Vulpera are the worst DPS race in the game by far - They are in need of a buff

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All data is taken from Bloodmallet and you can look for yourself there

For those who don’t know Vulpera’s damage racial is called Bag of Tricks; a 1.5 min CD spell that throws a projectile at your target dealing damage. They do not have any DPS passives like most other races.

Vulpera can play 9 classes - Warrior, Hunter, Mage, Rogue, Priest, Warlock, Shaman, Monk, DK and can play 20 DPS specs.

Of these 20 Vulpera is the worst race for damage for 14 of them second to worst for 2 of them 3rd worst for 2 and 4th worst for one.

They are by a significant margin the worst race in the game for DPS, no other race apart from perhaps Lightforged comes close and even they are better. While Mechagnomes racial is not scaling to 70 right now, they are still far superior than Vulpera for damage and Vulpera are In desperate need of a small buff. How bad Vulpera are has been known for a while but nothing has been done. Either a small buff to Bag of Tricks OR a 1% stat racial would be enough to make them un-terrible.

I will also address some counterpoints I’ve seen people make when I bring up this data.

*1. DPS differences between races are so small they are insignificant

While this generally is true and what race you pick does not matter for your damage unless you are pushing the hardest possible content such as RWF, Vulpera are a significant outlier among all races for damage; to the point where for some classes Using the Vulpera Racial is a DPS loss compared to using any other ability

*2. Vulpera’s other racials make up for the low DPS

Vulpera’s other racials mostly centre around exploring and open world content, such as the Alpaca caravan. The only other combat racials they have are a 1% fire resist and a damage reduction when an enemy hits you for the first time, which while useful especially in M+, quickly loses its value in raid and doesn’t offset the awful damage. While bag of tricks can also be used as a heal its pretty insignificant, especially at higher levels restoring around 15% of your hp and requiring a global to use it. To bring a small amount of Utility and a negative damage compared to essentially every other race is not enough to offset their (Small) strengths.

TL:DR Vulperas are the the worst DPS race in the game by a significant margin, being the worst for 14/20 DPS specs they have access too and need a little buff.

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Imo remove all racials that impact combat.

It’s bad design that people chase 1% increases through Race choices instead of just playing the race they want to be in an RPG setting

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This would actually be a good solution but I don’t see Blizzard ever implementing it

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What exactly is "significant " ??

Then dont use them ? Realy, racials arent that big, if you like vulpera go for it, if u dont then dont . I play tauren, in everything i can cuz i like it , and war stomp is useles 90% of time in m+ because it just puts DR on mobs, so other stuns are useles . Yes it has some uses but compared to troll/orc or even dwarf, thats nothing . Not even mentioning raid where it loses even more value .

Honestly i would rather have some qol stuff instead of my 2% crit dmg …

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According to Bloodmallet, some of these DPS differences are more than just a 1% margin.

Elemental Shaman saw a 3k difference between first place and last place.

I definitely think its a bit of an ouch moment!

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but really someone cares about 1%?

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^^ This

And that difference only counts if you are 95+ percentile player.

To most of us it’s utterly insignificant.

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For some classes (Like ele sham) Vulpera are 1200 DPS behind the next highest race, and 3000 behind the best overall. This is significant, and what else is significant is how they are the worst race for 14/20 DPS specs which they can potentially play. This isn’t a case of them being a bit bad they are on average statistically the worst race for damage compared to any other

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Meanwhile me,

playing only male Pandas before the Dracthyr, no matter the racial

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Vulperas are the worst? Good.

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They are the worst DPS race to play on 14/20 Damage specs they have access to. For some its so bad you are not meant to use their racial at all. I get the whole 95+ Percentile player thing but you can’t possibly think It is okay for them to be THAT bad compared to all other races

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Well, yeah, should have said its a 3k potential of damage. Unless you are reaching your own ceiling consistently, then it shouldn’t matter.

If you have enough DPS to kill a boss or clear a dungeon in a timely manner, then everything beyond that is just gravy. It doesn’t matter unless you are making it a race.

That said, in SL I went from MG Orc Ele to Tauren Ele for a 300 DPS increase. I did feel it. The increase was there. That is a bit of a worry.

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Race changes bring the $$$.

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Its 90k vs 93k worst to best.
Its 90k vs 91k worst to secind worst.

Those are numbers when u play totaly perfect, so it doesnt apply to 90% of playerbase at least.

On such numbers 3k is nothing realy …

But i get the point of OP it bein worst

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They are not the worst. Mechagnomes are as their dps racial is bugged and stuck with level 60 numbers :frowning:

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Look at bloodmallet. Mechagnomes (despite being bugged) sim higher than Vulpera still. Also its more fair to say not that they are bugged but that blizzard forgot to scale the Mechagnome racial to 70 - and Vulpera are STILL worse

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Just pick the Race you want to play. Don’t pick it for a 0.1% DPS increase.

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in BFA vulpera radical used to 1 shoot peoples in Bgs hititng 5000+ cirt at level 20 now it it heals berly 10 000 in level 70 but if u have 25 peoples stand top of ea other it heals 250.000

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Tbh, I don’t think any vulpera players chose their race for the combat ability…

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imagon playing a vulpera warrior get 700+ kills in a single BG :rofl: