Mechagnome

Details

Playable RaceAlliance

The clever mechagnomes strive to balance flesh with technology, making them innovative allies.

PlayableYes

Starting level10

FactionAlliance

Model keyMechagnome

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 (6)

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

What Each Racial Does

Combat Analysis
You gather and analyze combat data every 5 sec, increasing your primary stat by 5, stacking up to 10 times. The data decays while out of combat.
Emergency Failsafe
When you fall below 20% health, heal for 15% of your maximum health. This effect cannot occur more than once every 150 sec.
Hyper Organic Light Originator
Summon Organic Light duplicates to distract your foes for 15 sec.
Mastercraft
You function as a personal Blacksmithing Anvil, Cooking Fire, and Mining Forge. In addition, your limbs include every profession tool.
Skeleton Pinkie
Allows opening of locked chests and doors that require a skill level of up to.

5 of the 6 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 Warrior as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Mechagnome under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 12 distinct appearance options for Mechagnome, 12 on Body Type 1 and 11 on Body Type 2, worth 236 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 120 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 116 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 34 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Facial Hair.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Modification, Eye Color, Arm Upgrade, Leg Upgrade, Paint, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face14
Skin Color14
Hair Style7
Hair Color8
Facial Hair6
Modification20
Eye Color34
Arm Upgrade4
Leg Upgrade2
Paint4
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.

Unlocking Mechagnome

Mechagnome is one of the client's allied races, which means the race is earned on an existing account rather than offered at the start.
The achievement that opens it is Allied Races: Mechagnome: Earn the allegiance of the mechagnomes and welcome them into the Alliance. It is worth 10 achievement points.
Blizzard's own recruitment line reads: Then visit the Stormwind Embassy to recruit this Allied Race.

Who Is Playing Mechagnome

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 696 Mechagnome characters, the 26th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Hunter (132, 19%), Monk (103, 15%), Mage (97, 14%), Priest (81, 12%) and Rogue (78, 11%).
8 different classes appear on Mechagnome characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 72% male and 28% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 29 ranked runs were set by Mechagnome characters, the deepest key among them a plus 15 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,130.

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.