Pandaren

Details

Playable RaceAlliance

A spiritual and inquisitive people, the pandaren have a deep love for cooking, brewing, and adventure.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionAlliance

Client factionWaveblade Ankoan (Paragon)

Model keyPandaren

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 - Pandaren, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Bouncy
You take half falling damage.
Epicurean
Your love of food allows you to receive 100% more of the stats from Well Fed effects.
Gourmand
Your Cooking skill is increased by 5.
Inner Peace
You earn twice as much rested experience.
Quaking Palm
Strikes the target with lightning speed, incapacitating them for 4 sec, and turns off your attack.

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 Monk as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Pandaren under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.
Pandaren (row 24) is the neutral row this one splits off from.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 12 distinct appearance options for Pandaren, 9 on Body Type 1 and 9 on Body Type 2, worth 249 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 130 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 119 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 30 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Mustache, Beard and Eyebrows.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Hair Color, Earrings and Tail.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Eye Color, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face21
Skin Color18
Hair Style22
Mustache7
Beard20
Eyebrows5
Eye Color30
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 Pandaren

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 3,628 Pandaren characters, the 15th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Monk (1,848, 51%), Shaman (438, 12%), Priest (313, 9%), Death Knight (248, 7%) and Mage (213, 6%).
9 different classes appear on Pandaren characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 61% male and 39% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 195 ranked runs were set by Pandaren characters, the deepest key among them a plus 15 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,147.

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.