Zandalari Troll

Details

Playable RaceHorde

The Zandalari revere their mystical loa and command one of Azeroth's most formidable fleets.

PlayableYes

Starting level10

FactionHorde

Model keyZandalariTroll

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 - Zandalari Troll, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

City of Gold
Increases gold earned from creatures by 2%.
Embrace of the Loa
Choose your Loa.
Pterrordax Swoop
Reduces your falling speed for 2 min.
Regeneratin'
Regenerate 50% of your maximum health over 6 sec, interrupted by direct damage.

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 Zandalari 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 13 distinct appearance options for Zandalari Troll, 11 on Body Type 1 and 13 on Body Type 2, worth 189 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 94 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 95 of those settings.
Eye Color is the widest single slider at 24 settings.
Body Type 2 is the only one with Earrings and Necklace.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Tattoo, Tusks, Piercings, Eye Color, Ear Gauge, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face6
Skin Color8
Hair Style12
Hair Color17
Tattoo4
Tusks7
Piercings6
Eye Color24
Ear Gauge3
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.

Unlocking Zandalari Troll

Zandalari Troll is one of the client's allied races, which means the race is earned on an existing account rather than offered at the start.
The achievement that opens it is Allied Races: Zandalari Troll: Earn the allegiance of the Zandalari Trolls and welcome them into the Horde. It is worth 10 achievement points.
Blizzard's own recruitment line reads: Then visit the Orgrimmar Embassy to recruit this Allied Race.

Who Is Playing Zandalari Troll

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 3,047 Zandalari Troll characters, the 17th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Druid (815, 27%), Paladin (709, 23%), Shaman (417, 14%), Death Knight (241, 8%) and Warrior (206, 7%).
11 different classes appear on Zandalari Troll characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 87% male and 13% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 169 ranked runs were set by Zandalari Troll characters, the deepest key among them a plus 15 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,231.

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.