Skyborne Race Overview - Abilities & Classes

Skyborne are a new playable race in World of Warcraft: Forever. They are available to play as both Alliance and Horde. This guide will cover everything you need to know to get started playing a Skyborne character.

Gaining access to the Skyborne race requires purchasing one of the World of Warcraft Forever Skyborne Packs, which you can find at the official Blizzard website.

All Skyborne players begin their journey in the new area Zephras Isle, which is also included in the Skyborne Race Packs.

Zephras Isle is a starting experience zone with quests that scale up to level 13. Players can leave the zone and head to their respective faction’s capital cities via airship at any time. Alliance players are taken to Dalaran, and Horde players are dropped off near Thunder Bluff.

Skyborne players choose either Alliance or Horde on the character creation screen. This faction choice will affect your character’s racial bonuses and class options.

Skyborne have four racial bonuses, with one that varies based on faction choice.

• Walk on Air: A skill that grants 10 seconds of slow falling on a 90-second cooldown. You are able to slightly control your character while falling. 
• Wind Blessed: Grants a 2% increase to attack and cast speed at all times. This is a useful increase to damage, threat, and healing for players in all situations.
• Elemental Insight: Grants a 5% damage bonus against Elemental-type enemies. This bonus can occasionally be useful in dungeons and raids. It is very useful on the Zephras Isle, which has an unusually large number of elemental enemies for a starting zone.
• Read Ley Line (Alliance): Grants 50% increased life and mana regeneration for 15 seconds. If cast near a Ley Line, you gain the Attuned buff, which lasts for one hour and doubles the effect of Read Ley Line when cast. This bonus is very powerful for spellcasters and healers, but the 5-second mana regeneration penalty upon casting spells still applies. It can also provide useful out-of-combat life regeneration for Warriors and Rogues.
• Skysight (Horde): Grants 15% movement speed for 15 seconds. If cast near an Elemental Convergence, you gain the Charged buff, which lasts for one hour and doubles the effect of Skysight when cast. Movement speed is extremely important, and this is one of the few racial movement speed bonuses available in WoW Forever.

See how Skyborne abilities are ranked in our WoW: Forever Racials Tier List!

Skyborne characters have four classes available for both factions and one faction-specific class option:

• Warrior
• Hunter
• Rogue
• Druid
• Mage (Alliance)
• Shaman (Horde)

Skyborne players have a variety of choices for skin colors, hairstyles, hair colors, and eye colors. They are also able to customize jewelry, tattoos, and add feathers to their hair.

Below are more examples of customization options.

Skin tones:

Hairstyles:

Eye colors:

Feathers:

Galestriders are the Skyborne racial mounts. They can be purchased on Zephras Isle at levels 40 and 60.

Level 40 mounts:

Level 60 mounts: