“oh no you can choose your own racial in the pvp mini game… guess thats the roleplaying dead in da world of warcraft!”
do you hear yourself?
yeah but sure, lets keep the current race change mill going for blizzard, where everyone race changes once a year to whatever new racial is busted, all because like 17 guys would get upset over the rp implications if they had shadowmeld as a gnome rogue or escape artist as an undead warrior.
Cos back then human was broken and 90% of ladder were humans (wotlk-wod) while not every class could be nelf like now. Now most classes can abuse nelfs. Basically from everyone has to be human (since it is one of worst racials rn, does relentless even exist nowadays?) it shifted to everyone has to be nelf (even tho it kinda depends on matchup and dwarfs are strong options too for some classes). In addition to that some giga broken talents such as subterfuge did not exist.
Blizzard has some of the worst balancing i’ve ever seen and if they decided to change racials it would prolly mean people would have to race swap weekly.
Yes I hear myself, your solution is the worst in this thread by far, what’s the point of racials if everyone can pick whatever they want? Why even call them racials at that point if they have nothing to do with a race? That’s just extremely silly. Worst idea.
Racials aren’t nearly as impactful in PvE as they are in pvp so that comparison is a complete misfire.
literally no one but you cares about the lore implications of a dwarf using war stomp and having the 5% stamina racial.
very bizarre hill to die on - to keep the race change mill going for another X years because the fabric of the RPG element of the game would collapse in on itself if an Earthen dwarf learned stone form.
my solution fixes the racial disparity tomorrow and lets people play dead-on-arrival races like Nightborne who look awesome but have a negative DPS racial and zero utility or defensive ones.
Racials was the reason why Alliance PvE nearly died in WoD because horde racials was better, so it created a snowball effect where people who wanted to have an advantage started to play horde, Pro players started to play horde more and after that it was just a natural thing to play horde just to have an advantage in Raids and M+.
So no, Racials was and still is pretty impactful for PvE.
Literally you don’t know the meaning of a word “literally” as there are many people who wouldn’t want this dumb idea to become reality, including blizzard, thankfully. There is 0 chance they would ever introduce something as silly as “pick your racials”. That’s just gross. Lol
I’m sorry but I just realised you’re a dwarf shaman. I can’t keep discussing this topic with someone who would pick such a lore-breaking race-class combo. You guys were retconned into the game in Cata and I simply don’t agree with it - its ruining my immersion and frankly breaking my roleplaying.
Please open your wallet and race change to Orc Shaman so we can continue having this conversation about how much the lore matters to you.
Sorry but I don’t care about you.
The chaos meld is causing is to a similar level that orc relentless is causing, its just about in every game once you start trying to climb, especially if its a healer, rogue or druid particularly. Just cause it went under the radar doesn’t mean it was not OP
considering since BFA onwards it was a work around for people to death skip without being a mage or rogue and that people even used it during one season to ignore the seasonal affix
it would be like the equivalent of giving worgen racial the ability to ignore movement impeding effects, there would be warcrys over that.
Somehow m+ or mythic raid ladders aren’t dominated by one race the way pvp ladders are infested with nigh elf so I disagree.
Ferals got no restealth.
Druids are also very limited to a very low number of races they can play too.
Did you actually check the stats or did you write it without thinking?
People have always complained about Meld. Put the pipe down.
Shadow Meld has been the same for years now, why complain about it now? Oh, because the Orc racial got nerfed and the meta slaves Race-changed to Nelf.
So the problem isn’t Shadowmeld, it’s racials in general being too strong.
Maybe “always” if you started playing few years ago, then yes. But here adults talking, so please, shoo
Meld drinks were always broken.
Maybe act like one before calling out others.
Maybe do not answer to messages that were not supposed to be addressed to you?
Meld was not better than human or orc racial, especially not better than blood elf racial not so long ago.
Today I learned 7 years ago is ‘not so long ago’. Ok man.
Oh and Belf was never ever better than Meld overall. The pipe - drop it.
My main problem with Meld is its basically mandatory for Rogue and making so much damage require stealth for every spec is just stupid.