Giving everyone the choice of 2 weapon skills benefits Horde wayy more than it does alliance.
Weapon skill is useless for casters.
Humans had one real significant leg up in PvE DPS output which was our weapon skill bonuses now its not even unique.
Give everyone the choice of picking ONE racial from another race PERMANANTLY, this would actually even out the “imbalance” and give benefit to anyone REGARDLESS of class.
At this rate you’re gutting paladins even more and giving shamans a leg up since they don’t have to limit themselves to playing Orc and using Axes. Whereas Humans get what? Axe spec? Polearm Spec?? Our BiS weapons for our melee classes aren’t even those weapon types so why would we care??
Also see how many people actually pick a reputation bonus over something like Blood Fury, or Escape Artist, or Stone Form, or Berserking. It’s nonsensical to compare Rep bonus to an actual usable Racial ability.
Inc people saying that a vague statement by blizzard at the annoucement of sod its enough for players to know that humans would be made useless in 3…2…1…
The statements weren’t vague, they flat out told us that Weapon skill racials would not matter and to pick classes based on Aesthetics or other racials.
Your idea makes no sense the abilities being racials and all. Weapon skills on the other hand can be perfected and excelled by anybody. and it makes no sense for those to be tied to racials.
As long as they include +5 in wands, it isn’t TOTALLY useless (yes it has minimal use) except to Hybrid casters… and then those can take WS in the weapons they use wen they are forced t melee when OoM.
Why is every neckbeard frothing at the mouth for their +5 weapon skill always bring up the same bad argument and then embellish it?
“ThEy SaId It WoUlDn’T mAtTeR”
Not one single person expected them to give a flat free +5 Weapon skill. Weapon skill on new gear, or set bonuses like we have now… yes absolutely, that makes sense. They made no indication of how they were going to deliver said weapon skill. So many people would 100% not have rolled a human if we would have known they would give a flat +5 to any weapon skill of our choice.
Not only does this completely gut the Human racials and race identity, but it also gives nothing to casters.
If you argue +5 wands is a boon, please uninstall immediately.
If you argue 10% Rep is a boon in SoD, also uninstall. The events inflated rep gains devalue that racial almost completely.
If you’re going to argue about perception, not only is it NOT the most useful on use pvp talent the Alliance has considering it only counters 2 classes, for 20 seconds on a 3min cooldown, and you still need to be close enough to the stealthed targets to detect, which if a rogue is sub spec it’s even greatly reduced detection. It pales in comparison to Horde PvP racials like Stun Resist(Which is a perpetual buff, not even on use), AoE Stun, Fear/Sleep/Charm Break and it’s not even close. You can also uninstall.
Wouldn’t it just have been better to give everyone a Flat +1% Hit/Crit? Casters can use it, it doesn’t devalue an entire race and everyone stays happy.
But hey… Humans warriors can take Bow Skill amirite Aggrend? You knob.
Runes that enable a select number (initially) of Racial Abilities might be fun, albeit likely stupid-overpowered in PVP (where damage already significantly exceeds health pools).
If they actually did what they said, they would have made +5 weapon skill a rune. So in order to use it, you have to take up a rune slot for it. Instead of simply giving it to everyone for free with no penalty.
And they added a bunch of new items with weapon skills on them, that was supposed to be the fix. NOT giving literally everyone the racial weapon skill bonuses.
Man Humans are petty. All they can think about is losing their exclusive privilege to sword skill. Nevermind Shaman had to share a unique class buff in windfury to another class to keep you guys happy.
How about you keep your sword Weapon skill exclusivity and give horde back their windfury exclusivity.
Us Orc warriors could say some silly nonsense like, “I never would’ve rolled horde if I knew they’d give windfury to alliance! Orc weapon skill racials are worse than Humans! The draw to horde was windfury and now everyone has it!”
Give up a Passive in order to get +5 weapon skill for PvE throughput? OH NO!
Orcs give up Axe Spec/Command/Hardiness. Zero damage loss.
Tauren gives up Cultivation. Zero damage loss.
Troll gives up Beast Slaying/Bow Spec/Throw Spec. Zero damage loss.
Undead gives up Underwater Breathing. Zero damage loss.
Orcs and Trolls now stack +5 weapon skill and Blood Fury/Berserking to cheese logs, with zero drawback.
He also says here that you would be able to “change weapon skill, in and out” which seems that you can do this anytime, so it hardly come as a penalty.
Blood brother “human” - Gain 2 weapon skill proficiency of your choice
Blood brother “orc” -gain blood frenzy and stun resist.
Etc.
Let players choose 1 of these from every race, so they can have the benefits of their chosen race and 1 other race
First time chosing is free.
After that you can change it for 100g, 150g, 200g, etc up to 500g. Losing 50g cost per month not used down to 100g.
So physical damage can go for the weapon skills or orc racial. Casters can go for specific desired goals like priests taking dwarf for fear ward, or mages taking gnome for extra intelligence.