What did i miss something.
Racials are fine.
Rich coming from a monk. The games movement speed broke when Monk was introduced ruining PvP. They were miles ahead of other melee. So Blizz was forced to buff all other melee mobility. By doing that uptime increased and Casters now neeeded to be Tanky. The slippery slope began back then and went downhill again when DH entered chat.
All Drathyr does is give everyone access to being like a DH. Sounds like that is fair. Drathyr Prot War might be nice.
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For Shadowmeld not to feel as significant as it does now, the game needs slower, more staggered burst outputs. Now you have a thousand things happening all at once, and the Meld just nullifies all of them if timed properly, plus a little pinch of luck xD
This is irrelevant for 99% of players. Your racial isnât gatekeeping you. Mmr is not gatekeeping you. Partners arenât gatekeeping you. The meta isnât gatekeeping you. Randomly fighting good players isnât gatekeeping you.
Just play the game and stop finding ways to mask your own inability to climb.
Yall woulda exploded playing any pre BFA expansion.
The only EDITS that should be made to racials are:
- Meld shouldnât activate subterfuge, drinking / eating should always break stealth and the cd to enter it should go up. This way druids get drinks less.
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Nah son, ur getting warstomped and thatâs all there is to it.
Iâm able to climb just fine thanks, stop assuming people canât play just because they hold different opinions than you.
I think its totally possible to achieve duelist and even glad with suboptimal race picks, but this does not change the fact that meld is completely busted. I run night elf on all of my characters that can because of the sheer insane value I get out of it every game.
Iâd love to play Kul Tiran and haymaker the daylights out of someone or even Highmountain and rock those antlers, but thereâs no way Iâm going to play without meld and actually handicap myself.
I just think everyone should be on the same playing field regardless of which race they pick.
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it starts way before 2.1
Okay, as soon as players stop acting like theyâre critically locked to a race to achieve any level of success, or like theyâre genuinely hindered by choosing a diff race.
Yeah where did I disagree with this?
What do you define as handicap? You should be able to achieve similar results regardless of your chosen race, save for rogue/druid/maybe one more I can think of because not @ desk.
By disabling all of them? Sounds boring. Should just give everyone the same defensive and offensives too. That way everyone is equal.
Go play chess.
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I think if the game was any slower then no one would die ever.
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Well, itâs quite a delicate balance (it seems) between having burst stagger in a way that allows any reaction time at all, vs everybody being cleave oneshot as in some DF shenanigans⌠
I think disabling them in pvp is the move. Theyâre never going to balance them unless they completely overhaul them and turn them all into very boring stat buffs. At that point, why even have them.
Also, anyone saying the difference for best racials is negligible doesnât understand player behavior. People min max nowadays and do whatever it takes to be optimal. The differences may be negligible but it still disrupts the community just the same.
You should try it. Dopamine Infusion incoming. Let them stand next to a cliffâŚgoodbye little blue pill.
Absolutely not. Racials are 100% fine. And some classes depend on them.
You would give a huge nerf to shaman without dwarf/dark iron / orc
Itâs 100% needed to survive assas rogue / feral teams.
Iâm still waiting to be able to que random bgs with friends that are horde/ally on the same team
Yeah, itâs super fun, but itâs miles behind meld in terms of utility and also suffers from diminish returns
I love the highmountain charge, too, but thatâs a bad racial compared to having shorter stuns, exiting combat and avoiding burst entirely, and now, gliding across the map with stupid dragons on top of two aoe knockups that are separate from most dr chains.
I prefer all weak racials to be buffed.
Example, Lightforged draenei 3% increased holy damage.
Maâghar 3% increased physical damage.
Can you teach me!?
Why not?
I think racials that can be used incorrectly should be more powerful then passives. Smeld, as people have said just shouldnât lose combat and shouldnât give stealth bonuses to rogues.
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Honestly, I think they just need to do a full rebalance/redesign on racials as a whole across the entire game. PVE players are already freaking out about dragons glide being a passive 40% move increase/knockback immunity and how everyones going to have to swap. Just let us be whatever we think looks cool because right now certain racials are just handicapping yourself if you donât play them which makes you potentially hate the way your character looks (me with my dwarf pallys).
Iâm sure theyâll hotfix dragon racials so we can continue to be 100% nelf/dwarf for keys.
Sike itâs because itâll affect raid encounter design and balance.