A person makes one quote and this forum drags it to death.
The meme isn’t new, Star Trek in particular runs heavily on it. As does a lot of fantasy, Human heroes exist in worlds that have species that are stronger, more intelligent, more durable, and more long lived… but thematically they still shine out… because the Human is our insert into these stories and these stories are for us.
Humans in WoW do not represent “us,” as a whole. Neither do humans in many other franchises. In fact many of the aliens use non-western cultures, or even dead cultures like the romans, as their basis. Commander Shepard from Mass Effect is American.
Stormwind is basically the American Disneyland version of a European kingdom. Kul Tiras and Gilneas are parts of the British isles. All of the human cultures used for humans are european derived.
Stormwind is the self insert for humanity as a whole with a medieval coat of paint. There is a reason Blizzard made it more diverse over the year.
Maybe it is.
The human stories in WoW definitely aren’t for me. They’re not the stories I enjoy in WoW.
It being a recurring problem in fantasy settings doesn’t make it good.
But those Human Stories are generally bland and often not very good.
I always thought that the Redpath stories (that family never catches a break) were the most touching. Zelling is also one for the feels.
The best stories are always about the human element. The rest is just setting and stage.
So about that
https://www.wowhead.com/news/new-human-racial-in-the-war-within-reduced-hearthstone-cooldown-2-charges-342171
Turns out no, no we are not getting a new racial lmao.
You are… not just one that’s going to change the Horde dominance in end game, not that the original racial was relevant either.
The best racial for M+ by far is a Nelf racial…
passive? Isn’t it shadowmeld, the active one?
Yeah I’m an idiot, meant to type Racial.
But Dwarves (both!) are also in a good place, I haven’t done a lot of high end play in DF but as far as I’m aware the Alliance races aren’t hurting for top tier racials.
There are reasons why all of the top elite Raid guilds are Horde. Horde generally has better racials for raiding, Alliance for leveling.
Hey who needs end game when we can now reads hearth faster!
Bubble Hearthing Human Paladins… the leveling spec of choice!
Lets not forget how great this racial will be for all Mage Humans!
Not completely useless at all!
Wouldn’t a mage Human set their hearth at a non capital city anyway?
For example, a Mage might set their hearth at some podunk Netherstorm or Shadowmoon Valley hub, since they have a major city portal (Shattrath).
They still get 2 uses of their hearthstone.
Oh damn you are right, this racial is OP, needs a nerf.
One of the things I absolutely love about playing one.
Maybe my next mage will be Vulpera, portals, heartstones, and camps!
I also collect teleportation rings and toys which are all manged by the Tome of Teleportation addon which should be quite handy the next time I want to sacrifice a squirrel to portal to the Black Temple.