Remove racial in arena for season 3+

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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For the moment, you are forced to use the superior race if you want to play competitive in PvE and PvP, and a 3rd party program that is not authorized by Blizzard to change your race looking (Tauren to Night elf for example) client-side only - so it does not change how people see you. I don’t use this program but lot of people use it, even top tier Twitchtv streamer.

Worse, in PvP the best race depends on your composition.

Would be very nice addition to the game and make it more enjoyable especially if we can faction/race transfert later in WOTLK so we can have an enjoyable race to play :slight_smile: .

Signed a Tauren Druid tired of his fat as*

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thats only on very high rating though… Nobody cares about it before that really.
And nobody really cares about racials in pve either, unless you are doing worlds first/races i reckon. And something tells me you arent in any of those categories:)

You arent forced to use this, as it does absolutely NOTHING to gameplay?

Im confused about the thread tbh. You play a druid (tauren), you cant chose any other race as druid on horde side. Allthough your racial is pointless in pve, its very strong in arena?

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Yes it very strong in PvP. I have never played Night Elf Druid so I don’t know how they play without, but for me Warstomp saved my as* just to many times.

I would not mind a stealth ability like Night Elf, but honestly when you drink in arena you are already behind a pillar in safe spot … you don’t need that. Better to have an escape, especially with all theses Gnome Warrior that can remove your Nature Grasp :slight_smile: . I have the better race in my opinion. But the skin is horrible …

What I dislike with Tauren is their skin. I clicked on Male, it was a big misstake. If you want to make a Tauren, play female you’ll look better :slight_smile: .

What is dislike in arena is the fact that for some class (outside of Druid), like Rogue, Warrior, Mage, Priest, the racial change how you play the game. Double Rogue perception, Double Undead Rogue Priest, Double Dwarf Hunter Priest, … And I think it’s going to be worse in WOTLK with the new human racial, even if you don’t want to play that faction/race.

Yes, you are not forced to use that program, but it’s the only solution if you want to change your ugly Tauren male to a sweety Night Elf, and conserve your BiS racial. I would like racial removed in game, so player can choose the race for skin and not for the meta, and it would make the arena more healthier. In this case, I would easily reroll Night Elf or wait for WOTLK when race/faction change should be allowed like in the past.

I know, nobody will agree with me, and nothing will change. It was more an humor post x) . If it happen, it would be a nice addition to the game. Otherwise, no problem I will live with that.

And I know, WOTLK is not announced, but we all know it is very likely to happen :wink: .

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Why even play classic if you want to homogenize racials?

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Yeah, just go play retail. The racials are balanced there. Oh wait

Racials has always been a plague to competetive play. TBC is already very rock paper scissor. Racials makes it even more so.

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My question again, why even play classic if you want to homogenize the gameplay even more to retail level?

When is it ever enough with you people?

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you can already do this now. your problem if you feel forced

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Cause choosing your race shouldn’t impact whenever it’s an easy win or a equal game. Don’t have to make the game more rock paper scissor then it has to be.

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Ignored content

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If you thought that tbc was balanced or will be balanced with removal of racials… you would be wrong.

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It’s a good step in the right direction. Only reason to have racials in the first place is to squeeze money out of race changes, which do not exist in TBC. They should either add this microtransaction or remove racials.

btw why is there a fake kaamos on gehennas?

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Easy?!?
Yes, there are racials that are quite useful, but even WOTF doesn’t turn a fight from loss to an easy win.
Stop overestimating the impact of the racials. There IS an impact, but an easy win is an easy win because your opponent generally sucks, not because you have a certain racial.

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Try playing a rogue and face an orc warrior that resist kidney 4 times in a row. At that point the game is over already in most cases.

It is what it is :upside_down_face:

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Try playing a shaman and fight a nightelf that resists 12 of your spells.

You know how often that happens!?

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na racials have a huge impatct in tbc and can make some matchup easy wins.

but the racial discussion is funny anyway especially because they are always started by either godclass druid or rogue :joy:

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Define “easy”. Easy for me is that I don’t even have to try. Like killing lowbies that die no matter which of my attacks I actually use.

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easy as in huge advantage that can change your comps winchance vs another comp big time even make unfavored matchups favored

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Well… the racial would change, for example Warrior vs. Frostmage from what feels like 10% for the warrior to 90% winchance, then I’d say you are right. But I don’t think anything is doing that.

A an undead rogue vs. a priest… in that case I think it can be OP and pretty much decide the battle. Maybe a gnome warrior vs. a hunter too. But other than that, I can’t think of any matchup where it could be consistently be the difference between a victory or loss.

Most racials are just percentage chances or percentage damage increases or something like that. That only changes a fraction of the outcomes of battles/duels.

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No, only weak players complain abut racials in arena.

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Incorrect.