For all the crying over racials unless you are chasing world firsts or participating in top end M+ or Arena (like the top 1% of players which none of us are) the impact of racials is way overblown.
It isnât, and anyone who does challenging content knows it - regardless of whether theyâre in the top 1% or not.
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No they just like to pretend it does. This game isnât balanced finely enough that a 1% racial performance boost is going to make or break an entire encounter. Unless you end up with a mechanic that can be cheesed by a particular racial that isnât going to be the determining factor. And that situation will eventually be fixed.
The primary Mythic-only mechanic on Sark was removable with Stoneform and was never fixed. And having the solo tank be able to solo-remove that or not could mean the difference between a kill, and a wipe.
You simply donât know what youâre talking about, because you donât do these fights.
Bombs on Tindral? Removable with Stoneform. Never fixed.
Stacks on Fyrrak? Removable with Stoneform. Never fixed.
Spider DoTs on Queen? Removable with Stoneform. Might be fixed, but I doubt it.
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Jinyu would be cool
Or the Naga
Or true High Elves
Or Furbolgs (Iâll translate)
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I never get this sort of logic.
If a Racial is a slight edge for the top 1%, that means it is an even bigger edge for the other 99% .
If it is a slight boost to the most skilled, it is an even bigger boost for every one else.
So stoneform does what it is supposed to do? I assume that is working as intended. Wonder why every tank isnât a dwarf then? I mean if racials are sooooo important every tank should be race changing asap.
What is that? They arenât you say? Weird.
Maybe it is because anyone playing at a high enough level that the only room for improving their performance any further is a small racial boost is already playing at a level well above what the game is balanced for.
And anyone not playing at that level has more important optimizations they can make rather than worrying about whether they have the correct racial or not.
Racials are fitting right about where they should. A cool little trinket that is occasionally useful but isnât going to be game breaking.
In challenging content, they pretty much are.
Well what else are you going to do? Have a blood elf tank? Look at their arms.
Just taking a quick look at raider io almost 30 of the top 50 tanks are Horde so they obviously arenât using stoneform. I kind of doubt all the Alliance ones are dwarves either. Know what I did notice? 49 of them are Paladins lol. There are a lot bigger concerns doing top end content than your racial.
I have the name Koopa reserved in case they ever give us Tortollan. Probably will be holding it until WoW shuts down.
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Another Elf Made it to Character Creation Screen!
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The discussion runs itself in circles. At least everyone agrees upon the notion that the Alliance isnt a good faction for racial diversity and this needs to be fixed.
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No Iâm aware. Just donât see that they would care on top of everything else since and a chance for either retaking their home or safety.
Like I said though, they could use that concept to go Alliance or they could have them not care enough about it and go Horde. I can see them do either.
Jinyu have regularly been a popular request actuallyâŚ
Also every race has had threads about âwe never asked for thisâ.
They also very much need to fix the Alliance major character representation. Itâs all humans and elves. We might see a dwarf, a draenei, or a gnome every once in a blue moon. Even when we see âworgenâ characters like Greymane theyâre in their human forms 90% of the time.
Blizzard doesnât want to use the races already in the Alliance and just throws more humans at us.
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Iâm really surprised nobody ever has this called out from the CC. Itâs very bad storytelling.
The Nepo babies will not bite the hand that gilded their lily.
I think Ion is the actual last big holdout at this point.
I was almost convinced cross faction in major cities would lead to a lot of kinda toxic RP (I am still dreading the possibility that Silvermoon will be flooded in Cathedral Square nonsense if they lean too hard on the wannabe MHP Blood knights, even though I have no fundamental issue with SMC being a neutral hub for an expansion and mostly appreciate the fact that this means it will finally get a barber) but after seeing some of it in Belâameth I am cautiously optimistic that it might actually be cooler.
Friendly rivalry stuff in Farstrider square and mending rifts stuff might actually heal how I feel about this game.
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I just wish blizzard would stop playing safe and start making use of their technology instead of pussyfooting around it.
You add the whole body type one and two thing for inclusivity, But now you can literally justify it through things like playable nerubians with drone caste, scarab lord, vizier, and ascended.
A race that would absolutely benefit from the dracthyr customization menu.
Ogres, gnolls, naga, arrakoa; All of these races have had visual updates and even Skeletal and armor overhauls to place them in the field of player races over the past few years.
Itâs seriously just seems like blizzard is holding these races back because they keep writing themselves into a corner.
We really shouldâve had garroshes mongrel horde expansion If it was going to take thirty thousand lore loopholes to justify making them playable.
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They even have a sort of test for it already, itâs still the same rig so itâs not a huge difference, but dracthyr drake form has 4 levels of bulk