Night Elf

Details

Playable RaceAlliance

The mystical night elves defend the wilds of Azeroth against any who mean harm to nature.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionAlliance

Model keyNightElf

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 - Night Elf, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Elusiveness
Increases your speed while Prowl is active by 5%.
Nature Resistance
Reduces Nature damage taken by 1%.
Quickness
Increases your chance to dodge melee and ranged attacks by 2%, and your movement speed by 2%.
Shadowmeld
Activate to slip into the shadows, reducing the chance for enemies to detect your presence. Lasts until cancelled or upon moving. Any threat is restored versus enemies still in combat upon cancellation of this effect.
Touch of Elune
Increases your Haste by 1% during the night. Increases your Critical Strike by 1% during the day.
Wisp Spirit
Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing speed by 75%.

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

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 25 distinct appearance options for Night Elf, 20 on Body Type 1 and 22 on Body Type 2, worth 436 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 213 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 223 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 30 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Sideburns, Mustache and Beard.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Markings Color, Headdress, Earrings, Nose Ring and Necklace.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Horns, Blindfold, Eyebrows, Ears, Scars, Eye Color, Vines and Vine Color.

Face24
Skin Color27
Hair Style17
Hair Color19
Sideburns5
Mustache5
Beard8
Horns7
Blindfold12
Eyebrows9
Ears5
Scars6
Eye Color30
Vines2
Vine Color5
Tattoo11
Tattoo Color7
Markings7

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 Night Elf

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 46,177 Night Elf characters, the 1st largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Druid (13,258, 29%), Demon Hunter (7,679, 17%), Rogue (6,390, 14%), Hunter (5,139, 11%) and Priest (4,463, 10%).
10 different classes appear on Night Elf characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 71% female and 29% male.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 2,310 ranked runs were set by Night Elf characters, the deepest key among them a plus 17 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,553.

These are counts from our own rated PvP and Mythic Plus crawls, last refreshed 2026-09-21. 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.