Orc

🛡️ Identity

Brought to Azeroth through the Dark Portal and once enslaved by the Burning Legion's bloodlust, the Orcs broke their demonic curse and forged a new destiny under Thrall. Honor-bound and fiercely strong, they are the founding people of the Horde and the embodiment of its warrior spirit, valuing strength, loyalty, and freedom above all.

⚔️ Racial Abilities

• Blood Fury — Instantly increases your attack power and spell power for 15 seconds — a strong on-use damage cooldown that lines up with your other burst windows. Scales with level. (2 min cooldown)
• Hardiness — Reduces the duration of Stun effects by an additional amount. A passive that softens crowd control, valued highly in PvP and against stun mechanics. (Passive)
• Command — Increases the damage dealt by your Death Knight, Hunter, and Warlock pets. A passive throughput bonus for pet-based specs. (Passive)

📈 Min-Max Analysis

• Raid — Blood Fury is the draw — an on-demand attack-power and spell-power burst on a short cooldown that stacks neatly into your major DPS windows, giving Orc one of the best active throughput racials in the game. Command adds extra damage for pet specs, and Hardiness is largely idle in PvE.
• Mythic+ — Blood Fury syncs with burst cooldowns to spike priority kills and pull damage in Mythic+, while Hardiness can shorten a dangerous stun affix or mechanic. Pet-using DPS gain a steady bump from Command across the dungeon.
• PvP — Hardiness is the headline PvP racial — reduced stun duration means you spend less time locked out during enemy kill attempts, a powerful, long-standing survival edge. Blood Fury then provides a reliable on-demand burst to land your own kills, and Command boosts pet specs' pressure.

🎓 Playable Classes

Warrior · Hunter · Rogue · Priest · Death Knight · Shaman · Mage · Warlock · Monk