So, how is Regeneratin' working out?

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

Still want the death laser for my normie goat

As a shaman, who…per Blizzard…is expected to die (reincarnation is seen as a defensive CD, hence we don’t get ones like other classes), I, too, would love death lasers.

[Autai-moon-guard (Autai)]

As a shaman, who…per Blizzard…is expected to die (reincarnation is seen as a defensive CD, hence we don’t get ones like other classes), I, too, would love death lasers.

Clearly they just want to ruin our immersion with a lack of death beams. Also, that reincarnation thing just sounds so wrong.

[Lightfang-elune (Lightfang)]

They seem to forget about it, because its just not that game changing. I am sure it would hypothetically help here and there.

But the amount of crying over this racial as Zandy’s went live, was outrageous. People were constantly saying how it would literally break PVE/PVP. How everyone would be mass race changing to Zandy for both PVE and PVP. You were laughed at if you even mentioned that the Alliance would still have the best m+ racial.

I don’t know, I find it pretty useful so far. The last change they made fixed a majority of the issues with it though.

Still, the people in this thread saying they forget about it is obviously not playing challenging content, ya know, where it would be useful on the initial heal. Especially for those classes with no self heals.

Can easily save you from a death, just like other racials.

But hey! People forget about shadowmeld and the DID racial in casual content from what I notice too!

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

Also, that reincarnation thing just sounds so wrong.

It really is. The insane cooldown timer on it is just mind boggling.

https://twitter.com/warcraft/status/901073778981122050

This is from an “AskWoWDevs” series on Twitter back in 2017

#AskWoWDevs Any plans of giving Shaman better (more) defensive cooldowns/ reworking Reincarnation to be more raid-friendly?

Response:

We’re happy with the Shaman defensives, deciding when/if to use Reincarnation is part of the skill of using it

I don’t know, I find it pretty useful so far. The last change they made fixed a majority of the issues with it though.

Oh its useful for sure. I never tried to imply it wasn’t, and if I came across that way it was not my intent.

I was only speaking at it being “game changing” or “game breaking”. Many racials are extremely useful, and thats fine. Thats actually great. It gives races some flavor outside of being purely cosmetic.

But during the release of the Zandy race, it was wildly spammed on the forums how the racial would literally break the game. In PVP and PVE. Raiding and M+. Everyone would mass race change due to how strong the racial would be. You would have full Zandy raid/m+/arena groups.

But we just don’t see that happening. More people are picking Zandy based on how they look than the racial. Alliance still has the strongest mdi/M+ racial.

The racial is strong in certain niches. So are others. And that is fine. It doesn’t turn the game upside down. Thats all I was trying to convey.

[Spiçy-area-52 (Spiçy)]

Pretty worthless in PvE. I’m rarely in danger of dying and in the instances I am I can rarely get it off due to damage. Bubble regen is ok, but tbh it’s only a small gain over bubble FoL/WoG spamming

It’s being OP in PvE was completely over exaggerated as many of us expected. But that’s the forums in a nutshell. Overreact before even testing it

[Autai-moon-guard (Autai)]

That was as bad as Hotlinka saying blink is like a heal. Reincarnation is unique to their class, so that answer was a bit odd.

[Zeropointt-dalaran (Zeropointt)]

But the amount of crying over this racial as Zandy’s went live, was outrageous.

So was the amount of crying over Dark Iron. And the Zandy racial was OP before the nerf. It’s like people forgot that part.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

So was the amount of crying over Dark Iron. And the Zandy racial was OP before the nerf. It’s like people forgot that part

But people still complained it non stop after the nerf. People complained about this current version of regeneratin’. Claiming this version would break the game.

[Lightfang-elune (Lightfang)]

But during the release of the Zandy race, it was wildly spammed on the forums how the racial would literally break the game.

Well in the original state, it was very OP, just like the DID racial was.

They changed the way it worked some, and now it’s balanced.

Beforehand it was an instant 20% hp heal right off the bat, then 40% if no damage happened within 1 second.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

They changed the way it worked some, and now it’s balanced.

Beforehand it was an instant 20% hp heal right off the bat, then 40% if no damage happened within 1 second

Yes. I get that. And many people still complained about it. After the nerf. That is what I am referring to.

[Lightfang-elune (Lightfang)]

I did for a bit, until they made it scale with the time casted itself. I like it the way it is now

I wouldn’t mind a slight buff to the initial heal now though. Seems very weak at the start for its CD.

[Evelolyn-area-52]

it broke the game! It is still broken, no one can log in anymore!

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

Z-ReGen is so 2 months ago… lets wail about Mount Equipment and how IT will destroy all of creation.

[Autai-moon-guard (Autai)]

Z-ReGen

So i read that first and thought you were calling people the reeeee- generation.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

…I like it!

[Zeropointt-dalaran (Zeropointt)]

Mount Equipment and how IT will destroy all of creation.

Nobody claiming that either. Just that removing the Water Strider’s ability to actually, you know…walk on water is a step backwards.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

Its going to be, you know… ok.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

For reference, Jan 8th (per changelog) is when Regeneratin’ was nerfed. If it happened at a different date, my bad. I am just going by what info I can find.

Blizzard Logic is getting confusing

Well they start out with aggro on someone. That’s why blizzard did that so it can’t be avoided. It basically acts as them seeing you.

Here is a thread where right as 8.1.5 was going to hit, people were still saying Regeneratin’ was going to break the game, and the Night Elf racial was basically meh for M+.

[Tarc-fenris (Tarc)]

It requires some competency to use properly, but it is definitely crazy strong for some classes in certain situations. Game changing, honestly.

Running alliance alt last night, ran into a zandapal who bubbled and regenerated, so that was cool.

[Evelolyn-area-52]

people were still saying Regeneratin’ was going to break the game

And it did!

Yesterday, I tried to log in to WoW at like… 5am PST for almost an hour. I couldn’t! I finally gave up and just concluded it was broken for good! I blame Regeneration!!