Worgen

Details

Playable RaceAlliance

A curse turned the humans of Gilneas into savage worgen, who harness their ferocity to aid their allies.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionAlliance

Model keyWorgen

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 (10)

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

What Each Racial Does

Aberration
Reduces Shadow and Nature damage taken by 1%.
Altered Form
Enables Worgens to switch between human and Worgen forms
Calm the Wolf
Activate to control your worgen instincts and automatically assume human form when you leave combat.
Darkflight
Activates your true form, increasing current movement speed by an additional 40% for 10 sec.
Flayer
Increases your Skinning Skill by 5 and Deftness by 25%. Deftness allows you to skin more quickly.
Running Wild
Drop to all fours to run as fast as a wild animal.
Two Forms
Turn into your currently inactive form.
Viciousness
Increases critical strike chance by 1%.

8 of the 9 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 Rogue as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Worgen under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.
Human (row 1) is the form this race wears out of combat.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 8 distinct appearance options for Worgen, 8 on Body Type 1 and 7 on Body Type 2, worth 264 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 128 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 136 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 45 settings.
Body Type 1 is the only one with Facial Hair.
Both bodies share Face, Fur Color, Hair Style, Ears, Eye Color, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face19
Fur Color20
Hair Style13
Facial Hair12
Ears12
Eye Color45
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 Worgen

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 2,550 Worgen characters, the 19th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Druid (751, 29%), Death Knight (406, 16%), Warrior (319, 13%), Hunter (295, 12%) and Rogue (266, 10%).
9 different classes appear on Worgen characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 77% male and 23% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 196 ranked runs were set by Worgen characters, the deepest key among them a plus 14 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,070.

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.