Classes Overview

A class is your character's main adventuring style. It sets the abilities you learn, the weapons and armor you can use, which attributes matter to you, whether you fight in melee, at range or as a caster, and which group Class Roles: Tank, Healer, Damage you can take. It also carries a theme, from the warlock's dark arts to the paladin's Holy Light. Your choice of class is limited by your race, and each race offers its own set of classes.

Each class has three Specializations (the druid has four). Each one is a very different way to play the class, with its own abilities and usually its own role. At the level cap, collecting class sets is one way to grow stronger: wearing more pieces of a set gives set bonuses.

Roles and resources follow the official class pages; every class also has health. Click a class to read its own page.

• Plate: Warrior, Paladin and Death Knight.
• Mail: Hunter, Shaman and Evoker.
• Leather: Rogue, Monk, Druid and Demon Hunter.
• Cloth: Priest, Mage and Warlock.

Warriors, Paladins and Shamans can also use shields. Mage, Warlock, Rogue and Hunter are pure damage classes; Paladin, Monk and Druid can fill all three roles.

Nine classes have been in the game since launch. Four more came with expansions, and three of them are hero classes, which skip the first levels and begin with their own starting story.