Hello,
I haven’t been playing the game for around 7 years, not as diligently for probably 10 years. Came back very recently.
I’m mostly playing lock, hunter, mage, druid, monk. Mostly in this order. This is what I was playing 7 years ago.
I have some horde and some alliance toons. I’m curious how big of a deal are the alliance racials, in your opinion, especially for PVP?
It seems that Nelf, Human, and Dwarf are the top options?
Nelf for smeld. Smeld can “dodge” projectiles (even after launched?) which can be very helpful in a pinch. Can be helpful for rogue to get re-stealth. Can drop target in a pinch. Anything I miss? I guess it can make or break in the right moment, but is it a bit niche or is it just really bread and butter?
Human for the 2% versatility and other stats. How big of a deal really? It’s mostly the extra CC break right? I can see this would/could be very helpful.
Dwarf for dropping bleeds, somewhat depends on how strong Sin-Rogue and Feral are, but they’re often strong and so this can save your life.
Lore, aesthetics, casting animations, and many other considerations are also important and vary person to person.
I’m just looking for some extra perspective and opinion. Thanks.
You’ve been making this same post for five years…
dwarf can also drop arms deep wounds to negate their mastery, itll only last for one ms since it’ll get reapplied, but its still a notable damper on their burst.
Since you’re posting in bgs and not arenas you can cater racial choices more to your own playstyle. Void elf teleport is strong for every single class, draenei heal is like a free battlemaster trinket that you can use on allies, nightborne has an 80% aoe slow (idk if its nerfed in pvp?) which is pretty clutch on kits that aren’t balanced around having major aoe slows, like monk/warlock. Maghar damage was buffed and 10% mounted speed stacks with dk/crusader(I don’t think the boot enchant stacks with either) which opens up more map rotation.
Racials are one of those things where if you aren’t already optimizing your play with your base kit you wont suddenly beat better players. They (shadowmeld/dispel) will just give you a free pass when you make a mistake, in cutting edge its an extra cycle so yeah, playing a mirror you’ll feel the loss, but that assumes people are optimizing their up/down cycles in a match to begin with.
But in something like bgs, is being able to darkflight (worgen/stacks with other speed increases) and get across a fight quicker better than a shadowmeld reset? Probably not in the majority of scenarios, but like I said, if your playstyle enjoys exploiting those opportunities more than the scenarios shadowmeld enables, who cares, its just a game.
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Having meld/stun be so compulsory makes playing my Tauren druid feel terrible.
95% Night Elf druids across all pvp brackets.
How long is it just going to be standard… Oh you pvp? Just pick Night Elf.
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