To unlock the Haranir, you need to play through the Harandar campaign in World of Warcraft: Midnight and earn the achievement Allied Race: Haranir. There's no reputation grind and no separate scenario. Just finish the story chapters in Harandar, the third zone of the expansion, and the race opens up at character creation along with a free mount. Here's exactly how it works.

The Short Version

• Reach Harandar by progressing through the Midnight main campaign on a level-capped character.

• Complete the Harandar campaign quests, finishing with the recruitment quest that ends in Silvermoon City.

• Earn the Allied Race: Haranir achievement.

• You can now create a Haranir on either faction, and you get the Ivory Grimlynx mount for free.

What the Haranir Actually Are

The Haranir are the new Allied Race in Midnight. They were first introduced back in The War Within, and they're ancient hunters from a hidden land with glowing bioluminescent features. Visually they sit somewhere between a Night Elf and a Troll, a nature-bound people who grow their architecture instead of building it. They guard the roots of the World Trees, and now some of them are stepping out to help Azeroth.

Like the Earthen before them, the Haranir are a neutral race, so you pick Horde or Alliance per character when you create one. Both factions get full access to their classes and racials.

Step by Step: Unlocking the Haranir

1. Get into the Midnight campaign. You'll need a character that's leveled up and following the expansion's main story. The unlock is tied to the campaign, not to Early Access, so everyone gets there on the same timeline regardless of which edition they bought.

2. Push through to Harandar. Harandar is the third zone of Midnight, a primordial fungal jungle wrapped around the roots of the World Trees. Stick with the main story rather than wandering off into side content if you want to get there faster.

3. Finish the Harandar campaign chapters. Work through the zone's story until you've completed the campaign questline there. This is where you properly meet the Haranir and earn their trust.

4. Do the recruitment quest. After the campaign, a short recruitment chain wraps things up. The final quest, handed out near the Harandar portal in Silvermoon City, closes out the storyline and triggers the achievement.

5. Earn Allied Race: Haranir. Completing that final quest awards the achievement, which is the moment the race unlocks for character creation.

One thing worth knowing: there's zero reputation requirement. This is one of the cleanest allied race unlocks Blizzard has shipped, so you're really just playing the story to the end.

Your Free Mount: The Ivory Grimlynx

The second you complete the achievement, you're awarded the Ivory Grimlynx mount, a sleek feline that fits the Haranir's wild aesthetic. You don't have to make a Haranir character to keep it. It's account-wide once earned.

Classes You Can Play

The Haranir have a solid class spread. They can play every class except Death Knight, Demon Hunter, Evoker, and Paladin. That leaves nine options:

• Druid

• Hunter

• Mage

• Monk

• Priest

• Rogue

• Shaman

• Warlock

• Warrior

Every role is covered here, so whether you want to tank, heal, or do melee or ranged DPS, the Haranir can fill it.

Racial Abilities

The Haranir come with five nature-themed racials, and a couple of them are genuinely strong:

• Thorn Bloom - an active ability on a roughly 3-minute cooldown. It commands thorns to hit up to 8 enemies and heal up to 8 allies within 10 yards of the target area. No other race has a single button that both damages and heals like this.

• One With Nature - increases Herbalism skill by 5 and Finesse by 10, with Finesse boosting your chance to gather extra materials. This makes Haranir the standout pick for herbalists in Midnight.

• Lash Out - increases your critical strike damage and healing by 1%.

• Subterranean Predator - boosts experience and damage against Aberrations, Beasts, and Elementals.

• Rootwalking - a teleport that takes you to the Cradle, and when cast near a World Tree's roots inside Harandar, lets you travel between those world trees.

Druid Forms and Shaman Totems

If you roll a Haranir Druid, you get a full set of unique forms. The Haranir have custom Bear, Cat, Moonkin, Flight, Travel, Aquatic, and Treant forms, each with multiple color variants, and you unlock them the same way every other race does. Haranir Shamans also get their own racial totem models to match the theme.

Heritage Armor: Two Sets to Earn

Unlocking the race is just the start of the cosmetics. Reaching level 50 on a Haranir character earns the Heritage of the Haranir achievement and unlocks two heritage armor sets, Har'alnor and Shul'ka. These can only be transmogged by Haranir characters.

Big catch here: you have to level the character manually from 10 to 50. A character boost does not count. Blizzard enforces this on all allied race heritage gear, so there's no shortcut. You can still use a boost if you only want a max-level Haranir for the racials, you just won't get the heritage sets that way.

On top of the heritage armor, playing through the intro questline on your first Haranir grants the Tabard of the Haranir and a militia transmog set.

Quick FAQ

Do I need to grind reputation?

No. The unlock is purely story-based through the Harandar campaign. No rep required.

Can I unlock it during Early Access?

No. The Harandar campaign is part of the full Midnight release, so the unlock lands on the same date for everyone. Use Early Access time to level alts or set up professions instead.

Can both Horde and Alliance play Haranir?

Yes. They're a neutral race, so you choose your faction per character when you create one, just like the Earthen, Pandaren, and Dracthyr.

Will a level boost get me the heritage armor?

No. You must hand-level from 10 to 50 on a Haranir to earn the heritage sets. A boost gets you a playable character but skips the achievement.