Forever is introducing a brand-new playable race, the Skyborne, and it comes in two variants depending on which faction you're rolling: Alliance players get the High Order Skyborne, while Horde players get the Windshaper Skyborne. Both share the same base kit, but each side gets one racial ability that's genuinely its own.
Skyborne Racials
Every Skyborne, regardless of faction, gets these three:
- Walk on Air — glide downward through the air for 10 seconds, functionally a built-in slow fall.
- Wind Blessed (passive) — 1% increased Haste across melee, ranged, and spellcasting.
- Elemental Insight (passive) — 5% increased damage dealt to Elementals.
Where the two variants split is their fourth racial:
- High Order Skyborne (Alliance) get Read Ley Line, which taps into a ley line for 100% increased Health and Mana regeneration.
- Windshaper Skyborne (Horde) get Skysight instead, an Elemental Blessing that grants 10% increased run speed.
Read Ley Line reads as more of a sustain/downtime cooldown, while Skysight is a flat mobility boost — worth keeping in mind if a racial pick factors into your character planning at all.
Racial Reworks for Existing Races
A handful of existing racials are also getting reworked alongside Skyborne's arrival:
- Cultivation (Tauren) is changing from its current form into a passive that grows bonus herbs without needing Herbalism to gather them — meaning Tauren without the profession will still see some herb nodes sprout from Cultivation.
- Axe Specialization (Orc) is moving from an axe damage bonus to a Critical Chance bonus with axes instead.
- Expansive Mind (Gnome) is switching from its old effect to a straightforward increase to maximum resource (mana, rage, energy, etc., depending on class).
- Eureka! is an entirely new Gnome racial alongside that Expansive Mind change: it reduces the cost of, and adds a 10% damage/healing bonus to, your next 3 spells or abilities.
None of this is live yet - Forever is still in active development - but it's a solid look at how race identity is shaping up for both the new Skyborne and a few of the older races getting a refresh.