Azeroth Survivors classes: all nine, side by side

How many Azeroth Survivors classes are there?

There are nine Azeroth Survivors classes: Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, Mage, Warlock and Druid. Each one starts with its own ability and draws level-up cards from a private pool, and pool sizes differ from class to class.

Power type splits the same way the class list does: seven of the nine run on mana, the Warrior on rage and the Rogue on energy. It is the only per-class stat the data file carries, and this page does not put health, armour or damage columns next to it, because the file has none.

A build page for every class

• Warrior build: Cleave, 9 cards
• Paladin build: Hammer Of Wrath, 8 cards
• Hunter build: Arcane Shot, 7 cards
• Rogue build: Sinister Strike
• Priest build: Smite, 7 cards
• Shaman build: Lightning Bolt, 8 cards
• Mage build: Frostbolt, 11 cards
• Warlock build: Shadow Bolt, 9 cards
• Druid build: Wrath, 8 cards

The builds index collects the same nine pages, the how to play guide covers the controls and the level-up loop, and the troubleshooting page is the one to open if a run will not start at all. Playing on a phone or a tablet? Read the mobile page before you pick a class.

What does each Azeroth Survivors class start with?

Every class starts with one ability the game hands over before the first level-up, and that card is all you own in the opening wave. Six of the nine start on a bolt, two on a melee swing and one on a strike, and the numbers below come straight from the game's ability table.

Read the last three columns before the damage column. Melee starters reach 5.5 units and only hit what walks into you, while the ranged starters reach 20 to 28 units and fire by themselves, so a Warrior or Rogue game is movement, and a Mage or Hunter game is positioning. Cleave is also the only starter that hits three targets at once, which is why it carries the highest cooldown of the two melee cards.

Damage per hit sits in a narrow band, 12 for Frostbolt up to 16 for Hammer Of Wrath, so no starter decides a run on its own. The Mage's bolt is the weakest of the nine and it is also the only starter that slows: Frostbolt applies a 50% slow for 2.5 seconds, which is the whole difference between walking away from a pack and being caught by it.

How many abilities does each Azeroth Survivors class pool have?

Pool sizes differ between classes, and pool size changes a run more than any other class fact: a small pool is finished early and pushes later levels into upgrades, while a large one keeps handing out new cards deep into a run.

The matrix below counts every card in a pool by the type tag the data file gives it. A class that repeats one tag hands out a very readable level-up screen; a class spread over six tags keeps asking you to learn a new name.

One intermediate tag is worth knowing about before the full list: Consecration is typed GroundSelf, an area that stays on you rather than on the ground, so it is counted under Ground here. The nine pools use 16 tags in total, from Melee and Bolt to Totem, Cone and Heal.

Every card in every pool

The class abilities in the order the data file lists them. The starting ability repeats inside its own pool, because it is both the card you begin with and the one you keep levelling.

A tag says how an ability picks its targets and nothing else. There is no damage, cooldown or radius column attached to a tag, so a big pool is not a stronger pool: the Mage's 11 cards and the Rogue's 6 share the same damage band, and the Rogue gets to level 8 on the cards it owns sooner.

How do you pick an Azeroth Survivors class?

Pick on the starting ability first, then on pool size, and only then on how varied the card list looks. Those three facts are in the data file and they decide what the first five minutes feel like; anything beyond them is a judgment about play, and the file ships no class stats to back one up.

1. Read the starting-ability column first, because that one card is what every run of the class begins with and you never get to choose it.
2. Compare pool sizes next, since a 6-card pool fills up early and turns later levels into upgrades, while an 11-card pool keeps offering new names.
3. Check the type spread after that, because a pool repeating one tag gives a consistent level-up screen and a pool over six tags asks you to relearn every card.
4. Skim the full pool list before you commit, because the ability you cannot picture is the one you will skip at the level-up screen.
5. Leave the race pick for last, because race and class are independent columns and no race fixes a class you do not enjoy.
6. Play one class for several runs before switching, since a pool only reads properly once the card names stop being noise.
7. Level what you already hold before reaching for a new slot, because six abilities at level 8 beat six abilities at level 2.

Common mistakes when you pick a class

• Treating the class grid as a difficulty list: nothing in the data says which class is harder, so a pick made on somebody's sense of difficulty is a guess.
• Taking the 11-ability Mage because more cards sound stronger: a bigger pool also means more cards you skip on the way to the good ones.
• Waiting for the perfect starting ability: every class begins with one card, and the pool opens as you level.
• Reaching for a seventh ability: six is the cap, so the next level has to go into the abilities you already hold.
• Collecting new cards while the old ones sit at level 1: each ability goes to level 8, and levels are what make a card hit.
• Expecting the race pick to change the pool: race and class are separate columns and there is no racial ability in the file.

Do races or factions change your Azeroth Survivors class?

No. Race and class are two independent columns on the setup screen: the eight races carry no ability, no card pool and no stat of their own, and the data file has no line tying an ability to a race. Faction is lore text as well, four races per side and no bonus attached.

The two picks do live in two different client tables, which is where the independence comes from. Class names and ids come from one per-class table and race names and ids from a separate per-race table, and neither table carries a link to the other. The game stores a class id and a race id on the character and reads them separately, so nothing stops a Troll Warrior or a Human Druid.

What the files do leave open is which race models a given class can wear. The repository keeps only display ids and lets the client's creature display data do the mapping, so no combinations are claimed on this page. In practice the race pick is a look and a piece of lore, and the class pick is the run.

Which 8 races and 2 factions are there in Azeroth Survivors?

There are eight playable races, four in each faction: Human, Dwarf, Gnome and Night Elf on the Alliance side, Orc, Undead, Tauren and Troll on the Horde side. Every race is pure flavour for a run, and none of them changes the card pool you draw from.

The two factions are the Alliance, a daylight order built on discipline and precision crystal machinery, and the Horde, a wildblood pact rooted in bloodline power and the pulse of nature. Both are described in the game's lore file as peoples rather than as rules, which matches the data: four races per side, no stat difference between them.

What limits do all nine Azeroth Survivors classes share?

Every class obeys the same run limits: a fixed number of ability slots, a level cap on each ability, and passives drawn from one shared pool. Bosses arrive at intervals through the run, whoever you picked.

The passive list is the one part of the run no class owns. Ten cards, same ten for a Warrior and a Mage, each worth a percentage per level on one stat:

That cap is why the class grid and the passive list are worth reading together: a 6-card Rogue pool runs dry against a 6-slot holding limit, so from the moment the pool is spent the run is passive levels and ability levels. The Mage's 11 cards spend longer filling the same six slots, and the two heroes end the run on the same caps.

Azeroth Survivors classes FAQ