Allied Race

The latest Allied Races, Kul Tiran humans and Zandalari trolls, are coming to World of Warcraft in patch 8.1.5, but you won't get them automatically.

In patch 8.5.1, Horde players will finally be able to unlock the Zandalari as an Allied Race -- here's how to make that happen.

In patch 8.1.5, Alliance players will finally be able to unlock the Kul Tirans as an Allied Race -- here's how to make that happen.

What if one life was lost that should have continued?

There was an IGN stream at this year's E3 with World of Warcraft Production Director John Hight, and a slip of the tongue made there has gained so much traction that Ion Hazzikostas had to deny it on last Thursday's live Q&A on the Warcraft Twitch channel.

And man, is it weird and spooky and awesome.

Death Knights are in an interesting space right now.

It’s not a secret that I was both very happy with and very disappointed with Warlords of Draenor. I felt, and I still feel, that the 90 to 100 game was nearly perfect — the premise was executed well, it was easy to follow considering it was an alternate timeline we were visiting, the voice acting was superb. The cracks only started to show once I hit level 100 and it felt like there wasn’t anything else to do once I got there. We never got to see the zone I was the most excited about, for example. Farahlon never made it to the live game, and we never even tried to explore the southern continent on the original Draenor maps Blizzard produced for Warlords.

Time has, to a degree, vindicated Warlords — without it, we wouldn’t have had Legion, and this has been exactly what we needed from an expansion. I’m a bit leery that Battle for Azeroth has some huge shoes to fill in that regard. But as of right now, I’m sitting here remembering Warlords of Draenor and how that expansive, broad, astonishing world ended up not quite measuring up. Maybe it couldn’t. Maybe my expectations were too high.

Let’s talk about stuff.

Battle for Azeroth will feature at least eight new Allied Races — four of which you have access to as soon as you pre-order the expansion, and another four that will be released during the expansion itself.

We still don't know for sure if Kul Tiras Humans will be a playable Allied Race, but with each new alpha build, it seems more and more likely.