i’m not blaming anything. a racial isn’t going to hold you back much. I’m pointing out that in the high brackets, there isn’t much in the way of racial diversity. and that’s because some of the racials are just way better. It’s just a fact. 20% stun reduction and a free stun trink are objectively better for arena than any other racial.
you CAN push glad with any race, but most of the glads are one of the five races i mentioned. i don’t see a problem in saying that some more options would create better spreads for the game. there’s no good reason why, as someone pointed out, that 16 of the 21 races hardly get played and 70% of the bracket consists of just 5 races.
well, i want to reiterate that i’m completely aware that you can push any rating on any race (it was pretty much what i started my post with). I still think the prevalence of the top 5 races is directly because of how preferable their racials are in arena.
nearly 50% of ranked players are human or orc. i don’t think that’s just an aesthetic thing. it’s because humans and orcs are the best pvp races.
one of the big things about bfa was the addition of allied races. i truly believe that if either a) other racials were improved or b) humans and orcs were nerfed so as to not be the default pvp choice, we’d see a wider range of toons in the high bracket.
edit: i also think it’s in blizzard’s best interest to make more races “viable” (i use that word loosely because i know that any race can be used). they don’t get most of their money from subs nowadays. if people had more reasons to race change, they could line their pockets with pvpers race changing.
Tauren are played because Troll sucks. The best druid racial by far is Shadowmeld. Nothing else is even close to that. Druids are locked Horde because every moron in the game seems to like to be ugly people so to be in a competitive community we’re stuck between crappy haste bonus or 2sec aoe stun.
I don’t understand the point of this thread, at all. As the title is clearly false. Any race is viable. Racials barely affect the outcome of the match, <1% impact on win rate. Obviously, some race will always be the best race for each specific spec, and top players will pick that because they care more about winning than aesthetics. But any race is ‘viable’.
