Any one sitting around with their own ideas for perhaps giving Alliance racial that little bit of “oomph” to compete with Horde racial popularity?
Just one main idea I had was changing the Worgen Racials. Instead of their Dark Flight which is not a bad ability, why not give the following active:
When activated in Worgen Form, for a short duration, damaging non-spell abilities apply a bleed dealing X damage per second. When activated in Human Form, for a short duration, suppress all slowing effects and increase movement speed by X
Another idea, potentially instead of Viciousness was to play more on the hunting for prey, as in:
Gain increased haste based on your main targets missing health
The idea is just to add some competition between Horde and Alliance racial for PvE, since that is one of the major issues (alongside bad writing and Faction Philosophy) that the Alliance has to deal with. I am not sure if any of these would work or even be wanted but I thought it would be nice to see what other people have for ideas! Making something interesting and competitive.
I am not certain but I have the feeling that the developers would like to balance out racials as much as possible so that it would not interfere with the players class choice.
I have no idea if it is good or bad though. Personally I like differences in MMORPG so that you feel more unique. But at the same time, the game has grown more and more competetive and by so, again… I think that they would like to avoid creating racials that would be considerably more favoured to not “force” those who are specially competitively focused into playing a specific race =/
I just realised that I misread your post. So basically specifically buff the racials of the alliance faction?
I am not very familiar with the different racials in the game. But of course, to keep them as much balanced as possible would probably be what the developers aim for, although there are many races nowadays ^^ I hope they will work on racials a bit with the upcoming Shadowlands expansion. For the same reason as stated in my first comment, it would probably be better the more balanced the racials are so that it will eliminate the race-differences and at the same time keep them unique and race-specific.
I just can not say much more as I do not know much about the current racials. But I can come up with pretty cool ideas for new racials, but that is a story for another time!
Nah, I like Darkflight. It gives classes with very little mobility at least something to get them around. Like, on my Worgen DK I have access to Death’s Advance, and then a further sprint with Darkflight if I need it. I’d hate to lose it tbh.
Worgen racial can be renamed to “Unleash the Beast” like an enrage in which your damage and haste increase instead of this roleplay racial. Currently Worgen will serve to only a few furries and roleplayers with those racials, they spend effort on new customizations for nothing because their popularity won’t increase in their current racial power state.
Reducing Human Racial cooldown to 2.5 Min instead of 3 an easy one that would bring some more PvP players to Alliance side. and it must not share a 30 sec cooldown with similar effects.
Draenei Healing racial for 20% HP has too long cooldown 3 min for 20% hp… make it 2.
I hope you are aware that it’s also an issue on horde side right?
You’ll find inferior racials at both sides with Nightborne being the worst (for noncaster).
Overall Alliance racials are mostly better DPS-wise and atleast equal if not better regarding Utility. (not all race but in comparison of top races)
For example Human is dpswise always in the top 5 Races per Class while mostly ranked #1 or #2 and also gets an Remove Stun for PvE and PvP…
If you take a look at the top 3 Ranks it’s around 60% 2x Alliance 1x Horde around the top three picks.
If you ask for racial buffs do it for both factions.
Not exactly what I said but I did say they can’t have an x amount of extra damage or else the stronger races such as the Zandalari should get a bigger number.
Racials have nothing to do with faction balance at current, it’s simply because of Horde enjoying higher numbers to draw newcomers in. This being combined with hyperbole such as “you can only do serious pve if you’re horde” ignoring the fact this only really applies to mythic level raiding which a minority of the playerbase do as current content (by the time everyone and their mum is running it due to overgearing it’s unlocked for both sides anyway).
This is not an issue that will be fixed by racial tweaks - alliance racials in many cases are stronger for pve performance. It makes no difference whatsoever. It’s simply because Horde has more players because of past changes to those racials when the differences were larger, coupled with the continual exaggerated communications of alliance pve performance.
imagine trying to balance racials… i thought alliance had the best pvp racials while horde is pve? Again people will still join horde. making racials broken i think would bring more problems.