Skyborne guide: classes, Zephras Isle, Attuned and Charged

Skyborne cannot be Paladins, Priests or Warlocks. All ten pairings are new, which makes the Skyborne the race with the most new combinations.

• Druids get their own Skyborne forms in blue, grey, green and white, and a different spirit in the Cat Form quest at 20 (see Druid forms). High Order Druids also learn Cure Poison through their own quest.
• High Order Mages train with the Alliance and learn Teleport: Darnassus at 30.
• Windshaper Shamans are the Horde's caster Skyborne; their first totem quest, Call of Earth, starts on the island.

Which race is best for each class, Skyborne included, is in Racials and the best race for every class.

Zephras Isle is the only place a Skyborne can start, and Skyborne are the only race that starts there. The island has over a hundred quests across three hubs and finishes with the story's confrontation at the Rohashi Spires.

The first quests in Thendal Grove teach your racials: Falling With Style for Walk on Air, then Reading the Leylines (High Order) or The Gift of Skysight (Windshaper), both at the standing stones north-east of the village. Do them: they show you what a ley line and a convergence look like.

At 12 the story puts you on a skycutter to the mainland: Dalaran and then Stormwind for the High Order, Mulgore and then Orgrimmar for the Windshapers. Every step, and the fast ways around the island, are in Leaving Zephras Isle.

Each order has one racial that works anywhere but gets much stronger at a place of power. High Order read ley lines; Windshapers draw on elemental convergences. The first ones stand at the standing stones of Thendal Grove; after the island you find them in most zones of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor.

The routine that works: whenever your route passes a ley line or a convergence, cast your racial there to refresh the hour, then use it on cooldown. Read Ley Line while Attuned doubles your regeneration between pulls; Skysight while Charged is 30% speed for every long run on foot.

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  High Order SkyborneNew
  • Walk on Air

    Glide for 10 seconds, every 90 seconds, steering as you go. Jump off a cliff instead of walking around it; it works in Druid forms too.

  • Read Leyline

    Less time eating and drinking, especially while Attuned.

  • Wind Blessed

    2% Haste on every cast, swing and shot, always on.

  • Elemental Insight

    5% more damage against Elementals, starting with the unruly spirits on Zephras Isle.

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  Windshaper SkyborneNew
  • Walk on Air

    The same glide.

  • Skysight

    Faster travel, and a way out of melee range.

Wind Blessed is a solid passive for any damage dealer or healer. What the Skyborne lack is a combat cooldown or a way out of control effects: no stun break like Human or Orc, no fear break like Undead. That makes them a comfortable leveling and PvE race and a weaker pick for competitive PvP.

The Skyborne race, and with it Zephras Isle, needs the Skyborne Heroic Pack or one of the bigger editions on top of your subscription or Game Time. Every other race only needs the subscription.

• Cerulean PrideclawHeroic Pack mount
• Ensemble: Shen'dorei Skyseer's GarbHeroic Pack appearance

Invite-A-Friend codes work from Nov 4 to Nov 11 and let a friend play without a subscription during launch week. Skyborne player models are high-definition only for now; a classic-style model and matching Druid forms follow in early 2027.