What are the best options that are not Blood Elf?
Edit: Thinking of Brew Monk
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orc. panda… choose whatever you want.
-raises paw-
Please don’t give the “just play what you want” response. I am genuinely curious as to what is the strongest race option is for Tanks.
Orc’s stun reduction is surely pretty amazing.
I was curious about Highmountain Tauren? The passives are very little, but they also have some added interrupt/mobility.
For me tauren because of the stomp and vulperas have a good passive racial too
Vulpera is definitely interesting. I never even though to look at them lol.
Pandaren racials are nothing to scoff at, particularly the Epicurean ability.
Believe it or not, vulpera are surprisingly tanky in battles where there are constantly adds and additional mobs coming in.
Here’s a breakdown on one of their racials that I had posted in another topic about a month ago:
Nose For Trouble:
Let’s break this down.
First hit that an enemy does to you is reduced by 5% of your max HP. If you have 50K HP, then that means the very first hit an enemy gets on you can be reduced by up to 2.5K HP. Not overly useful in a prolonged battle, but amazing for a tank as it isn’t just the first hit period but the first from EACH mob that gets pulled. The health pool on a vulpera can be somewhat deceptive in that manner.
Better still: this actually makes them somewhat hard to dismount/daze if you’re on the ground and looking to get from point A>B as fast as possible. The daze mechanic is tied to getting hit directly in the back by a physical based attack. Several factors go into how high or low a daze chance is, however an attack actually has to do damage to you in order to daze you. If 100% of the damage done is absorbed or prevented, then the chance to get dazed drops to zero.
Most non-elite mobs aren’t going to be able to hit you hard enough to do damage on that very first hit if your HP is high enough (especially if you’re a plate class). If you’re mounted, more often than not you’ll be out of melee attack range by the time the mob is able to make a second attack. Unless the attacker is able to somehow match your mount speed and keep pace, the odds of getting knocked off your mount via daze are exceptionally low.