Bloodfury, Faction Balance and TBC

If they make any change to racials, the safest thing to do is just delete them from arena. I would be a big supporter of this. Just let people play the race they like.

What do you actually suggest to balance racials? I’m with you that the TBC racial balance isn’t great, but it’s not so bad that I would roll the dice with blizzard making the problem worse but flipping the flavor of the month. Alliance had 35% of top arena spots season 1-3, and 60% season 4. This is bad, but nothing close to the disaster of every man for himself in wrath beyond where alliance hold 99% of the top spots. If blizzard won’t even fix the significantly worse problem from wrath, why would they fix it in TBC which at least has both factions playable at a competitive level?

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It’s because of Blood Elves.

I’m just not sure what the point of playing a Classic game is if you are going to ask for things to be changed significantly.

Aren’t Human melee the best in Vanilla and TBC because the best weapons in the game are Swords and the occasional Mace?

Bloodfury is a good racial. It also makes sense in the lore that Orcs have this. I’m just not seeing it being worth such a big change for what amounts to WCL ranking envy.

You know if they do this (I’m not 100% against it) that you have to give Tauren the Escape Artist racial and Undead get Shadowmeld.

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You sure? Wowhead TBC says it’s attack power only.

edit; Oh nevermind, the comments say there’s 3 versions depending on class. Includes spell power.

yeah the wowhead versions are tricky,i forgot to mention that it still mortal strikes you so that could be a big downside depending on the situation

Do you know if same faction BG’s were a thing in TBC classic 2.0? I don’t remember. If not, choosing a faction for Bgs is extremely important in regard to queue times.

faction bgs came out like 4 weeks into classic tbc s1 after the horde had a total meltdown over insane queue times and alliance premades, i don’t know if this version of bc will have them

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That means it probably will have them. Blizzard will do a copy paste as a starting point.

Sorry to all the PVE bros that need to parse harder. Looks like us BG players will be fine playing whatever race.

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PvP racials are balanced because more people pvpd seriously than did pve in 07’. If we had more dragonslayers then this would be solved(horde also wasn’t majority then so they had other reasons not to nerf).

Let me get this straight. WE just played 2019 classic fresh… you rolled Ally because Ally has pallys and is the better faction in vanilla. Now you are asking for changes in TBC because ally dont have the better racials? Just ask for a faction change and give blizzard their money. Everyone that rolled horde this fresh did it for the long game, just because ally players want short term bis faction doesnt mean they should get their cake and eat it to. Leave it alone and re roll like the rest of your guildies are.

The Sweat must flow.
And the Horde will now be overexposed to excessive hair care product use and daily condescension at mudhuts just so that can happen.

I just wanna get some coffee and hang with the windchime in Shattrath. But yeah. If Blizz is gonna offer a 58 boost (and they will) then they can free the faction swaps as well so sweaty whales rejoice!

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Henneything is possible.

We got Dual Spec in Anniversary so who knows really.

Haven’t seen a single person mention that blood fury mortal strikes you for 15 seconds. -50% healing. That’s bad right?

Hope some parselord dies in raid because of it and ruins their parse.

Only for you, start healing them!

Healer problem

Sounds like it’s balanced then since it drains healer’s mana.

It’s not balanced.

Horde has pretty much always had the best pve racials and it’s not even close.

Even doing mop they horde are busted.

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Just because parselords would sell their souls to the devil to squeeze out extra dps doesn’t mean that -50% healing isn’t a balancing factor. Especially in pvp, self mortal striking yourself is a massive gamble.

The original game wasn’t designed exclusively for parselords.

I mean thats just copium.

We are talking about what does the most damage, and horde do it better.

Judging self worth via parsing is also copium imo. Let’s not keep making changes based solely on parsing thanks.