The Most Popular Races in World of Warcraft in 2025

[Enrif]

Both Night Elf and Blood Elf males have the best proportioned bodies for gear, they just look super cool and great in armor, specifically Mail and Plate transmogs.

Human males look fat and bloated.

Blood Elves look awful in armor, their idle stance makes it even worse.

Female Orcs are the best looking in armor of any kind

[Al Gorefiend]

Blood Elves look awful in armor, their idle stance makes it even worse.

Female Orcs are the best looking in armor of any kind

I prefer male Zandi, fem orc is good too.

[Capivara]

Both Night Elf and Blood Elf males have the best proportioned bodies for gear, they just look super cool and great in armor, specifically Mail and Plate transmogs.

Human males look fat and bloated.

Blood Elf looks DISGUSTING in any amor that is not cloth.

human, and goblin ( completely unpopular opinion i know) look great, people just hate to be short.

[Enrif]

I prefer male Zandi, fem orc is good too.

from a stance point, male zandalari are pretty good. Only feet, and if you want a helm, the tusk are a bit iffy. That's why i rate fem orcs so high, they can weary anything with out issue. If we ever get orc or mag'har paladins, one of my alts will be a fem orc/mag'har paladin

[Zorachus]

Blood Elves look awful in armor, their idle stance makes it even worse.

Female Orcs are the best looking in armor of any kind

Good point. On the TWW, launch I made my first ever Orc female Warrior. I typically have always played Night Elves or Blood Elves

But wow the female Orc looks amazing in plate Transmog, maybe my fav actually.

[allegrian]

I prefer male Zandi, fem orc is good too.

Male Zandi is unplayable for me due to its horrible running animation.

[Al Gorefiend]

Male Zandi is unplayable for me due to its horrible running animation.

Valid. Feel this way about male pandas.

Fempans are one of few races I play body type 2

[Enrif]

Valid. Feel this way about male pandas.

Fempans are one of few races I play body type 2

female pandaren have amazing animations. Just wish transmog would look better on them

[Alanar]

Blood Elf looks DISGUSTING in any amor that is not cloth.

human, and goblin ( completely unpopular opinion i know) look great, people just hate to be short.

Such a funny thing opinions.

Most humanoid races just look fine, people are being dramatic. If pieces are stretched or cramped then sure thats horrible. See kul tiran, male pandaren, gnomes and goblins for example.(sorry)

I think blood elf and zanda (not talking animations) gear sits fine, great even. No weird shoulder floating or realy bad clipping issues, is what I would consider "looks good"

[Cheezits]

Blood Elf idle lean drives me up the wall.

[Mace]

This is correct.

This is exactly what I wanted out of Earthen.

I can dig out the post I made like 12 years ago during WoD of a political group of Wildhammer Dwarves becoming Horde because Dark Irons are joining the Alliance (Blood in the Snow). I mused how badly I want a Horde dwarf.

We only kinda got Horde dwarves, I think Earthen are the lamest and most boring race by purposeful design (seriously.. emotionless robots?) but I like having a dwarf model to select on Horde. Dwarf is the best plate wearing race and I wanted a prot warrior armored to the teeth.

Earthen are another example how they couldn’t be bothered or didn’t want to create serious lore for faction distinctiveness. Easy to do.

It’s like warlock new class combos. - it’s a personal choice. The exciting things they could have done for Draenei for example, like making only those man’ari former legion ones could be warlocks and so having specialised customisation that reflects the fel usage or for night elves where night elves go join the Illidari, hero idolising Illidan, as well as appreciating the effectiveness of using fel to accomplish a good result where ultimately Elune , the arcane and nature - the traditional Kaldorei powers and followings all failed to prevent the genocide. There would be cadre of new night elves receuits to the Illidari ranks as warlocks and demon hunters , also opening the DH customisations to the warlock class , giving it something meaningful.

Sadly they’re not interested in fostering the role playing the entire game is based on.

They should do more to make these events engaging, appealing and diverse. But more and more, the bare minimum is done, even when much more could be done with a little more effort.

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Well, vulpera are still the second most popular Horde allied race other than Zandalari trolls. And they have a unique skeleton and animations, they truly are one of Warcraft's recent most creative ideas.

They use to be the most popular at one point, and by some margin if I’m not mistaken. Maybe it was a fad for having a cute furry class.

Curious as to why the drop to second place. People not like their racial? Or the kids grew up.