WoW Forever Skyborne Race Guide

Horde or Alliance

The Skyborne share one ancestry but disagree about their future, so each character picks a side at creation. According to Blizzard's panel recap, Horde-aligned Skyborne embrace elemental traditions, while Alliance-aligned Skyborne pursue the arcane legacy of their ancestors. That choice decides their extra class and one of their racials.

Wowhead reports the variant names from the BlizzCon demo: High Order Skyborne for the Alliance and Windshaper Skyborne for the Horde. reported

Skyborne classes

Five classes on each side, confirmed by Blizzard. Druids get new Skyborne druid forms made for the race.

Class	Alliance	Horde
Warrior	✓Available	✓Available
Hunter	✓Available	✓Available
Rogue	✓Available	✓Available
Shaman	—Not available	✓Available
Mage	✓Available	—Not available
Druid	✓Available	✓Available

Skyborne (Alliance)5 classes

WarriorHunterRogueMageDruid

Skyborne (Horde)5 classes

WarriorHunterRogueShamanDruid

Compare every race in race and class combinations.

Skyborne racials

From the BlizzCon demo, reported by Warcraft Tavern. Walk on Air, Wind Blessed and Elemental Insight are shared; Alliance Skyborne get Read Ley Line and Horde Skyborne get Skysight. Every race's racials are in WoW Forever racial abilities.

Skyborne (Alliance)

Racial	Type	Effect
Walk on Air New	Active	Instant, 2 min cooldown. Glide downward through the air for 10 sec while controlling your direction of travel.
Read Ley Line New	Active	2 sec cast, 2 min cooldown. Attempt to tap into the power of a nearby ley line, increasing your Health and Mana regeneration by 100%. Lasts 15 sec if no ley line is nearby, and 15 min if one is found.
Wind Blessed New	Passive	Increases your spellcasting, melee, and ranged Haste by 1%.
Elemental Insight New	Passive	Damage dealt versus Elementals increased by 5%.

Walk on Air NewActive

Instant, 2 min cooldown. Glide downward through the air for 10 sec while controlling your direction of travel.

Read Ley Line NewActive

2 sec cast, 2 min cooldown. Attempt to tap into the power of a nearby ley line, increasing your Health and Mana regeneration by 100%. Lasts 15 sec if no ley line is nearby, and 15 min if one is found.

Wind Blessed NewPassive

Increases your spellcasting, melee, and ranged Haste by 1%.

Elemental Insight NewPassive

Damage dealt versus Elementals increased by 5%.

Skyborne (Horde)

Racial	Type	Effect
Walk on Air New	Active	Instant, 2 min cooldown. Glide downward through the air for 10 sec while controlling your direction of travel.
Skysight New	Active	0.5 sec cast, 2 min cooldown. Attempt to draw power from a convergence of elements and receive its blessing, increasing your movement and mounted movement speeds by 10%. Lasts 30 sec if no elemental convergence is nearby, and 15 min if one is found.
Wind Blessed New	Passive	Increases your spellcasting, melee, and ranged Haste by 1%.
Elemental Insight New	Passive	Damage dealt versus Elementals increased by 5%.

Walk on Air NewActive

Instant, 2 min cooldown. Glide downward through the air for 10 sec while controlling your direction of travel.

Skysight NewActive

0.5 sec cast, 2 min cooldown. Attempt to draw power from a convergence of elements and receive its blessing, increasing your movement and mounted movement speeds by 10%. Lasts 30 sec if no elemental convergence is nearby, and 15 min if one is found.

Wind Blessed NewPassive

Increases your spellcasting, melee, and ranged Haste by 1%.

Elemental Insight NewPassive

Damage dealt versus Elementals increased by 5%.

Starting zone: Zephras Isle

Skyborne characters begin on Zephras Isle, which Blizzard describes as an elemental, skybound starting experience for levels 1 through 12, blending Classic Warcraft aesthetics with architecture inspired by Skywall. Access to the race and to Zephras Isle come together in every Skyborne pack.

How to unlock the Skyborne

The race isn't included in the base game. Any of the three optional upgrades unlocks it:

• Skyborne Heroic Pack: the race and Zephras Isle, early name reservation, a mount and cosmetics.
• Skyborne Epic Pack: everything in the Heroic Pack, plus beta access and 30 days of Game Time.
• Warcraft Forever Collection: everything in the Epic Pack, plus Warcraft III: Reforged and more, on sale until Jan 11, 2027.

Warcraft Tavern reports the Battle.net Shop prices as $29.99, $59.99 and $79.99. Full comparison: WoW Forever price, editions and subscription.

Still unknown

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