Looking @ arenamate, 3v3 players above 2400 the racial breakdown is:
35.9% Orc
18% Human
12% Night Elf
11.5% Undead
7.9% Tauren
6.6% Belf
After belf it falls off to single digits, with my people the pandaren being dead last at 0.4% representation.
Its pretty troll that Orc is allowed to be this dominant, still. Blizzard, take a look at this for dragonflight. Racials dont present anything resembling an interesting choice.
Just make every racial op like warstomp 3 sec duration 30 sec cd
Panda incap 7 sec duration
Stoneform damage reduc increased to 30%
Belf racial is 3 sec blanket silence again
Gift of naaru heals 50% of hp etc.
While this isn’t a terrible idea, I’d rather racials removed from (instanced) PvP altogether.
Avoids min-max of classes / specs to particular races. Even though there may be more distribution of races, it’s stupid if 80% of Rogues still want Night Elf for extra stealth, and 80% of DKs and Shaman want to be Dwarf for another defensive, for example.
Actually wouldnt be a bad idea and add it so dwarf racial and wof dont share cd with trinket.
that’s only Alliance pandaren, with Horde it’s about 2.2%
Also Mechagnome, Kul Tiran, Mag’har, Zandalari, Nightborne, Highmountain, Vulpera and Lightforged are all lower than even Alliance pandas lol
It’s a shame too because Kul Tian are chads
Yeah if they removed them from PVP then it really wouldn’t matter as much. I would like to keep them for nostalgia and monster killing but if it didn’t give an advantage in PVP we would see a lot more diversity.
I am part of the 1 % woo
Imagine if troll racial was a 2min cd like orc… Id be troll all day!
made the change in BFA for that sweet sweet haste, but not letting blizz get any more of my money to switch back, unless orc racial is still dumb in dragonflight. Then we probably gotta go orc
I hope they change something or allow us to pick our racials in pvp. I hate being orc
I rocked Panda Priest in Season 2. Something about having the Versatility food buff in Arenas and other instanced PvP… along with an Incap CC made me feel awezum. 2 min CD unforch.
Panda’s are great. I used to hate on them when they were released, but after playing one, I learned they were actually pretty good.
At least Pandaren has two good racial abilities.
I hope they fix them. Its been Warcraft : orcs vs humans for way too long.
Make us choose racials in pvp like 4th pvp talent slot.
We will be buffed one day
Go to the gym… u will get buffed
From the dracthyr flying post:
The result is that Dracthyr have a drastic efficiency advantage over characters of other races when doing non-Dragon Isles content, whether that’s Chromie Time quests, clearing old raids for transmog, pet battling, etc.
So its all hands on deck to nerf racials impacting transmog and pet battles, but the orcs are allowed to dominate pvp until hardiness gets yeeted out of this game. Nice example of priorities.
You really think orc wouldn’t be the number 1 pick in a game where every class has 3 different stuns? you must wear a helmet to bed.
Yep, they nerfed scalies because of mog farming but won’t touch dwarf in keys nor orc in pvp.
Highmountain seems ok. You’d think %1 verse and aoe charge knockdown would be played more.