I’ve narrowed down my race choice on DK to NE and gnome.
I love gnomes, generally, and I have leveled an unbelievable number of gnomes across Classic and SOM (it’s a lot…)
But I think I’m starting to get sick of them. I like that their mounts are bugged to be larger, but armor on them just doesn’t look great. I also think the meme of gnomes wore off 10 years ago.
Night elf however is gaining Vanish-like shadowmeld. After discovering that you can negate damage in PVP with it the same way you can with vanish on a rogue, it’s pulling me back over to NE DK. Before learning you can vanish casts (which I’ll honestly never master), I just thought it would be cool to have a huge hulking DK anyway with great looking armor and huge weapons. Aside from Shadowmeld and the looks, I really don’t have any other reason to choose NE.
I feel like just by typing this out, I’m convincing myself to play NE, but would like to hear your thoughts.
For what it’s worth, I know both of these racial choices are subpar compared to human, but I don’t like humans.
Night Elf casting animation is ugly, and it looks really bad when using Death Grip. Be warned.
Edit - Unless you play female.
I like both male and female NE. I will make both on the beta later tonight and check out their casting animations. Thank you for replying!
TBH Night elf male looks terrible for literally anything. Female animations are much better looking, though I wouldn’t go NE for DK anyway. I’d go human for the expertise and rep buffs. Maybe gnome if you’re going to PvP.
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I mean you missed the reason to go human, but even with that OP racial I still won’t play human. It just doesn’t appeal to me to go human in a fantasy game.
Also regarding PVP, racials do matter in PVP, but less so when you consider the fact that the last time I hit Gladiator in WoW was S3 of original TBC. I don’t think a racial is going to change the fact that I’m not Glad material in the modern day
Every man is not the reason to go human. I’d go gnome for any melee class because you can get PvP trinket and escape artist. Humans can’t get escape artist at all. Every man is also more or less useless in most PvE scenarios.
Your Alliance Death Knight should be a femdorf, like mine will be. Best /lol is greater than any racial ability.
ho ho hah hoho hahhah
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Well for the tens of thousands who want to reroll alliance in wrath, night elves do make good tanks as dungeon demand for tanks will be high, in addition they are about 7ft tall.
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Female night elf is always the correct choice.
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agreed, wotlk 5mans are really hard, make sure u minmax them for 1% dodge
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Female gnome, green pig tails.
I’d go gnome personally, escape artist is nice and you’ll save some money if you decide to go engineering for rocket boots (which I would because no mobility) with the extra points you get. Plus if you’re female, pigtails. If you’re male, pretty sweet facial hair.
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If you ever intend to tank in a dungeon or raid, don’t go Gnome or Dwarf. The number of LoS issues they cause is absurd.
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We go nelf for the flips, not the dodge.
I’m pretty sure this is fixed in Wrath along with puddle swimming. Could be wrong. I’ll test later.
If you insist on being Alliance then you want Draenei; they don’t really compare to Tauren or Orc Shoulders, but I’ve never considered NE to be “hulking”.
Draenei isn’t an option for me. It’s pretty much NE or gnome.
Night Elf ears look like rubber dongs.
this is the only correct answer