Guild wars 2 tackled that well, no matter the race, you got traits to choose from. Gives people chance to pick different traits from others, whilst giving no race an edge.
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Yeah picking traits could be cool.
FFXIV races don’t really have any advantages over one or another. I meant there is a slight thing but it’s purely RPG flavor rather than anything that would be impactful, even for the 1%.
I honestly like the idea that racials effect your dps because its another layer but i cant deny that the community has built a culture around min maxing to a degree that ruins them because people get pressured into playing what they don’t want to.
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Nah, I really like racials. It makes the race you choose feel in some way impactful. The issue is just HOW unbalanced those racials are. Like, they really should have all either been utility/overworld use, or all been damage/dungeon use.
Having some races just be so much stronger in actual end-game content is laughable. Mech monks are going to be disgusting. Vulpera got crapped on in the racial department.
This whole expansion has been kind of funny how the racial traits of all the alliance allied races have been insane, and most of the horde traits have been bad, potentially to try to add back some balance. Why, though? Why not balance the races you have?
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i’ve told you i think horde players just like alliance stuff better than alliance do. like personally i’m way more excited about mechagnomes than vulpera.
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I mean like 10% rep, or 10% swim speed, or extra breath under water, stuff like that is a nice touch but nothing massive. Being able to break out of every cc, or being able to remove all debuffs on you, or gaining powerup for a duration is hard to balance and impactful.
it sucks but i also like the flavor of something like every man for himself because humans can be cowards hell how many dungions do you end up pulling extra mobs because the human mobs started to run away at low health. I also like the flavor of it being harder to fear an undead.
Even then tho the racials are tiny hell mathmatically the best racial with the trolls equils out to be less than the flat 1% haste that a goblin gets the only reason its better is because you get more stacked with trinkets and other cooldowns and this racial is honestly the only stand out one if they scrapped it for something else entirely people might stop caring.
At least they don’t matter as much as some time before. Troll racial in Wotlk was crazy broken for casters, especially combined with priest’s power infusion. That basically quadrupled arcane mage’s damage.
It’s a combo of story and socio-mechanical reasons. First, ever since Cataclysm Alliance territory in mainland Azeroth has been constantly chipped away. Yes I know Vanilla positioned the Alliance to have more zones and I get the need to balance that, but it still doesn’t feel good to continually tank losses. To make this point worse, Cataclysm wrecked things like the loch in Loch Modan and the SW Park, so even zones we didn’t lose we still lost in a sense. The park did finally get upgraded from smoking crater, but only after years of begging and Varian getting killed…
And then on socio-mechanical side you’ve got the faction imbalance that was brought on by racials that Blizz is only starting to try to fix now, but for that I fear it’s too late. At this point you may not be able to pay people to transfer back to Alliance, which means it may be doomed to fade into irrelevance entirely.
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Oh yeah that was some bull and honestly back then even tho it was more powerful and more imbalanced the everyone needs to be troll was less of a thing back then.
Was fun tho, really really fun.
Yes I know.
That doesnt change the fact this is a bait thread with yet another horde player going on about how alliance shouldnt complain with some horde complaining sprinkled in for good measure. Its always the same.
“Why are alliance whining? Here let me answer my own question and then explain why they shouldnt complain, then remind everyone about the adversity the horde has had to face for good measure so that everyone knows alliance definitely shouldnt complain”.
And for what purpose? Just to get everyone riled up… which it worked, surprise surprise. Could have been a “heres what I am happy about regarding the horde and heres what I am unhappy about” thread without the alliance flaming, but no.
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They could leave the mechagnome racials a little overtuned for the next raid tier because they are currently bonkers powerfull and then Method would world first race as alliance and many of the sheep will fallow then they balance them out a bit and maby some people wont bother paying to go back for a .1% dps increase over the next best racial
You say this, but there’s constant posts to just have blood Elves with blue eyes on the Alliance
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I’ll just roll my eyes and move on. She’s a terrible character and wouldn’t care if we never saw her again.
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Your saying this while playing the most heavily played Horde race that was the ONLY pretty race until NB came in right?
I find it pretty damn hypocritical, of course the bulk of people want to play a pretty/attractive race. We still get our Orcs and Trolls but BEs have obviously shown that trend to be true. Even back in Vanilla days you where hard pressed to find a female troll that didn’t have the one pretty face
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To be perfectly honest I play Alliance sometimes myself, and I like Void Elves those Emo Elves be rocking it hard like Alice Cooper!
Oh and by the way Gnome has a super great Racial since day one 1% to haste my level 15 gnome warrior beat a fully geared level 30 character in a duel.
It is a good racial but really doubt the racial is why you beat them.
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I was a twink character back then lol.
We could start by looking at the cinematics this expansion. Where are the alliance centric ones? Fully 3d rendered ones. Not a slideshow of drawings.
Its also humorous to cite Kul’tirans as alliance bias. Nobody asked for them and they are the least played race in the game I believe, new skeleton or not. Meanwhile their counterparts the Zandalari are heavily played and were requested a lot. Vrykul would have been played more, but instead they opted for overweight humans.
While some are excited for Mechgnomes I’d say the majority have little care for them. Vulpera are highly popular and will be played by a lot of people.
There is still no retribution for the burning of the tree.
The horde storyline led into the first raid of bfa, while alliance was kind of randomly there.
I mean I could keep going on, but you will do mental gymnastics to downplay any grievances the alliance might have.
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