So let me start off by saying maybe I’m way off my rocker here, so feel free to call me crazy, but Racial Abilities make part of this game just…stupid.
As someone who started messing around with world pvp this expansion, I have yet to find a shard where as a Horde player, when any pvp world quest or activity happens, I’m not immediately outnumbered 4 to 1 by alliance players. This is frustrating. You could argue that blizzard needs to to better balancing shards in PVP/War Mode, but that’s a conversation for another time.
I was talking with a friend of mine about this, and he pointed out that even he re-rolled Alliance because as mainly a PVE player, the racials he has access to are better than Horde racials. And that got me thinking.
We can pick our spec, we can pick our talents, why not just allow us to pick our racial abilities as well? I understand that some people may be picking up their pitchforks and torches, that it would somehow destroy their class fantasy, but let me ask you, would it really? Would an Orc using shadow meld REALLY destroy the game for you? Would a Dracthyr using a re-named Stoneform make the world burn?
And then tune them. If they’re available to everyone, any tuning to them makes it less of an issue to people who rolled that race BECAUSE of the racial. You can roll what you want because you want to play a dwarf, or blood elf, or WHATEVER YOU WANT.
Tell me why I’m dumb and why this hasn’t happened yet.
Love you.
If there are no racial specific racial abilities, then that’s not a racial ability. It is just another ability. It is like the non class specific covenant abilities we got in Shadowlands.
We can’t help that you’re outnumbered, I’d love to see more Horde out in the open for some World PvP but I can’t force them to stop being AFK outside of the Dornogal AH.
Well you can’t but the game can. If there are 20 Alliance and 4 Horde, 2 of the Hordies can go against 19 of the Alliance like usual and 2 of them can go on a shard with just 1 Alliance.
As many times as I’ve been sharded out of crates because it DETECTS that I’m the only one there, I know they can do this.
I’d like them to be more diverse. So sometimes I’m outnumbered, sometimes it’s a fight, and sometimes it’s a gimme.
Having none of the Horde ever go for them because they know they won’t win is exactly the opposite of fun. I farm plenty of honour on my Alliance character but that’s not really fun either.
In BfA, Bliz unleashed vulpera onto the Horde and with the better alliance racials and a better warmode bonus, most flopped to Alliance then and it’s never recovered. It never will.
Sharding could have solved that but what it actually did was to increase the ratio. So now you’re outnumbered from the other faction from different realms and not only yours.
I’m going to say what I say every time this exact terrible idea is proposed:
No.
They’re called racial abilities for a reason. You make them separate from races, then they’re basically Covenant powers. Your race’s abilities and base stats having a significant impact on your gameplay (the latter in older versions of the game, at least) is at least half of the reason why race changes are so expensive, and letting you swap racials on the fly would be massively destabilizing when you can just use a different one as needed.
Does it make any sense for them to have those abilities? Also no.
Okay, so let’s give goblins Gift of the Naaru, except we can’t because the fact that it’s a draenei-related ability is right there in the name and its visuals, and turning it into a generic HoT would completely rob it of that identity. Same as if they gave Spatial Rift to undead or Ancestral Call to worgen.
All of the people calling for more unification of every aspect of the game need to learn that in an RPG, you’re expected to make choices that aren’t easily reversed, but they have no respect for that idea, so after this topic and “all races, all classes”, it’s suggestions like any race on either faction, allied races being merged with their parent races, or every class gets four specs and can play either DPS, tank, healer, or support.
I like the idea of picking “racials”… It woud be something like a general mini talent tree not tied to a class maybe.
That not being a possibility, I’d fully in to nuke every racial tied to stats or things that would give a big upper hand in combat, so races are picked more for the flavor of their racials. They’d rework the removed ones into something else.
