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By: Jarno Kokko Oct 28, 2009

World of Warcraft Character Race Change Available

Bored of playing as a (female) Blood Elf that seemed such a great idea at the time? Blizzard already added Faction Change as a way you could defect to the Alliance and that way your character race would also be changed. Still, some of us would prefer to stay Horde. Solution has arrived - for a "cheap" fee of $25/€20/£15 you can now change your race in World of Warcraft through the account services page.

The Race Change service lets you change a character's race to another race within their faction. The full range of customization options offered by the Character Re-Customization service is included as well. Each race change costs $25.00 USD.

Things to know before you start:

Under normal conditions, a race change should be ready immediately after rendering payment and completing the steps in this process.
You can select a new character race only from those in the same faction that have the character's class available. You cannot change a character's class.
A character's current home city reputation level will switch values with their new home city, and their home city racial mounts will convert to those of their new race. Refer to the Race Change Translation Table for more details.
A realm transfer is not included in a race change.
A character can change races once every 3 days.
Please refer to the Character Race Change FAQ for answers to common questions about this service.

The obvious catch is that you can only change to a race that is available to your class. This means, sorry, Blood Elf paladins are still stuck for now. To become a Holy Cow (Tauren Paladin - obviously) or something equally hilarious you'll have to wait for Cataclysm which is going to bring a wider list of class/race combinations and then go for a race change.

It is expected that when World of Warcraft: Cataclysm arrives, Goblins and Worgens will not be available through this service for some time to give people an incentive to level up a fresh character or two.