My WOW Helper

Humans:

Classes available to humans:
Warrior
Paladin
Rogue
Priest
Mage
Warlock
Deathknight (only available if you have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion)

Human Racials:

Stealth Detection – this allows humans to detect stealthed mobs at a farther range than other races. This is useful if you are planning to PvP.

Increased Spirit – Spirit affects mana regeneration of priests. Spirit also affects the spellpower of warlocks and priests, and the critical chance of Mages at higher levels. This increases your spirit by 3%.

Bonus to Reputation Gains – Getting reputation with the different factions can take a long time in wow and being human can shorten this for you. Humans get an extra 10% reputation when completing quests or killing mobs that give reputation with factions.

Increased expertise with swords and maces – This will increase your expertise by 3 for both one-handed and two-handed swords and maces. Expertise decreases the chance your attacks will be dodged or parried. This helps classes that use these types of weapons such as warriors, paladins, rogues, and deathknights.

Every Man for Himself – This removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. This is useful in PvE in certain situations and very useful if you are planning to PvP. This ability has a cooldown and can only be used once every 2 minutes

Gnomes:

Classes available to Gnomes:
Warrior
Rogue
Mage
Warlock
Deathknight (only available if you have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion)

Gnome Racials:

Escape Artist – This allows you to remove all movement impairing effects. It is an ability with a cooldown so you can only use it every 1.75min

Expanisve Mind – Increases Intellect by 5%

Engineering Specialization – adds 15 to your engineering skill if you have that profession.

Arcane Resistance – Reduces the chance you will be hit by arcane spells by 2%

The purpose of this post is to go through the races of WoW so you understand what the racials do for your character and which races can play which class.

The races in WoW are split into 2 factions and these 2 factions cannot communicate with one another. The factions are Alliance and Horde. The main thing to think about when choosing a faction is if your friends play one faction, it would be best if you choose the same so you can talk to them.

First and foremost about choosing a race is choosing the one you want to play. Even though each race has racials that may help a certain class, the benefits are not really that large so you can really play whatever you want.

Alliance Races:
Humans
Gnomes
Night Elves
Dwarves
Draenei (only available if you have the Burning Crusade expansion)

Horde Races:
Orcs
Trolls
Tauren
Undead
Blood Elves (only available if you have the Burning Crusade expansion)