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A detailed preview of Dark Iron Dwarves coming in Battle for Azeroth.

Dark Iron Dwarves

Welcome to our preview of Dark Iron Dwarves! The Allied Race is gated behind Battle for Azeroth content and won't be available before launch. Here you will learn more about racial abilities, playable classes, Heritage armor and customization options of the Allied Race!

Racial Abilities

  • Dungeon DelverDungeon Delver (Racial Passive) - While indoors, move 4% faster.
  • FirebloodFireblood (Instant, 2 min cooldown) - Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic, and bleed effects and increases your primary stat by 100 for each effect removed. Lasts 8 sec.
  • Forged in FlamesForged in Flames (Racial Passive) - Reduces damage taken from Physical attacks by 1%.
  • Mass ProductionMass Production (Racial Passive) - Items crafted by Blacksmithing are created twice as quickly.
  • Mole MachineMole Machine (Instant, 30 min cooldown) - While outdoors, summon a Mole Machine that tunnels through the earth.

Playable Classes

  • Hunter
  • Mage
  • Monk
  • Paladin
  • Priest
  • Rogue
  • Shaman
  • Warlock
  • Warrior

Heritage Armor

Level up an Allied Race character to 110 to receive special Heritage armor. The following screenshots are from the BlizzCon 2017 panel.

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Racial Mount

We currently have no information about the racial mount.

Sound Files

Our friends at MMO-Champion uploaded sound files, including flirts, jokes & VO of Dark Iron Dwarves! We've listed the videos below.

Customization Options

Below is an overview of customization options available to Dark Iron Dwarves in the latest Alpha Build 26032. Dark Iron Dwarf males have fiery beards, while females have the same effect on their hair.

Skin Tones

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Hair

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Faces

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Hair Color

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Facial Hair

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Piercings

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Another shitty racial tied to Blacksmithing and for the alliance? Weren't the lightforged draenei enough? (It wouldn't bother me if it worked with all crafting professions tho) Btw still can't believe they'll be able to become paladins but not shamans

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9 hours ago, Plergoth said:

I was not prepared for Bald Granny Bolvar

oh my, thanks for a good minute worth of laughing after immediatly looking back and seeing what you mean xD

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Can someone give me a good reason/argument as to why dark iron dwarves are able to become paladins?  Seems like it shouldn't be allowed to me, and I'm curious as to the logic behind it.

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7 minutes ago, Ancalagon said:

Can someone give me a good reason/argument as to why dark iron dwarves are able to become paladins?  Seems like it shouldn't be allowed to me, and I'm curious as to the logic behind it.

i don't think there is one tbh. the only thing i read about was Ion (don't quite remember) saying that the team was nostalgic with the allied races so they decided to keep shamans in the horde and pallys in the alliance even if it doesn't make any sense (like zandalari warlocks)

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1 hour ago, Ancalagon said:

Can someone give me a good reason/argument as to why dark iron dwarves are able to become paladins?  Seems like it shouldn't be allowed to me, and I'm curious as to the logic behind it.

Dark Irons have had Priests within their ranks in the past, it's not a big leap to see Paladins start to pop up, especially that the influence of Ragnaros on the clan is no longer present. It's also possible that free acting Dark Irons, or those in factions such as the Thorium Brotherhood or Mithril Order, have returned to their kin with these new experiences and teachings that they've picked up from their travels and dealings with other races. It would explain things such as fishing as well... Dark Irons, who've lived inside an active volcano for centuries, don't strike me as the sort to be artisan fishers. 

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As for why Dark Iron Dwarves can be paladins there were at least 2 paladin enemy types in Blackrock Depths, the Anvilrage Officer, who could cast Holy Light and Divine Shield, and the Anvilrage Marshal, who had Devotion Aura and could cast Holy Light.

As for why the Dark Irons could access the light in the first place I'd guess that only the Dwarves who didn't know what their leaders were planning could still access the Light, perhaps they truly thought they were doing the "good" thing by defending their home and people.

