Since Blizzard won't balance PvP servers by transfers then fix Horde's OP racials

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It is a pattern seen also in the Retail game which means it’s either too expensive monetarily for Blizzard to offer Horde transfers from Horde overpop servers to servers where Horde is the minority to balance them, or Blizzard is seeing revenue from player paid transfers which they don’t want to lose.

What Blizzard should do then if they care at all about Server Faction Balance, is balance Horde’s overpowered racials.

This is a win-win solution as it will only affect FOTM rerollers, not players who went Horde b/c they love the Horde, and it should stop the wave of Alliance rerolling Horde for OP racials, instant BG queues and world dominance.

Here’s how it should be done:

1 . Race: UNDEAD
Racial: WOTF
Current Form: “Immunity to Charm, Fear and Sleep while active. May also be used while Charmed, Feared or Asleep. Lasts 5 seconds. 2 min Cooldown”.

Balanced Form: “Breaks Charm, Fear and Sleep while active. May also be used while Charmed, Feared or Asleep. Lasts 1 second- 5 Minute Cooldown. Can be resisted”.

  1. Race: ORC
    Racial: Blood Fury

Current Form: “Increases AP by X or dmg & healing by X but reduces healing effects on you by 50%”.

The intent here is for Orcs to rarely use this OP racial in PvP but Orc players should keep using their racial in PvE as before.

Balanced Form: “Increases AP by X or dmg & healing by X but reduces healing effects on you by 150% and in addition increases damage taken from all sources by 100%”.

  1. Race: ORC
    Racial: Hardiness

Current Form: “Chance to resist stun effects increased by 15%”

Balanced Form: "Chance to resist stun effects increased by 5%"

  1. Race: Troll
    Racial: Berserking

Current Form: “Increases your casting and attack speed by 10 to 30%”

Balanced Form: "Increases your casting and attack speed by 10 to 30% but reduces healing effects on you by 150%"

  1. Race: Tauren
    Racial: War Stomp

Current Form: 0.5 sec cast “Stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds”

Balanced Form: 2 sec cast “Stuns up to 2 enemies within 3 yards for 2 seconds”.

  1. Race: Blood Elf
    Racial: Arcane Torrent

Current Form: Instant - Silence all enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds

Balanced Form: 2 Second Cast - Silence up to 2 enemies within 3 yeards for 2 seconds.

I really think that changes such as these will help substantially the Faction Balance in PvP servers and will definitely stop the “bleeding” of players from Alliance side Rerolling Horde.

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What about Perception?

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Way too strong. Should be made passive and nerfed 10x. Replace the active part with a PvP trinket or something.

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Are you seriously proposing to nerf troll? The only race in-game without a pvp racial. And the most worthless race for some classes too.

Trolls need a major buff or a new racial to be on par with everyone else.

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WotLK announcement:

We’ve heard the communities concerns over faction imbalance and racial abilities and have decided to introduce a new active racial to the troll race called Every Mon for Demselves.

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Well the thing is, nobody cares for real about Perception otherwise the PvP servers won’t have been skewed 40-60% in favor of the Horde, the Alliance Faction in Herod and other servers would not disband to reroll Horde.

I am not proposing that the Horde OP PvP racial change out of spite, I am doing so because they have broken the game and we are just a few weeks away before Alliance Factions in PvP servers die off.

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Yes. Berny approves of this message.

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Woah woah I exceeded my weekly sodium intake simply from reading this post

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War stomp - stuns for 2 second (max 2 targets) in 3 yard range but 2 sec cast. Lmao nice joke next time try make it balanced not useless m8.

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Μaybe you should just L2P or alternatively stop using this racial altogether in PvP if you can’t pull it off.

Horde racials came from Vanilla at a time where the Horde were the Minority in many servers in order to to entice more players to roll Horde.

Clearly, the raison d’etre for these OP racials has ceased to exist now and they should be balanced so as not to constitute I.W.I.N. BUTTONS.

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I had other Alternative suggestion.
Instead of swinging balance back forth, Blizz could add each race second racial ability being copy of one of the opposing faction racials. However using one active racial will put it and second one on their full CD.

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A rogue that ask a Nerf for other in TBC.
A rogue.
ROGUE.
thats fun

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Shadowmeld cow KEKW

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And this would only appy in PvP ?
Because not everyone in WoW does PvP.
Some of us like our current racials, using in PvE.

Not everything in WoW centres around PvP.

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Could i ask for these changes as a warlock?

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These changes are intended to be disincentives for Horde to use their racials in PvP.

They are not intended as nerfs for Horde races in PvE and they aren’t so.

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The rest i can perfectly understand and agree with. But nerfing the bloody trolls . Who got by far the worst pvp racial . The real balanced version of our racial was at wotlk when the 10-30% attackspeed became flat 20% . Which is still meh considering how many attack speed CLASS skills exist which give much more than that %
Now you are actually suggesting reduced healing effects . 150% is mathematicaly impossible btw , the cap should be 100% which means ZERO heals . Again , when talented hunter aimed shot and warrior mortal strike reduce healing by 50%
Nerf undeads to the ground for all i care :slight_smile:
But this is pure hate :upside_down_face:

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Well, there should be a disincentive/penalty for using Berserking in PvP to save that Orc Warrior who has popped Bloodfury and Free Action potion and is mowing down the Alliance like the Reaper reaves souls.

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No, if you are: rogue, druid, Warrior, mage or warlock you cant talk about op nerf and other things like that.
In season 2 when the people Will have 400+ resilience you Will understand on what im talking now.

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Well, why cant i talk about race unbalance, you dont think that ally warlock is comperable to horde warlock do you?