I find it so odd that Suramar and its accompany storyline were so well developed and loved, yet the allied race is the weakest of the bunch on Horde. Just reducing the cooldown on Arcane Pulse to 2 minutes would go a considerable ways to making it a better race in general, independent of their incredible lack of customization.
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Agreed, plenty of racials need buffs: Mag’har, HMT, LFD. They should put all racials in a 2min cd and balance them around that.
As soon as they do Worgen the allied races can get theirs. Worgen are still the only core race in the game who haven’t had racials touched when everyone else did including goblins so ya im all for buffs once we Worgen players get what is long overdue.
Maybe in 9.1.5?
What a weird thread necro, but I can’t say I disagree.
A LOT of races could use buffs/revamps to their racials. Playing my NE druid feels so different to my LF priest because having access to something like shadowmeld is just bloody amazing.
I hate to be the person that says “OmG bUt vOiD elVEs” but I seriously despise their active ability - I literally don’t even have it on my bars it’s that bad. LF have the worst passives out of all of the races (one of them is just an XP buff against demons… like wtf). The list goes on.
Void elf racial has low key won me matches in PvP though? You can use it in roots and stuff, and also use it to skip mechanics like on Painsmith.
They’re actually fine.
Light’s Judgement and Reckoning are also solid? (…and the death explosion is hilarious?)
Nothing compares to Shadowmeld though.
Orc stun racial competes I think. Thing is broken.
Why I’m stuck as a zug zug instead of pretending I’m a dark ranger or going nightborne for the meme. (…or able to PvP at all on Alliance as a void elf.)
It’s actually ridiculous how broken it is in PvP.
I want to try to track down the stats from say, MoP, when Alliance was the dominate PvP faction and see if humans had this level of representation. The faction balance overall was like 60/40 instead of the 20/80 it is now, so I’m really curious what the racial breakdown would have been.
I’m against improving the Horde-racials. They are partly the reason why the factions are imbalanced to begin with. Push the Alliance but not the Horde.
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Alliance has slightly better racials, just with a bit more RNG.
Honestly, just reverting the EMFH nerf would likely be enough for PvP balance without any other changes.
PvE’s probably trashed though permanently.
Yes… buff the mailbox 
I agree. It can only hold 1 Night Elf, it needs to hold 2.
All racials should be cosmetic anyway.
I’m giving this two IOU likes in acknowledgement of how clever that pun was…
I have no clue why they made the nightborne racials what they are, the 1% magic increase is so lame. Especially if someone wants to play a Nightborne that isn’t a mage or a warlock or a shadow priest. The night well was a conduit of pure arcane energy connected to the Titan of time, it should be a haste proc. Not to mention the actual active racial is the most useless thing ever. But the mailbox is nice.
“Should be,” but that doesn’t change the reality that some are either immensely useful or immensely useless, like in the case of the Nightborne with cantrips…a mailbox.
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I didn’t know you could could teleport to the void rift during CC’s that’s actually pretty cool, but apart from those two very niche uses you have just described it’s not a great or fun to use ability. If you like it that’s great, but I’d rather just have something like a mage blink or a warlock summoning circle.
I specifically said the LF’s passives for a reason - Light’s judgment is a bit boring to use but it’s damage is great especially against groups. Also reckoning IS the death explosion, that’s the only half decent passive and I don’t even like it that much because again it just doesn’t do much outside of PvP for example (and having passives be revolved around dying just isn’t a great design route for an MMO.)
I just think a lot of races could use touch ups or reworks of some of their passives/abilities that’s all.