Race
Visage
Visage
Details
A mysterious people with an affinity for manipulating candles.
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 (19)
- Aerial Halt
- Awakened
- Battle Visage
- Chosen Identity
- Discerning Eye
- Empowered Soaring
- Expedited Takeoff
- Familiar Skies
- Glide
- Glide
- Languages
- Languages
- Principles of Soaring
- Skyward Ascent
- Soar
- Surge Forward
- Visage
- Visage
- Wing Buffet
Each one is a real spell in the current build. The client groups them as Racial - Dracthyr, where every rank and its tooltip lives.
What Each Racial Does
- Aerial Halt
Flap back, reducing forward movement.
- Battle Visage
Activate to automatically assume your Visage whenever you are not casting draconic spells such as Fire Breath and Soar.
- Chosen Identity
Activate to automatically assume your Visage when you leave combat.
- Discerning Eye
Increases your Perception by 2%. Perception increases your ability to spot rare reagents while gathering.
- Empowered Soaring
Your Soar is empowered after co-opting new flight techniques from the dragons of the Dragon Isles. Soar is now equivalent to dragonriding, granting access to vigor and all dragonriding abilities.
- Familiar Skies
Soar's cooldown is reduced by 1 min on continents that you have fully explored.
- Glide
Reduces your falling speed. You can activate this ability with the jump key while falling.
- Skyward Ascent
Flap upward, gaining height at the cost of some momentum. Max 1 Charge
- Soar
Muster your strength and launch into the air.
- Visage
Switch between your Dracthyr and Visage forms. Your Visage emanates magic, significantly increasing out-of-combat health regeneration for your party.
- Wing Buffet
With a powerful flap of your wings, knock away enemies in front of you.
11 of the 16 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
- Azeroth's bestiary files Visage under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.
- The row Dracthyr (row 52) wears this row as its out-of-combat form.
Appearance Options
- The character creator ships 29 distinct appearance options for Visage, 27 on Body Type 1 and 26 on Body Type 2, worth 476 individual settings between them.
- Body Type 1 alone carries 239 of those settings.
- Body Type 2 alone carries 237 of those settings.
- Hair Color is the widest single slider at 32 settings.
- Body Type 1 is the only one with Beard, Mustache and Chest Strap.
- Body Type 2 is the only one with Necklace and Chin.
- Both bodies share Skin Color, Face, Hair Style, Hair Color, Ears, Underclothes Bottom, Underclothes Top, Underclothes Color, Horns, Horn Color, Horn Jewelry and Jewelry Color.
- Skin Color9
- Face9
- Hair Style21
- Hair Color32
- Ears3
- Beard5
- Underclothes Bottom3
- Underclothes Top3
- Underclothes Color5
- Horns20
- Horn Color16
- Horn Jewelry4
- Jewelry Color5
- Mustache3
- Scale Pattern5
- Earrings9
- Headdress4
- Hair Decoration2
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.
Model
The Visage male body as the client builds it, rendered from the game files.

