Okay so why is this a Racial? I have never once found a good use for that thing… i LOVE void elves more than any other race, but that active is pretty much nonexistant. When you compare that active to others… it’s just useless.
Human, Remove CC
Dwarf, Reduce Damage
Night Elf, Stealth (i would argue the best racial in the game for PvE)
Gnomes, just a bunch of nice passives
Draenei, Heals
Worgen, Movement Speed
Panda, cc
Light Forged, huge AOE damage
Dark iron, Mobility around the world
Fat Human, Large damage
then you look at the void elf… a slow moving TP that moves slower than you do. You are better by just running!
I love void elves, i really do, but they feel underwhelming sometimes. Maybe give them an active that makes a target hear the whispers of the void and you do more damage to them, or a short fear, hell even a perma 30% slow as long as you keep casting it. Just anything that can do something that’s helpful…
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Its a good racial to juke with in pve. Void elves are powerful casters. Especially kiters. That on a mage is pretty good.
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I also never use it, i just cant find any real use.
It would be better if it worked like the Mages blink or something similar
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False. Really good example of how to use it is in Arena by making use of the Z-axis encounter methods. In other words, you’re playing something and need to get distance. You use the velf racial on higher territory (such as the bridge in Blade’s Edge) and then drop down. When the enemy chases you, you then port back up. This makes it so you can free heal or cast and kite more effectively, giving void elves an extra escape mechanic.
It’s also worth noting this is also great for kiting around pillars and other forms of los by using the map to your advantage and throwing the velf racial into a pillar or something like that, and then running for the other one. By the time you’ve connected with one pillar, your racial has connected with the other, and then you can port from one to the other, thus making melee have a harder time managing to damage you, and likely encouraging them to swap and get you breathing room.
The void elf racial like all other racials has a place and active understanding to it provided one understands both map layout and their own capabilities and mechanics.
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But they are the most popular allied race so clearly nothing is wrong with them.
It is a situationally good movement speed/escape. Its better then cannibalism for forsaken at least
The only things I found it helpful is the skip in Tol Dagor in lower level, but it would take lots of time practicing. Otherwise, it’s pretty useless.
I despise PvP, so if it’s only useful in that minigame then it’s completely useless to me.
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Have to agree. It’s one of the more epically useless racials.
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It’s mostly useful in pvp or during a movement mechanic you can reliably predict.
I’ve seen void elf arcane mages in arenas that just teleport all over the area and people can’t keep up because they have so many jukes.
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Sorry the best proc racial in the game isn’t enough for your pve business.
I thought pve was all about mobility? I don’t see how this wouldn’t be good for PvE situationally? Like say, being able to stay in a danger zone for longer to finish a few spell casts before porting away? As a priest, for example.
On my mage Blink almost always has a charge available in time for mechanics requiring movement, and my priest always has a feather available (I don’t play shadow so idk what they have for mobility).
Right. But the racial would allow you to either A: not have to take feather, freeing up one of hte other two choices. Or B: Allow you to cast more heals / damage before fleeing from the mechanic with a simple teleport, instead of running which would potentially cut your heals / dps a little.
It has a use, I’m not saying it’s optimal. Just like how Nightborne racials pretty niche. Or will of the forsaken.
The OP didn’t say “useless to me”. They quite literally said:
That statement is factually false. Just because you do not partake in a piece of content has no bearing on the usefulness of the racial to those that do. And your post here means nothing, nor contributes to the conversation on the actual usefulness of the racial from a broad spectrum, which is what the OP’s comment is involving. The broad spectrum of racials.
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Just because one does not have a personal use for the racial based on their playstyle/class/talent choices does not mean that the racial is useless.
Even in PVE scenarios I find my discipline priest making extensive use of it when I need to change my position. And while that rift starts moving, I can still be dpsing/healing up until the last second, at which point I teleport in the blink of an eye. It’s also great for getting away from mobs that have somehow locked onto me. Send the rift out, pull the mobs with you as you walk backwards from it, and then teleport. The PVP applications also speak for themselves, and they’ve saved my butt in a few battlegrounds or at the very least bought a healer some time to save my skin while I disorient the horde orc that’s pounding my face in.
Is it useful for mages? Probably not. But that does not mean the racial itself is useless.
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ITT: We don’t know how to use the niche of our racials so we call Horde bias/buffs.
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They would have been better with a racial that activated the Entropic Embrace on demand.
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I think it’s a good idea for a racial, but it’s applications are very limited. It’s really only useful for kiting mobs as a caster in pve and juking players in pvp.
better than the crappy pulse racial the nightborne got, plus void elves have no pushback casting so there is really no right to complain that their active isn’t the best thing ever