Trolls

October 7th, 2006 by Alice

Once at home in the jungles of Stranglethron Vale, the fierce trolls of the Darkspear tribe were pushed out by warring factions. Now part of the Horde along with the Orcs, Tauren and Undead. As part of the Horde, the Trolls have extended their loyalty to the mighty Tauren, but they have little trust for the manipulative Forsaken, whom they believe will visit only misery and strife upon their allie.Their alliance with Horde began through a meeting with the Orc Warchief Thrall who saved this band of Trolls, the Darkspear tribe, from the Murlocs. In debt to the mighty Thrall, the leader of the Trolls, Shadow Hunter Vol’jin of the Darkspear Trolls pledged his allegiance to the Horde.

Allied with the Orcs, the Troll share the same homeland of Durotar with its hot rugged hills, grassland and mountains on the east coast of Kalimdor. Their city of Orgrimmar, named after Thrall’s mentor Orgrim Doomhammer, is also shared with the Orcs and is situated in a rugged jagged mountain valley. Orgrimmar is an impressive sight and has been constructed by Thrall to show the might of the Orcs and their allies.

While the trolls may be known for their hunting skills, they also dabble in the darker side of the magical arts which includes voodoo, dark spiritualism and blood magic. This makes this race well rounded in many skills as shown by the variety of classes available to this race.

Start Location	Durotar
Home City	Orgrimmar
Classes	Hunter, Mage, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, Warrior
Mounts	Raptor (cost 80 gold & 1000 gold)
Flight	Wyvern
Faction	Horde {along with Blood Elves, Tauren, Undead & Orcs}
Racial Traits	Berserking (active): Increases your melee, ranged, and casting speed by 10% to 30%. The value scales upwards towards 30% depending how low your health is when you activate the ability. Requires a small amount of mana, rage, or energy (depending on your class) to activate. Does not require being struck by a critical to activate. Lasts 10 seconds with 3 minute cooldownd but no global cooldown. Regeneration (passive): Increase health regen bonus by 10%. 10% active in combat. Beast Slaying (passive): Increase damage bonus to Beasts by 5% Throwing & Bow Weapon Specialization (passive): Increase Throwing Weapon skill by +5 and +5 to Bows

Each class available to this race will start with different attribute stats and proficiencies.
Points are not awarded for you to allocate to the following stats, they increase as you level up and can be augmented with items worn and buffs on your character.
There are no differences in attributes between the genders or between characters created on a PvE, PvP or RP server.

Strength - Increases your attack power with melee weapons

Agility - Increases your attack power with both melee and ranged weapons, and improves your chance to score a critical hit with all weapons. Increases your armor and your chance to dodge attacks.

Stamina - Increases health points.

Intellect - Increases mana points and your chance to score Critical Hit with spells. Increases the rate at which you improve weapon skills.

Spirit - Increases health and mana regeneration rates.

Melee Attack - Damage with melee weapons.

Ranged Attack - Damage with ranged weapons.

Damage - Weapon Damage.

Armor - Decreases the amount of damage you take from physical attacks. The amount of reduction is influenced by the level of your attacker.

Starting Attributes
	Hunter	Mage	Priest	Rogue	Shaman	Warrior
Strength	21	21	21	22	22	24
Agility	25	22	22	25	22	22
Stamina	22	21	21	22	22	23
Intellect	16	19	18	16	17	16
Spirit	22	23	24	21	23	21
Armor	52	49	49	52	58	51
Melee Attack	1	1	1	1	1	1
Power	28	11	11	29	26	31
Damage	5 - 8	5 - 8	2 - 5	4 - 6	4 - 7	5 - 8
Ranged Attack	1	N/A	N/A	6	N/A	6
Power	32	N/A	N/A	31	N/A	25
Damage	7 - 11	N/A	N/A	5 - 8	N/A	4 - 7
Class Skills
Arms
Assassination
Combat
Discipline
Elemental
Fire
Frost
Holy
Marksmanship
Survival
Restoration
Weapon Skills
Axes
Bows
Daggers
Defense
One-handed Maces
Staves
Thrown
Unarmed
Wands
Armor Proficiencies
Cloth
Leather
Mail	*
Shield
Languages
Orcish
Troll
	Hunter	Mage	Priest	Rogue	Shaman	Warrior
Note: * At level 40 All resistances start at zero Other weapon skills can be learnt from NPC Trainers

Patch History

The history of the changes made to the Troll race during the beta and beyond are detailed below with the most recent at the top.

Patch 1.9.0 (3 January 2006)

Troll Berserking

New functionality: Berserking is now an activated ability that increases your melee, ranged, and casting speed by 10% to 30%. The value scales upwards towards 30% depending how low your health is when you activate the ability.
Now lasts 10 seconds.
Now requires a small amount of mana, rage, or energy (depending on your class) to activate.
No longer requires being struck by a critical to activate.
Now has a three minute cooldown, up from two minutes.
No longer has a global cooldown.

Throwing Mastery

Trolls now also receive a bonus to Bow weapons in addition to Throwing weapons.

Patch 1.5.0 (7 June 2005)

Berserking - Updated tooltip to clarify ability only usable following a melee critical.

Patch 1.4.0 (20 April 2005)

Berserking - Changed to “Is usable after being the target of a critical hit. Increases melee, ranged and spell casting speed by 25% but increases all damage taken by 10% for the duration.” from “Activate when “Wounded” to increase melee & spell casting speed by 25%. Lasts 20 sec. 2 min cool-down.”