Hello, so first of all I would like to mention a thing that happened to me today in duel.
I run a lvl 80 full pvp gear EARTHEN holy paladin.
I casted on a elemental shaman (no absorbtion no nothing), a full azerite surge (2.3 seconds cast time), and it did under 1% damage, after the full damage, the shaman was still 100% hp. How is this possible?
Second, We cannot drink water, no matter if its the lore cider, or any of the thematical earthen (sold by earthen for earthen) foods
e.g. [Lava Cola][Stone Soup][Chalcocite Lava Cake].
What is blizzard thinking that a new Earthen player should do? spend 2k / drink to “eat gems”? this is clearly a no no go.
In the name of all Earthens I demand that we can use all mana regen consumables, just as any other race, and that our Racial, is impactful.
thank you but this is not enough.
greatly reduce their cost =/= on par with normal food.
All their racials are underwhelming to say the least. I’ve mentioned a couple but besides that, we have :[Hyper Productive] that gives a whole +25 fitness, at max level.
and ofcourse [Wide-Eyed Wonder] that is good for nothing at max level.
the whole race is butchered when it comes to racials.
We deserve a more polished experience!
Belga’s gems (Belga is a gem store in Dornogal in the southeast part of the crafting district) heal both HP and mana, they cost as little as 25 copper each and they don’t override the well fed buff you have rom a different gem.
I don’t know about you but that food is noth only cheaper but also better than most of the food you have to craft, the only cheaper option is temporary food from a mage.
I am not convinced that selling food items is the solution to be honest. It completely eliminates the race fantasy that Earthen do not need to consume food. If you have to plonk your bottom down to regenerate mana via drinking, you might as well just buy normal food.
And on a mechanics side, you will have to introduce vendors or at the very least vendor items in every new expansion going forward, or Earthen will have to backtrack to Dornogal.
IMO the easiest solution would be to introduce some form of racial spell in the form of a channelled meditation, in which the Earthen hunkers down and absorbs minerals out of the ground to replenish health/mana similarly to consuming Mage food
As for the active racial, there is a reason why all popular races follow a very easy formula: Slight increase to a secondary stat as a passive trait (e.g. +1% Haste or Crit) and a utility spell for their active trait (e.g. Shadowmeld, Arcane Torrent, Gift of the Naaru). In cases where the active trait is a boost to a stat (like with Trolls) they will receive utility passive traits instead. This makes balancing in multiple scenarios easier, so pretty much all races with the “traditional” setups are fairly well balanced from a DPS perspective.
However, races with active DPS abilities consistently land at the very bottom of sims, even below sims that do not factor in any racial traits.
The formula of “DPS passive, utility active” often allows for creative and fun gameplay moments. The active stat increases make for very satisfying burst windows. But the active damage abilitites often hit for little more damage than your filler spells, making them a damage loss over almost any other ability, given that racial abilities do not scale with any damage increasing spells or talents, only with main stat and Vers.
There really is no right way of handling those, if you enable scaling with talents and burst cooldowns they might get too powerful (especially with classes focusing on the particular damage type like LFD Ret Paladins). Leaving scaling disabled altogether will make them as dangerous as a typical pool noodle. IMO all direct damage traits need to go entirely and be replaced with stat increases, active or passive.
Instead of the azerith surge i would have loved to get something similar to shadow melt.
Its an incredible handy ability and no other race has somethin compareable.
Let thw earther power fown and turn into a statue so mobs stop attacking you or let me burrow in the ground
Perhaps an interesting way to solve the drinking problem would be to give the earthen something like “Detect Minerals” . You click it , it lets you search around for some “edible” gems / rocks . You do a small mining / digging animation and get some gems/ rocks that just restore mana . This way you would never run out of food , even in a dungeon / raid without mage .