All the features of the new Earthen Allied Race in The War Within

The War Within will be focusing on the Earthen race in its story campaign, with the first two zones largely centered around them. As announced alongside World of Warcraft‘s newest expansion, players will unlock the Earthen as an Allied Race for both the Alliance and Horde.

As The War Within is currently in early beta these features should be considered a work in progress and many numerical values have not been set or could be adjusted before go-live. However, there’s already plenty of information regarding playable classes and racial abilities. Here’s everything we know about the Earthen Allied Race so far.

How to unlock Earthen

You won’t be able to roll an Earthen as soon as The War Within launches: you’ll have to level a character to 80 and finish the following campaign and quests to recruit the Earthen:

• The War Within storyline:
  • Against the Current
  • News from Below
  • A Light in the Dark
  • Ties that Bind
  • The Machines March to War
• Level-up campaign, Beginning Anew from Rock Bottom
• Help Machinist Kittrin mend broken tools for Reforged Purpose
• Construct pottery with Hreka for Hope, An Anomaly
• Help Urtago and Korgran perform a ceremony for As He Departs
• Help Urtago at Fallside Outpost take on her new role in The Weight of Duty

Like other Allied Races, the Earthen will start their leveling experience at level 10 most likely in the Earthen capital city of Dornogal before venturing to the capital cities of Stormwind or Orgrimmar, depending on which faction you’ve selected. There is also Heritage Armor available after you’ve leveled a fresh Earthen from 10 to 50 to unlock.

Earthen classes

The following classes will be available to the Earthen:

• Hunter
• Mage
• Monk
• Paladin
• Priest
• Rogue
• Shaman
• Warlock
• Warrior

Earthen Paladins will have a new ram mount modeled after those found on the Isle of Dorn for their charger and divine steed, and Shaman will have a new unique set of Earthen-specific totems.

Earthen racial abilities

The racial abilities for Earthen include the first non-Evoker empowered ability and a complete rejection of food! The full list of abilities are:

• Azerite Surge — An empowered spell with three levels. The default first level is a Fire AOE, the second level adds a heal to nearby allies, and fully empowered does additional damage to the highest health enemy in range.
• Ingest Minerals — Earthen are always Well Fed, but cannot consume Food or Water. Consuming a gem provides a Well Fed stat buff based on the gem:
  • Amber: Stamina
  • Emerald: Haste
  • Onyx: Mastery
  • Ruby: Critical Strike
  • Sapphire: Versatility
• Quiet Contemplation — because Earthen aren’t able to consume Food or Water, they have an ability Quiet Contemplation that can be used out of combat to restore health and mana, with no cooldown on usage.
• Hyper Productive — Earthen get a Finesse bonus of 2%, increasing the chance for additional materials when using a gathering professions such as Herbalism, Mining, or Skinning.
• Titan-Wrought Frame — The Base Armor from equipped items will be increased by 10% for Earthen. It is unlikely this number is significant enough that Mythic Raiders will be race-changing all Tanks to Earthen, but we’ll see.
• Wide-Eyed Wonder — Additional 200% experience from exploration. When leveling your Earthen you’ll want to make sure you don’t use the Warband Map to Everything Everywhere All at Once.

While it’s still early the Earthen look like they’ll be a solid addition to the roster of Allied Races, especially for the Horde who have been deprived of a Dwarf or Dwarf-adjacent faction until now.

Originally published April 22. Updated September 10.