Look, I’m not here to say a lot. With the current state of overall racials there is not much… “fair” or “balance” to them in general. But even to that point Worgen rank pretty low on the list of useful racials. One thing that does always make me sigh though is Running Wild. It is such a cool concept, which seems to be a theme nowadays, but falls flat and rarely is even used for multiple reasons.
Hopping strait to the point, I think it should be a insta cast outside of PVP settings. Like, how druids can shift forms. It makes no sense that it takes a Worgen just as long to drop on all fours as it does to summon and mount a creature. Outside of PVP, which is why I excluded it, I do not see a outward advantage that this would really give the race, especially in a game that has and will eventually be again dominated by flight.
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Worgens Run Wild '96
But in all seriousness, running wild is the only thing that makes me interested in playing a Worgen now that your heritage is the absolute worst. It should be insta cast.
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They need to make the animation look better, it’s just awful. It should be more bounding so you don’t look like an absolute spaz while using it, that’s the only thing I would change
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Pretty much, it should feel like a racial, so it better be that way.
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Yea we don’t look cool like Genn we look like we’re having seizures. 
yeah…I brought this up a year ago and yeah…they just dont get it.
Its pointless unless its at least half (or less) the cast time as mounting a normal mount. I never use it.
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Insta mount for any class? Nah I’m good.
I’m not even sure it’s really a problem if it were instant cast or short cast in PvP. Running wild wouldn’t really change much for its class combos that are already highly mobile… at most it’d provide a mild boost for mobility-challenged classes.
If it throws a kink into rated PvP, disable it there sure, but for casual it’s fine.
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maybe make it so running wild still has a cast time, but you can’t get dazed, no matter what spec
or maybe remove darkflight, and replace it with running wild, a speed boost that hits mount speed, and the animation is the running wild animation
Man i love worgen running wild!
What? I use my Worgen sprint almost on cooldown. It’s easily the most spammable racial Alliance side.
Since the pathfinder was created, I only use Running Wild.
And if I need to do something without being able to use a flying mount, I never use horses or land mounts.
Just Running Wild.
But I recognize that worgen has racial … uninspired.
The one we use for leatherworking is ridiculous. Useless to me.
Even more in the way that leatherworking is today.
+1% critical? Lame!
How often do you use Two Forms?
I know what you’re getting at, but if you look at the amount of racials the Worgen have more than any of the other core races. Two Forms and Running Wild are not taking slots from functional racials.
That wasn’t my argument, but even compared to some of the original races (Humans and Gnomes as a quick example), Worgen racials are demonstrably lacking. I am not saying I need this fixed, I am simply saying it would be nice to have running wild not be bound to the same cast time as any other mount.
Running wild isn’t really the problem, it’s the skinning racial that needs to be replaced by something better.
But I do like the idea of it being an insta-cast. I could total get behind that. Especially because it would be awesome to couple it with an insta-transform from human form so it looks like someone just hit your berserk button and you’re going on the hunt.
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They have a 1% [stat] racial.
They have a 1% [resist x] racial.
They have a profession racial.
They have an active racial.
The only one you could argue is lackluster is Darkflight, and while a mobile class like Warrior can’t take a lot of advantage from it, DK, Priest and Warlock rely on it.