Goblin

Details

Playable RaceHorde

Always inventive and often reckless, goblins are known as skilled engineers and talented merchants.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionHorde

Model keyGoblin

Read from ChrRaces in the current retail client build. The name forms, starting level and model key are the client's own fields; the portraits and body model are the client's own art; the racials come from the client's "Racial" skill line.

Racial Abilities (7)

Each one is a real spell in the current build. The client groups them as Racial - Goblin, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Best Deals Anywhere
Always receive the best possible gold discount, regardless of faction.
Better Living Through Chemistry
Alchemy skill increased by 5.
Pack Hobgoblin
Calls in your friend, Gobber, allowing you bank access for 1 min.
Rocket Barrage
Launches your belt rockets at an enemy, dealing fire damage.
Rocket Jump
Activates your rocket belt to jump forward. Other effects which slow the rate of falling cannot be used within 10 sec after using this ability.
Time is Money
Cash in on a 1% increase to haste.

6 of the 7 racial abilities the client teaches this race carry tooltip text in the current build. The rest are passive hooks with no description of their own.

In the Character Creator

The client's own ChrRaces row names Rogue as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Goblin under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 13 distinct appearance options for Goblin, 13 on Body Type 1 and 13 on Body Type 2, worth 322 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 160 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 162 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 30 settings.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Eye Color, Chin, Ears, Earrings, Nose, Nose Ring, Jewelry Color and Eyesight.

Face10
Skin Color23
Hair Style22
Hair Color19
Eye Color30
Chin6
Ears10
Earrings9
Nose11
Nose Ring5
Jewelry Color8
Eyesight4
Eye Style3

Counted from the client's own ChrCustomizationOption and ChrCustomizationChoice records for this race's models. Blizzard labels the two records Body Type 1 and Body Type 2 in the creator itself.

Who Is Playing Goblin

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 1,984 Goblin characters, the 21st largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Priest (421, 21%), Shaman (339, 17%), Hunter (256, 13%), Warlock (244, 12%) and Rogue (231, 12%).
9 different classes appear on Goblin characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 68% male and 32% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 73 ranked runs were set by Goblin characters, the deepest key among them a plus 13 and the best Mythic Plus rating 2,665.

These are counts from our own rated PvP and Mythic Plus crawls, last refreshed 2026-09-20. They say who is playing the race right now. They are not the character creator's list of allowed classes: the client keeps that in CharBaseInfo, which this datamine does not carry, so a class missing from the list above only means nobody in the sample is playing it.