Tauren

Tauren strive to keep the balance of nature and to follow the will of their goddess, the Earth Mother. They joined the Horde to honour a debt, and the friendship has held.

Faction: Horde
Class choices: 4 in the client
Home in lore: Mulgore, Thunder Bluff
Forever start: Not yet published by Blizzard

First choices

Class choices

From the published client snapshot, build 1.60.1.69977. A class marked new is one Blizzard names as a new combination for Forever.

Client build 1.60.1.69977 matches Blizzard’s 22 September class table for this race.

Racial traits

What the tauren bring

Names and descriptions are read from the client build 1.60.1.69977. Blizzard says some traits were updated for Forever, and its own wording from 22 September is shown underneath where the names match. Neither has been checked in game.

War StompClient and announcement
Stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yds for 2 sec.
Blizzard, 22 September: “Stuns nearby enemies for 2 seconds.”
EnduranceClient and announcement
Total Health increased by 5% and chance to hit increased by 1%.
Blizzard, 22 September: “Total Health increased by 5% and Hit Chance increased by 1%.”
CultivationClient and announcement
Cultivate a nearby herb, growing a duplicate you can harvest without requiring Herbalism skill. Each herb may only be cultivated once.
Blizzard, 22 September: “Grow bonus herbs that don’t require herbalism to gather.”
PlainsrunningClient and announcement
Gain 1% increased movement speed every 5 sec spent moving, up to a maximum of 30% increase. Taking damage or standing still will reduce this effect.
Blizzard, 22 September: “Gain increased movement speed the longer you stay moving.”

Place and people

Who the tauren are

“To honor this blood-debt, the tauren joined the Horde, solidifying the two races’ friendship.”
Blizzard, 22 September 2026

Blizzard’s 2020 Classic introduction calls the tauren spiritual and peaceful, a people who cultivate a kinship with the natural world in the name of the Earth Mother.

Blizzard’s race page gives their own name, shu’halo, and tells how the wandering tribes united and settled in their ancestral homeland of Mulgore. Their city, Thunder Bluff, was founded by the chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof on windswept mesas above the plains.

The great horned kodo of the Barrens belong to their story as well: gentle by nature, Blizzard says, but fierce when threatened.

Sources: Taking Your First Steps in World of Warcraft Classic (opens in a new tab), 27 February 2020; Blizzard's Tauren race page (undated, read 29 September 2026) (opens in a new tab); Create the Hero You Want to Be in World of Warcraft: Forever (opens in a new tab), 22 September 2026.

Their story

A debt of honour

Blizzard’s Forever introduction tells how murderous centaur attacked the tauren, who would have been wiped out but for a chance meeting with the orcs. The orcs helped them defeat the invaders.

To honour that blood-debt, the tauren joined the Horde. It is one of the quieter founding stories in the game: a peaceful people keeping a promise to strangers who helped them.

No credited tauren artwork is stored on this site yet, so this chapter uses our own drawing rather than borrowing an unrelated picture.

Sources: Create the Hero You Want to Be in World of Warcraft: Forever (opens in a new tab), 22 September 2026.

Beginning

Where the story begins

Starting area in Forever

Blizzard has not named a Forever starting area for the tauren in the sources we follow, so we do not name one. The maps below show the homeland in lore, not a confirmed first step.