Orc

Details

Playable RaceHorde

The mighty orcs came to Azeroth as conquerors, but now strive to reclaim their ancient honor and traditions.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionHorde

Model keyOrc

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 - Orc, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Blood Fury
Increases your attack power for 15 sec.
Command
Damage dealt by pets increased by 1%.
Hardiness
Duration of Stun effects reduced by an additional 20%.

3 of the 4 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 Orc under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 19 distinct appearance options for Orc, 18 on Body Type 1 and 14 on Body Type 2, worth 368 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 193 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 175 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 37 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Beard, Sideburns, Grime, Tusks and Upright.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Necklace.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Eye Color, Scars, Earrings, Nose Ring, Tattoo, War Paint, War Paint Color and Eyesight.

Face18
Skin Color35
Hair Style18
Hair Color20
Beard14
Sideburns9
Eye Color37
Scars4
Grime3
Earrings6
Nose Ring4
Tusks4
Tattoo4
War Paint4
War Paint Color4
Upright2
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 Orc

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 25,919 Orc characters, the 3rd largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Shaman (5,224, 20%), Hunter (4,273, 16%), Warrior (3,755, 14%), Death Knight (3,097, 12%) and Monk (3,039, 12%).
9 different classes appear on Orc characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 66% male and 34% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 1,666 ranked runs were set by Orc characters, the deepest key among them a plus 17 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,436.

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.