Alluding to the pre 11.1 interview with the devs that said there were still a couple of “overperforming racials” that they felt would be unfair to nerf mid-season.
Well season 2 rolled around and Night Elf (Shadowmeld) is still utterly dominating almost every spec that they can roll in pvp.
Playing a Tauren druid just feels so bad… 95% of all druids across pvp brackets in NA and EU are Night Elf. That’s how OP rake/stun is or meld/drink is.
Especially feels bad playing rogue or druid that have stealth abilities like rake/stun and “from stealth” abilities tied so prominently into a racial.
I guess the other racial the devs may have been referencing is the Dwarf racials.
Dwarf is again meta for most M+ specs (that can’t pick Nelf.) With their already strong crit damage modifier and being able to completely remove debufs, it’s no wonder that they have been default choice for so many specs for literally several expansions.
Any updates on this? Please nerf/tune/buff more racials to make them competative.
As it stand there are 2-3 solid race choices that are dominating the majority of end game competitive play, because of their “overperforming racials.” And they are all alliance.
Due to overwhelming crying, Shadowmeld will be buffed to a 10 second cooldown, be usable while moving and keep you stealthed for the entire duration and make it so your immune to dmg while hidden. Also all Alliance players can now use Shadowmeld.
Any horde posting about how this is unfair will be moved to the new Hardcore Retail servers with no option to transfer back and when you’re character dies you’re account with be deleted. After all they need a new golden throne in the employee restrooms.
I can understand that it would take more than one patch to find their solution to this. I mean, they obviously don’t want to completely gut the racials of the most popular race.
But I guess because they said that “it felt wrong to nerf these overperforming racials mid-season,” or words to that effect, then I just hope that if not this coming patch, that the devs are seriously looking into this for season 3.
Talk to any pvper (that is not gaslighting) and they will all say that Night Elf has got to have Shadowmeld changed.
This is an ongoing issue that is not “flying under the radar.” It’s right up in your face obvious!
Every class can be one of those. No changes needed.
Just like everyone can reroll DH/Oracle. No changes needed there either.
At this point, I don’t think anyone can sustain the illusion that balance matters in any way. We’re just supposed to wait for them to announce the next meta so we can all reroll to that.
Blizzard had an opportunity to give Horde a good racial for m+ with Earthen, but for some reason decided that Horde didn’t deserve to have any meta racials while alliance gets to have 3 (meld, stoneform, fireblood). There’s not even the excuse of trying to entice player to go alliance since raid and mythic plus are cross-faction…we’re just in a situation where there are wildly imbalanced racials that have not been addressed for over 5+ years; I’m sick of being told I’m trolling by not playing dwarf as tank or nelf for anything else.
Blizzard should just disable racials in instanced content or when in WM/flagged. This would make balancing the racials less important since racials would only impact questing / world content. Either that or start massively buffing Horde racials that were nerfed for “balance” since it’s obviously not a priority given how long OP shadowmeld and dwarf racials have been untouched; start by making arcane torrent interrupt again (keep purge effect too) + castable at range, grants 10% HP shield, and 1 minute CD and it restores 20% mana/energy/rage/etc. Give trolls beast slaying back (5% increase damage to beast) but make it apply to all units; make beserking remove + grant immunity to CC + give 10% haste; reduce cd to 1 minute.
