Starting a Human in WoW

There are thirteen races in World of Warcraft, thanks to the most recent expansion Mists of Pandaria introducing the Pandarian race. The one we are going to focus on in this post is the Human race. You can choose to be male or female, select your skin color, face, hair style, hair color, and piercings. This helps to make the character look the way the player wishes whether it be similar to the real life player or a fantasy character the player chooses to play.

What Classes Can You Be As a Human?

Aside from the basic characteristic changes that can be made, you can choose to be any of the following classes:

• Warrior
• Paladin
• Hunter
• Rogue
• Priest
• Mage
• Warlock
• Monk *MOP only
• Death Knight *must have an account with an existing level 55 or higher. This class automatically starts you out at level 55.

Humans have racial abilities that allow them to have increased Spirit, bonus reputation gains, increased expertise with swords and maces, and they can break out of speed altering and trapping effects.

Each of these abilities can be used in certain classes such as the increased spirit for priests or the increased expertise with swords for warriors. The ability to break out of speed altering and trapping effects is a great asset to playing PVP (player-versus-player).

Starting Location for Humans

The Human race starts out in Northshire Valley which is located in Elwynn Forest. Each “country”has it’s own name with several locations.Leveling 1-10 for a Human will be done in Elwynn forest. The major city for the Alliance, Stormwind, is also located in Elwynn Forest along with Goldshire, another popular Human location.

Normally when leveling a Human of any class you will follow this path:

Elwynn Forest (1-10)
Westfall (10-15) R
edridge Mountains (15-20)
Duskwood (20-25)
Northern Stranglethorn Vale (25-30)
Southern Stranglethorn Vale (30-35)

All of these locations are at the bottom of Eastern Kingdoms, the continent that is home to Stormwind and the Human starting area. If you follow the quest line it will take you from place to place, however for those on private servers you might level out of the area with a few quests, but for Blizzard Servers and Servers with 1x rates, it will take you through each place while leveling.