With allied races all being given death knight as class options, I’m wondering how good nightbornes will be with their passives. If frost death knight spells are considered magic, would nightborne be a good choice for one?
I have never once based my character creation off of racials. I feel like unless you’re trying to push Mythic raiding, it really doesn’t matter.
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their racial slow is garbage, so you don’t roll a Nightborne DK for the racials.
I am rolling it because I love the NIghtborne
but a free mailbox, yeah that’s nice
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I’m doing Death Knight Vulpera, its so cute it’ll squeeze YOU to death!
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Dalaran Gaming made a video with his ideas on which Allied Races would make the best DKs vs which would be subpar based on their racials. Not sure if I can link it but I’ll try… Link experiment!
But yeah I go off of what looks coolest to me. 
I’m generally of this mindset. Sometimes the on use racials are pretty nice for less serious content too (I loved the old Arcane Torrent when I wanted to move a group of casters while tanking 5-mans) but ultimately they’re probably not going to be enough to play a race you can’t stand otherwise.
That’s why I specified passives. Their on use is straight garbage, I was talking about the extra magic damage.
but it’s …what…1%? that’s not really enough to even bother making it a consideration even by min/maxing standards.
Look at it this way, DK with pvp talent would be a combined 9% damage off those two combined.
without the talent it’s 1%, so 1000 damage would be 1010
with them combined it’s 1090…
a whopping 80 points. when even players have 3-400k health pools.
To me, I’d just say go by what looks cool.
I’ll keep saying it till it sticks:
No matter what a few super top tier people, and pretend top tier people tell you, NO RACIAL is too good to matter what race to play.
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Our racials, like everything else about us, are garbage. Only roll a Nightborne if you like the look of them.