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58 minutes ago, Ovolmase said:

As for why Dark Iron Dwarves can be paladins there were at least 2 paladin enemy types in Blackrock Depths, the Anvilrage Officer, who could cast Holy Light and Divine Shield, and the Anvilrage Marshal, who had Devotion Aura and could cast Holy Light.

Correct! I hated the mob packs in BRD. Dark Irons were isolated from their Dwarven cousins for hundreds of years, during which Paladins first came about via the Silver Hand. Maybe it's possible that the Dark Iron clan created their own militaristic branch of zealous warhammer wielding warrior clerics who tap into virtually the same kind of powers, similar to the Blood Elves at the start of TBC. There's a lot of possibilities here. 

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1 hour ago, Ovolmase said:

As for why Dark Iron Dwarves can be paladins there were at least 2 paladin enemy types in Blackrock Depths, the Anvilrage Officer, who could cast Holy Light and Divine Shield, and the Anvilrage Marshal, who had Devotion Aura and could cast Holy Light.

As for why the Dark Irons could access the light in the first place I'd guess that only the Dwarves who didn't know what their leaders were planning could still access the Light, perhaps they truly thought they were doing the "good" thing by defending their home and people.

Ahhh yes... BRD... I had almost wiped that unpleasant experience from my memory.  Thank you (all of you) for your replies.

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On 21/2/2018 at 6:03 PM, Plergoth said:

Dark Irons have had Priests within their ranks in the past

And I still wonder how can a race become a Priest and not a Paladin... especially for us Horde player, every race but the Orcs can become Priest (even the Undead!!!) and yet only BlElfs and Taurens can be Paladin... at least Undead should be able to be Paladins, since they are "born" from what remains of Humans and BlElfs.

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23 minutes ago, Sesyl91 said:

... at least Undead should be able to be Paladins, since they are "born" from what remains of Humans and BlElfs.

Thats true. I always wondered why Undeads don't have just copy pasted classes of Humans. There was a long time, where they weren't allowed to be Hunters. That didnt make any sense to me. And you are right. They already can be Priests, so they have access to the Light, which should enable them to be Paladins as well.

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3 hours ago, Sesyl91 said:

And I still wonder how can a race become a Priest and not a Paladin... especially for us Horde player, every race but the Orcs can become Priest (even the Undead!!!) and yet only BlElfs and Taurens can be Paladin... at least Undead should be able to be Paladins, since they are "born" from what remains of Humans and BlElfs.

I suppose that, to the Orcs as a whole, the faith in the Light rather than the strength of a united clan, the value of one's honour and the wisdom of the ancestors doesn't represent what they believe in and strive to be. Not to mention that it basically represents the indigenous races of Azeroth, not them, as well as various points in Orc vs Human wars where a Human paladin wrecked scores of Orc warriors with relative ease. I imagine it would make them distrustful at best - similar to how they view Warlocks.

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On 21/2/2018 at 4:13 PM, Ancalagon said:

Can someone give me a good reason/argument as to why dark iron dwarves are able to become paladins?  Seems like it shouldn't be allowed to me, and I'm curious as to the logic behind it.

As if there is any logic to what races can and cannnot become anymore. :p

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Since Iron dwarves can be both paladin and shaman, i think zandalari trolls should be able to be paladin.

Maybe remove warlock as a playable class and change it to paladin, since this makes more sense and majority of the horde wants this.

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On 1/3/2018 at 2:38 PM, Plergoth said:

I suppose that, to the Orcs as a whole, the faith in the Light rather than the strength of a united clan, the value of one's honour and the wisdom of the ancestors doesn't represent what they believe in and strive to be. Not to mention that it basically represents the indigenous races of Azeroth, not them, as well as various points in Orc vs Human wars where a Human paladin wrecked scores of Orc warriors with relative ease. I imagine it would make them distrustful at best - similar to how they view Warlocks.

I wasn't complaing about the lack of Orc Priest (taht would be pretty odd) but about the logic behind races that can be Priest and not Paladin when both Paladin and Priest are devout to the Light

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