The Undead Race have a racial ability called “Cannibalize”, which restores 35% of our health over 10 seconds if we channel it on the corpse of a humanoid or undead; damage will break the restoration. One (1) minute cooldown.
The new “Recuperate” ability heals for 50% of our health over 10 seconds; breaks on damage. No cooldown.
THIS NEW ABILITY NEGATES CANNIBALISM.
There is really no reason I would use Cannibalism anymore. It needs to be reworked. I propose you allow us to “Cannibalize” to jump at our target and starting to eat them, consuming them for 35% of our health over 10 seconds channeled; does not break on damage.
Someone tag the Community Council on this to bring awareness so they can discuss it in the Discord. Everyone please “esc” “support” “submit feedback” in-game because this is ridiculous they have made one of our abilities completely useless.
I agree a lot of racials are in need of a touching up, even given that cinnabilize (i was gonna fix this but now its cinnabilize) can be used in combat its realllly niche only in pvp can i see that being useful, questing pve is wayy to easy to care. I would only ever use it to emote on people.
Cannibalise should be faster or something I mean hell the cooldown is crazy 2 minutes is bs in retail for what it does. It’s a product of its time classic but it was left in the dust long ago like so many other racials like blood elves.
All these people claiming it’s ok because Cannibalize can be used in combat… smh… you realise how incredibly situational that is? Even in Vanilla, which was the period if time when Cannibalize was most likely to be usable in a combat situation, it was mostly just used for post-combat recovery. People played Forsaken for Will of the Forsaken, not Cannibalize.
The only thing that cannibalise needs is ‘does not break on damage.’ Meaning it can still be interrupted like any other channelled ability, but just smacking the Forsaken player won’t do the job.
Because, as others have, correctly, pointed out. Cannibalise can be used in combat, provided you don’t have aggro and aren’t taking AoE damage. Recuperate, on the other hand, cannot be used in combat. So Cannibalise has more opportunities to be used, while Recuperate doesn’t.
You mean like almost all racials are?
Sure, there are a few that you will use often (like the Mag’har racial), but almost all others are situational at best and can only be used in specific scenarios.
Doesn’t change the fact that it can be used, though, and in scenarios where you’re stuck in combat because you aggroed a bugged enemy, cannibalise can actually help you heal, whereas recuperate just cannot be used.
I’m surprised Cannibalize was ever considered useful, but I suppose in classic where you had to eat between fights it would have come in handy. As of Cataclysm onward where eating/drinking between fights wasn’t a thing anymore, I fail to see it continuing to have a purpose.
It was more important in WC3 when you needed to heal up your Ghouls.
If Blizzard thought about this at all they’d have renamed it because they deem it inappropriate. It would offend their sensibilities.
To be serious about the topic though. If they reworked it, they should make it a “Feral Lunge” with a heal on a 2-3 minute cd. Assuming they wouldn’t ditch the core concept.
Yes, Cannibalize should restore 100% of our health in 10 seconds.
Regeneratin’ (zandalari racial) does 100% in 6 seconds and it doesn’t even need a corpse.
