This is following the recently announced racial buffs for underrepresented races
Disclaimer: For the most part racial balance will not effect the ordinary player and you can pick whatever you want as most races are close for damage, however when you start to push high keys and mythic raid HoF rankings it does begin to matter more and some races are clear outliers for being more useful than others, thats the basis of this discussion
The Problem:
Vulpera does not have a passive stat or active stat ability to do damage. It relies on Bag of Tricks, a push to do damage button. This means its damage racial component is pure single target, the problem with this is that for many classes and specs it is simply not worth pushing in any situation where you could push something else.
While the buffs to the under represented races are nice if you look at bloodmallet and pick almost any class and spec Vulpera will be either bottom or in the bottom three.
Even after the 40% buff it’s racial will not be good enough to make it more competitive. Better yes but but still not anywhere near good enough as for most classes this will just result in bag of tricks being worth pushing during downtime as opposed to not pushing the ability at all for DPS.
Vulpera’s utility is fine, nose for trouble is a decent racial but is not enough to warrant playing one on its own.
The Solution:
As blizzard is buffing the under-represented races this is the perfect time to give Vulpera just a little more to help it out. As the racial is pure single target damage with no AoE component why shouldnt Vulpera be a bit better at single target than say, void elf that will now proc a flat 5% damage increase to all damage. This is why I think vulpera would benefit from either adding a flat 1% stat increase (e.g. haste) OR giving back of tricks an additional DoT/HoT component to make it more competitive.
These would still make the race mid-pack in terms of damage output but that is absolutely fine. The goal of these changes is to improve race representaiton by buffing the underpowered racials and increasing racial throughput. Vulpera just needs a little more than is planned in this department and that will bring it more in line with other races.