Since their Inception Vulpera have been the worst race for almost every DPS spec, taking a look at bloodmallet.
I’d love to play a Vulpera warrior but the racial is so poor its a bad idea for mythic progression. So here is my plea, Blizzard please give Vulperas damage racial a small buff so it isn’t the worst pick for every class.
I have absolutely 0 sympathy for min/maxers who cry over things like a racial meaning they do 0.5% less DPS. I hate min/maxers and everything they have done to this game.
I would rather play a race that I like and not care about 200 dps. Also the best racials in the game that are OP are actually not damage increases but stuff like Shadowmeld.
Back when they were introduced their racial was actually pretty decent, but not from a damage standpoint. If the entire raid stacked together the healing portion of the racial was broken, healing for roughly as much as Revival did on a lower CD.
As for the racial itself it is mediocre for DPS specs, but it is actually pretty good for tanks. Some races have it worse, like Nightborne who’s racial is outright useless for physical-heavy specs.
There are way more ways to increase your damage, and unless you aspire for world first your race should matter the least. By the time even top 200 get to fill the Halls of Fame you get so much more gear that your racials will not matter much in the equasion.
YES! What do I care about some long-cooldown minimal extra ability? I throw it into my MEGABAM macro and forget about it. Vulpera have such a lovely and useful non-combat racial that I couldn’t care less, and their combat racial is kinda weird anyway, because I never understood how that switching is supposed to work and how to get more options. All quite obscure.
This always reminds me of an amateur car racing anecdote where someone was doing excellent lap times and attracting the envy of others who devotedly kept tweaking their car’s setup to try and find the best one. They asked him what setup he runs. - He said he’s using mostly stock and hasn’t touched it in ages. - His ‘secret success recipe’? He put a lot of time into learning how to best work with that ONE setup.
I also have personal experience from archery underlining this point. The kind of shots I did as a total newbie with a cringy-bad posture shouldn’t have been possible. But feeling matters, too, not just the nerdy stuff.