Yeah, like i wrote i one of the other threads reg. this topic.
If you read the in game description of the human race, it says:
“The human kingdom of Stormwind forms the backbone of the Alliance. Stormwind’s willingness to work with others to find diplomatic solutions stands out as one of its true strengths. Its citizens hold fast to the principles of honor and justice as they defend their settlements, and the Alliance, against any aggressors.”
But with the extremely bad replacement talent, maybe the human info text will end up like this?
“The human kingdom of Stormwind forms the backbone of the Alliance. Stormwind’s willingness to run back home all the time really shows it’s lack of strengths. Its citizens hold fast to the principles of honor and justice as they defend their settlements, and the Alliance, against any aggressors, until their heartstone is of cooldown so they can leave.”
This is such a bad move from Blizzard. Sure replace diplomacy but give humans something useful!
Between the og/legacy hearthstone, the free “Legion Dalaran” hearthstone, and the Garrison hearthstone there are plenty of existing ways to zip around the map
…and that’s not even including Engineering stuff, toys, “built-in” class abilities (Shaman/Mage/DK/Druid/etc), and similar extra portal options
Zipping/portal’ing around the map is already so easy, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a player “complaining” about travel options in retail - they are already very abundant as it is
I mean, you could have your main hearth set to whatever expansion’s prime city — then your racial hearth set nearby your regular transmog & mount raid-run location.
Or maybe one in a city and another in a particular town or the other side of the continent where there’s frequented content at the time to save you a long flight.
I said a big quality of life improvement – which it would be.
— Not a “Whoa that makes me overpowered and mighty!” improvement
I wouldn’t say it’s a minute for all places.
Sure there’s lots of avenues, but there’s other places that are a bit of a pain to reach or get towards — Even with “eventual” means, having a quicker route there certainly helps.
Not to mention if there’s a weekly quest you frequently do in whatever content or expansion at the time, you can pick up the quest in the city – Hearth to the quest location, pop them & then hearth back to the city location; whilst everyone else has to goof around an extra 5 to 10 minutes travelling there & back again.
The racial would have been great like 15 years ago, but with the amount of ways you can teleport everywhere through things like M+ portals and the bajillion and one toys that teleport you places (plus lower HS cd in general) it’s a pretty weak replacement for Diplomacy.
Not that I expected them to give anything half as useful as Diplomacy, but something like “regain dragonriding energy twice as fast out of combat” would have been significantly better.
When deciding who I would make a paladin, I ended up choosing human. Though if darkspear or dracthyr can ever be paladin’s than I will probably switch over.
Nothing wrong with vanilla every once in awhile after all.
