Tauren

Details

Playable RaceHorde

The massive tauren serve their beloved Earth Mother and protect the balance of nature.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionHorde

Model keyTauren

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 - Tauren, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Brawn
Your critical strikes now deal 204% damage and healing instead of the usual 200%.
Cultivation
Increases your Herbalism Skill by 5 and Deftness by 25%. Deftness allows you to gather herbs more quickly.
Endurance
Increases your Stamina by (scales with level).
Nature Resistance
Reduces Nature damage taken by 1%.

4 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 Shaman as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Tauren 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 Tauren, 18 on Body Type 1 and 18 on Body Type 2, worth 309 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 160 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 149 of those settings.
Skin Color is the widest single slider at 32 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Facial Hair.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Earrings.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Horn Style, Horn Color, Foremane, Hair, Eye Color, Face Paint, Headdress, Nose Ring, Necklace and Jewelry Color.

Face10
Skin Color32
Horn Style21
Horn Color7
Foremane4
Hair11
Facial Hair13
Eye Color27
Face Paint4
Headdress3
Nose Ring5
Necklace3
Jewelry Color1
Flower2
Body Paint4
Paint Color6
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 Tauren

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 7,488 Tauren characters, the 8th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Druid (2,832, 38%), Paladin (1,957, 26%), Warrior (765, 10%), Shaman (749, 10%) and Death Knight (392, 5%).
11 different classes appear on Tauren characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 86% male and 14% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 454 ranked runs were set by Tauren characters, the deepest key among them a plus 17 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,459.

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.