Can we start getting mad about racials?

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This is a big issue that just kind of mildly gets brought up from time to time. There’s more races in this game than just dwarves and night elves.

In my opinion they shouldn’t get rid of racials or homogenize them, just buff the ones that are clearly terrible, like what even is a nightborne good for at all? More niche racials should be moved to lower cooldowns so they can actually use them effectively when they’re able to. The hot garbage ones just need to be reworked.

Human - Niche/PvP
Dwarf - OP
Night Elf - OP
Gnome - Niche/PvP
Draenei - bad (why 3m cd?)
Worgen - Hot garbage
Panda - meh
Void elf - meh/niche
Lightforged - Hot garbage
Darkiron - Good/niche
Kultiran - bad
Mechagnome - ???

Orc - PvP/OP
Undead - meh/bad
Tauren - decent
Troll - Hopefully your cds line up/parsing
Blood Elf - good/niche
Goblin - meh/niche
Nightborne - Hot garbage
Tauren with antlers - meh
Brown orcs - Hot garbage
Zandalari - bad
Vulpera - meh

Why is this just permanently ignored?

There is an overlap of players that wan’t to engage in challenging content but also want to keep the RPG aspect and enjoy their character

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Im mad about a lot of things, so we can add racials to it.

Mechagnome is a combat analysis that gives some primary stat and a cheat death. Its nice on my tank! An angry nice though.

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Human racials are cool.

I think some bait-and-switch forcing paid race changes would help WoW’s profits.

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Because Blizz doesn’t see the data to nerf them and just adjusts content around them usually.

I don’t understand why people get so bent out of shape over these things, tbh.

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Drawf and DI racial does the same thing

Lightforged Racial was really good until it was stealth nerfed. Used to be a 700k+ bomb in S1 and now it does like 350

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At least for me, it’s that some racials are active and/or useful, so they’re noticable and add flavor. I’ll go so far as to say the Vulpera camp is one of the best non-combat racials, and should be the bar.

Just silly RPG things with a side of utility (please help NB).

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“Start” getting mad? People are posting on this pretty regularly now.

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:robot::+1:

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If there’s like 24 racials and 21 of them are “meh/bad” the issue is not the meh racials, it’s the couple that aren’t meh.

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It would be easier to nerf, but I think it would be too unfair to the players that are already playing them.

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Blizzard won’t change this.

All the hard core eSports guilds are all Horde for this very reason.

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Nerfs aren’t unfair. Things should be balanced. Blizzard nerfs things all the time.

People need to get over the idea of “never nerf, just buff everything else.”
That only makes sense when it’s a relatively even amount of resources to correct the issue. When the problem is the 5%, you don’t go and change the 95% instead to make it line up.

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too much work to get mad.

I will enjoy others getting mad about it, though.

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Orc hasnt been broken in PVP since SL

Incorrect.

Most of the Top End players are Alliance especially on the tournament realms.

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More people play orc in 3v3 than every other horde race combined.

19 out of the top 20 mythic guilds are horde.

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Pre SL sure.

Since the changes to stuns no one uses orc anymore.

Because everyone is ALREADY horde and on horde dominated servers.

Mythic raiding is all about networking.

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I’m just saying you’re wrong, but yes mythic raiding guilds being horde currently isn’t about racials.

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I am angry. Blizzard keeps removing identity because of posts like this but hey you know we have playable eredar now, soon velf paladins will exist. Surely this will get people to come back after they quit, surely the reason they quit was because of the lack of these stupid things. But you know let’s just remove racials. We could also just remove every race except for humans, that might be a better idea!

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It’d be cool if they had RPG elements in this game.

Like… Undead… being mechanically treated like they’re undead… and all the beast races being treated like beasts… with real upsides and real downsides and huge PvP implications… and quests/content only they can do.

Would have been cool if Worgen just a straight up Werewolf Class.

WoW is so watered down in general. It’s kind of disappointing.

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They made stun resist baseline by removing relentless and added a base 15% bonus CC reduction to the trinket set bonus

It also doesnt stack

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