Troll

Details

Playable RaceHorde

Driven from their jungle homeland by rival tribes, the Darkspear trolls found allies in the mighty Horde.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionHorde

Model keyTroll

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 (5)

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

What Each Racial Does

Beast Slaying
Experience gains from killing Beasts increased by 20%.
Berserking
Increases your haste by 10% for 12 sec.
Da Voodoo Shuffle
Reduces the duration of all movement impairing effects by 20%. Trolls be flippin' out mon!
Regeneration
Health regeneration rate increased by 10%. 10% of total Health regeneration may continue during combat.

4 of the 5 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 Troll under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 14 distinct appearance options for Troll, 14 on Body Type 1 and 14 on Body Type 2, worth 337 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 179 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 158 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 31 settings.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Tusks, Eye Color, Face Paint, Face Paint Color, Earrings, Piercing, Body Paint and Body Paint Color.

Face10
Skin Color26
Hair Style18
Hair Color26
Tusks10
Eye Color31
Face Paint10
Face Paint Color21
Earrings6
Piercing3
Body Paint4
Body Paint Color7
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 Troll

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 5,101 Troll characters, the 13th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Druid (1,442, 28%), Shaman (811, 16%), Hunter (789, 15%), Warrior (464, 9%) and Mage (449, 9%).
10 different classes appear on Troll characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 71% male and 29% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 268 ranked runs were set by Troll characters, the deepest key among them a plus 13 and the best Mythic Plus rating 2,848.

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.