Hidden Nerf to Taurens in The Burning Crusade [PvP/Arena]

[Rebloom-earthfury]

@Dannybill-herod

Imagine being so washed up that you actually are trying to argue for a mechanic that allows you to smack people THROUGH pillars.

@Dannybill-herod

So you’re going allow people to abuse an awful game flaw?

Nobody should ever be attacking through any sort of wall or pillar.

Imagine being so washed up your toxicity got owned in one day.

[Dannybill-herod]

Yikes, take that cringe with you.

[Poundcakes-arugal]

Someone high up at Blizzard plays a Tauren warrior.

[Nerf-arugal]

You spent 2 years as an orc with overpowered racials in vanilla, but now is the time of the Tauren.

[Chodemodjr-tichondrius]

justice for the cows

[Lostshinobi-alexstrasza]

Why would you enjoy beating someone you have a clear advantage over? I have watched you play you are a good warrior you are holding yourself back if you depend on that.

Beating people who outgear you is literally the best dopamine this game offers.

[Ssheila-kirtonos]

yeah, thats what the man said. its their game, they decide if someone should be attacking through any sort of wall or pillar, not us.

What i like about it is that it is only a Tauren vs Tauren problem. 2 bonuses there for me. I hate horde and I think cows are more ridiculous than pandas as a toon. win/win.

[Fillip-benediction]

I spose I can stop leveling this guy now

nvm just saw that blue post lol, back to grinding I guess lol

[Blayser-moon-guard (Blayser)]

Read the blue post.

@Aggrend-1483

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the commentary and replies about this. I wanted to take a quick second to point you all to the Not A Bug list and a comment I posted there on this issue:

• Large and small character models have slight differences in their combat reach, accurate to the original experience and distances.
  • Developers’ notes: It has been widely reported during the Burning Crusade Classic beta that Tauren have lost their “combat reach” in Arena specifically. This is not the case. While moving, Tauren may hit other Tauren through the widest point in the pillar in the Ring of Trials arena in Nagrand. This behavior is identical to the original functionality in The Burning Crusade.

While this is accurate, there is currently an issue that we are aware of that causes hitboxes, particularly Tauren hitboxes, to change size after being affected by polymorph effects until the affected character logs out of the game. We are going to work on a fix for this ahead of the launch of Burning Crusade Classic and the start of the first Arena season, but that would definitely explain some of what has been noted here.

Thanks for the commentary here and everyone’s reports so far in the Burning Crusade Classic beta!

[Bedrockz-faerlina]

I agree with Sonydigital, and that’s saying a lot because I don’t normally agree with anything this guy says. Changing the hit box changes the entire dynamic of Tauren characters. This puts players that main Taurens in a bad spot. Why nerf Tauren warriors, shaman, druids, hunters because of a “pillar”?

[Chucktaurus-kromcrush]

Trust me. We are a small niche, but its one of the things a lot of classic players like about tauren, just like some people like female models for warsong jumps, or gnomes for the smallest model. Thanks for clearing this up.

[Turugar-whitemane]

Even if Tauren have greater reach, and their target is bigger, it’s clear just from watching videos of the pillar that the attacker and target aren’t anywhere close to each other, despite the larger character model of Tauren.

A reach of 20 yds is insane and looks ridiculous.

[Zealous-arcanite-reaper]

So…they are leaving the hit range in??

My buddy is a Tauren War, this is important to him lol.

[Chippiing-wyrmrest-accord]

Are we seriously discussing if hitting behind a pillar was an intended game mechanic?

[Drsocksphdmd-emerald-dream]

@Sonydigital-faerlina

Without any discussion or feedback from players testing the Beta… the devs normalized Tauren hitbox to be the same as every other Races ONLY in arena.

This type of thing needs to be fought tooth and nail every single time they do it… Blizzard has proven themselves to be profoundly incapable of making the right decision for WoW.

What makes me outraged is that they:

1. Thought it would be more fair to everyone by removing only 1 classes’ racial
2. Thought no one would care/notice

Every single thing about this change, tells me that someone who has literally never done arena before, was who made this decision…

[Orbitar-netherwind]

Hey Sonydigital! Say hi to Venruki for me ;D! This is Orbitar from Blackrock. Thank you for getting me into PvP and showing me the ropes in early TBC.

Good catch man! Taurens 4 life.

-Orb

[Dredlight-blackhand]

TL;DR: version:

OP believes it is "DEVESTATING" that Tauren’s hit box was made EQUAL to all other classes in arena ONLY. lulz

[Ysdier-alexstrasza]

I already posted how they should just make race an aesthetics thing and nothing more making people perform based on skill and skill alone but was scoffed at.

No race should have benefits of hitting further, it doesn’t need to have real physics involved because it’s a fantasy world. I don’t get what’s up with all the catering to horde all the time.

[Mudbrick-whitemane]

You won’t hit glad or anything pasts 1.3k anyway, why bother writing this essay nobody will read?

[Rugpull-thunderfury]

Let tauren hunters shoot through pillars, it’s only fair.