Racial changes

[Shastachio-tichondrius]

@Linxy

RACIAL UPDATES

• Developer’s note: We’re making updates to several racial abilities with the goal of increasing the viability of some underrepresented races. Many of these abilities have fallen behind naturally within the game’s ecosystem and our hope is that targeted tweaks will help promote increased diversity of racials across all content types.
• Draenei
  • Gift of the Naaru cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
• Highmountain Tauren
  • Rugged Tenacity’s effect increased by 50%.
• Lightforged Draenei
  • Light’s Judgment radius increased to 10 yards (was 5 yards) and its visual size increased.
  • Light’s Judgment’s damage increased by 40% and it now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
  • Holy Resistance has been renamed to Holy Providence and now increases healing done by 1%.
• Mag’har Orc
  • Stats granted from Ancestral Call increased by 30% and now increases one of your two highest secondary stats.
• Nightborne
  • Arcane Pulse damage increased by 300% and now reduces movement speed by 80% (was 50%). Duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Void Elf
  • Spatial Rift movement speed of the rift increased by 80%, duration is increased to 8 seconds (was 6 seconds), and maximum range increased to 35 yards. The visual effect has been updated and no longer appears for party members.
  • Entropic Embrace: Proc activation rate adjusted, now increases healing and damage by 5% for 12 seconds (was duplicate healing/damage). Now functions with absorbs.
• Vulpera
  • Bag of Tricks healing and damage increased by 40%.
  • Bag of Tricks now decreases enemy movement speed by 80% for 4 seconds and increases ally movement speed by 20% for 4 seconds. Now only affects a single target.
• Worgen
  • Darkflight now stacks its speed bonus with other movement increasing effects.
• Zandalari Troll
  • Regeneratin’ no longer cancels from periodic damage effects, its cooldown is now 3 minutes (was 2.5 minutes), and heals for 50% of your maximum health (was 100%).
  • Embrace of Akuna healing increased by 300% and chance to trigger increased by 250%.
  • Embrace of Bwonsamdi effect increased by 50%.
  • Embrace of Kimbul chance to trigger increased by 400%.

Time to reroll Vulpera

[Kennie-malganis]

I’m so happy. I never thought I’d see the day.

[Christopher-grobbulus]

dang it I was gonna make a thread the other day predicting this was going to happen, so much $$ to be made from race changes if they buff all the other racials after everybody jumped to a select few.

[Shastachio-tichondrius]

None of them compare to nelf/DI dwarf still for pvp

[Ayesha-black-dragonflight]

Can guarantee half of those won’t make it live.

[Kennie-malganis]

@Ayesha-black-dragonflight

Can guarantee half of those won’t make it live

If Shadow Meld is allowed to be mandatory for multiple classes for years while also breaking boss abilities in keys I could see a few unviable races getting slightly less awful perks.

None of them look even remotely as problematic as dwarf/nelf have been.

[Kydrav-khadgar]

Fridge buffs?

Fridge is pleased.

[Exalter-malganis (Exalter)]

Continuing the discussion from 11.0.7 Update PTR Development Notes:

@Linxy

Nightborne

• Arcane Pulse damage increased by 300% and now reduces movement speed by 80% (was 50%). Duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 12 seconds).

I can’t believe someone did a balance pass on this racial and this is what they determined to be fair and in-line with other racials.

[Korrsica-moon-guard]

Glad other racials are getting love, I do wish Humans/KTs that choose Arathi ears would get a new racial.

[Christopher-grobbulus]

Why are they adding more 80% snares to the game

Anything beyond 50 feels terrible

[Sifu-bleeding-hollow (Sifu)]

Where’s the shadowmeld nerf?

[Dicromick-illidan]

that movement speed thing is only relevant in pvp as well… not sure who wanted that

[Ayesha-black-dragonflight]

Funny because the nelf one is negated by one button click in arena ( or zero with pvp addons on all situations).

The troll changes wont make it and neither will vulpera. If they do, theyll be reverted after 2.5 weeks.

[Ijbolina-nordrassil]

@Linxy

Zandalari Troll

• Regeneratin’ no longer cancels from periodic damage effects, its cooldown is now 3 minutes (was 2.5

Didn’t they add the cancel from periodic damage because it ended being way too powerful in certain scenarios? I don’t mind, I have a Zandalari Troll but I can see this being complained about non-stop again, regardless, Shadowmeld will probably still be top racial.

[Mephs-tichondrius]

I’m all for racial updates but these 80% slows ain’t it.

[Nasrajin-sargeras]

@Ijbolina-nordrassil

Didn’t they add the cancel from periodic damage because it ended being way too powerful in certain scenarios?

Nope!

It always had it.

[Chänx-tichondrius]

Oh boy… NEs getting big salty now.

[Demoniclily-kiljaeden (Demoniclily)]

What nothing for undead?! My thing hits for like 10k!

[Shastachio-tichondrius]

You have will of the forsaken

[Urïk-stormrage]

Ooooohhh void elf caster or priest.