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WoW SoD: All Classes and Race Combinations for WoW Classic Season of Discovery

A list of all race and class combinations for WoW Classic Season of Discovery.

While there aren’t as many options as in Retail WoW, you might be unsure about what to play in Vanilla WoW, especially since racial abilities and class skills have changed throughout the expansions. Here’s a list of all race and class combinations in WoW Classic Season of Discovery and Hardcore.

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All Class and Race Combos for World of Warcraft Classic: Season of Discovery

Unlike modern WoW, Classic limits you to four race options in each faction. However, no race has more than six class options, and most have only five choices.

You’ll notice that some classes are faction-specific. You can only play a Paladin as a member of the Alliance, and you can only be a Shaman on the Horde. It wasn’t until Burning Crusade that this changed, with Blood Elves bringing Paladin to the Horde and Draenei bringing Shaman to the Alliance.

While there aren’t as many classes as you might be used to, I don’t feel that the list is particularly lacking, and there’s certainly something for each playstyle here. There are still multiple options for each role, too, so you can find what suits you the best.

Use these links to jump down to each section quickly:

Alliance

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Dwarf

  • Warrior
  • Paladin
  • Hunter
  • Rogue
  • Priest

Gnome

  • Warrior
  • Rogue
  • Mage
  • Warlock

Human

  • Warrior
  • Paladin
  • Rogue
  • Priest
  • Mage
  • Warlock

Night Elf

  • Warrior
  • Hunter
  • Rogue
  • Priest
  • Druid

Horde

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Orc

  • Warrior
  • Hunter
  • Rogue
  • Shaman
  • Warlock

Tauren

  • Warrior
  • Hunter
  • Shaman
  • Druid

Troll

  • Warrior
  • Hunter
  • Rogue
  • Priest
  • Shaman
  • Mage

Undead

  • Warrior
  • Rogue
  • Priest
  • Mage
  • Warlock

And that covers our list of all the class and race combinations in WoW Classic Season of Discovery. They might not be how you remember, but finding runes lets you learn abilities from your class in modern WoW, which makes the experience unique compared to playing on regular Classic servers. To do so, check our WoW Classic guides hub and WoW Season of Discovery guides hub to find topics like a list of all Mage runes or how to get the Hound Jawbone.


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Melissa Sarnowski
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Melissa Sarnowski has been working as a gaming writer professionally for two years, having been at GameSkinny for over a year now as a horror beat writer. She has an English degree from University of Wisconsin - Madison. While she focuses on all things horror, she also enjoys cozy games, MMOs like FFXIV and WoW, and any and everything in between.