Any thoughts on the best race for PVP? I don’t care about being Alliance vs Horde, or aesthetics.
I’ve heard overall Orc is still best because of the small amount of additional stun resistance and Blood Fury, but on the Alliance side Dark Iron Dwarf for the dispel, or Night Elf for Shadowmeld.
Is Night Elf’s Shadowmeld all that great, considering Hunters can get Camouflage?
How is Gnome as a choice as well? Does having the 1 min root break allow you to choose other good pet options for PVP (I don’t know much about Hunter pets)?
Dark Iron Dwarf racial seems pretty strong; if you didn’t care about Alliance vs Horde, seems like it would be superior to Orc racial, no? What do you think?
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Shadowmeld is awesome. Second to that I like cannibalize - undead.
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Ah yeah I’m leaning towards that! Know if it’s true that Dark Iron Dwarf racial also triggers PVP Trinket cooldown?
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The other day I saw the daze or slow from a Feral Druid lunge and decided to Shadowmeld like .5 seconds after. Completely avoided the rake stun from stealth! If you’re insane Night Elves are amazing.
That was mostly dumb luck, won the arena nonetheless! I just thought that was so cool after I realized what happened 
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pandaren for a free stun/interrupt and they have the most mounts that fit the pandaren theme and cool poses and all pandarias beasts and matching mounts are easier to aquire.
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Kul’tiran for the POW. You got close to me? Go… away!
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Human are the best in the game since they have a get out a jail free card for a racial so you can use dps trinkets
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Lots of different opinions here!
I’m a little concerned about the skill-level and precise (sometime luck) timing needed to successfully pull off a Shadowmeld “grounding” of a spell being cast on me. Is this generally a very difficult thing to do? What’s the grace period (time) of “grounding” you have once you hit the button? Edit: actually I guess you stay Shadowmelded until you move, eh? Do dots that were on you prior to Shadowmeld break it?
Because of this, I’m feeling that I should lean more towards Dark Iron Dwarf, or perhaps consider the other options you all have mentioned.
That’s a good point too. Can you mix and match any/all of the PVP trinkets now? Meaning you could do double-dps PVP trinkets? Imagine this gives Human the most versatility–err adaptability-- to the situations at hand by being able to switch trinkets, no?
Thank y’all!
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I believe you can. The only human character I have is my pve warrior so I havent actually tested it myself, but I have friends that talk about it.
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Human I’d say, though orc is still really good imo. NE and DI are both really good situational picks.
For surv, sleeper pick is HM tauren. 1% vers and bullrush has so many uses.
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It destroy projectiles.
It’s hard to master but used properly you can avoid stuff like storm bolt, chaos bolt, mortal coil, glacial spike, axe toss (that one will get you accused of scripting, rightly so), lava burst (if you see an ele use ascendance you can deny its burst if you’re fast enough), etc.
It also break target and cancel channels like feign death would so it’s good against the same stuff feign death is good against if your feign death is on CD, like another hunter rapid fire or an arcane mage arcane missiles or to avoid casted CC like fear, polymorph or sleep walk.
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If you wear the 2 pvp trinkets and have the crafted pvp boots this racial is pointless because they do not stack. Shadowmeld is the best racial for most stealth classes. Having a way to break stuns every 45 seconds as a Hume is very powerful also.
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Night elf for meld, Dark iron for the damage cd and dot removal (really good into sin rogue dk and feral) and Void elf for mm against melee cleaves. Human is in there too because it allows you to rock bm trinket with badge but id rank lower than those 3
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With Goblins you get a gapmaker which also doubles as acrobatic utility. That can be useful for high-altitude engagements. If you want to be an Airborne Ranger Goblin is a Gucci choice.
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Thanks! Fought against a good Hunter in a BG and saw a good use of Shadowmeld! However, the Dark Iron Dwarf ability and PVP trinket are on different CDs, right? In that case, that really seems like the best racial!
Wowpedia says “Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic, and bleed effects and increases your primary stat by 100 for each effect removed. Lasts 8 sec.” so… it can remove CC like Polymorph, right?
Edit: seems like it puts PVP trinket on a 30 sec CD, which is weird considering it seems like it actually doesn’t remove CC… hmm, not sure how that matches with the description!
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Goblin Hunter is my favorite. The extra gap with rocket jump makes the class surprisingly fun. Fly multiple times across your tar trap or disengage + rocket jump to create a gap that out ranges every ability.
Is it AWC material? probably not, but it is the most fun you can have with hunter.
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