Why did Blizzard nerf Blef racial?

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Is it more interesting to watch five night elves in MDI instead of five blood elves?

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Because it was OP with a silence as a racial?

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oh they nerfed it?

welp.

there goes that one or two useful scenarios for that racial.

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I find it rather funny how something is considered fine for years yet suddenly it requires change.

Oh well, just add a passive that reduces transmog cost by 50% since Belfs host the trial of style.

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Do you mean the silence that got changed or did belf racials get a more recent nerf? the silence has been gone for a while now. Its better because honestly it was really op to have an aoe silence like that , it was especially frustrating in pvp if you were a caster. Lets face it, many people rolled belf for that racial. When the silence got changed i suddenly started seeing way less belfs everywhere.

i complained about it for years already and i was happy when it went away

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Its been changed for 13+ months now .

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instead of a silence, you get an aoe dispell iirc ( i don’t have a be) still useful in some m+

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How about every trash pack? XD

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Oh, I wouldn’t worry about the night elf racial, if every group is 5 night elves at MDI after MDI they’ll eventually nerf it, they seem to love nerfing stuff based on the MDI.

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That’s literally a Velf racial…

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Goes to show how much i care about them.

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Now that you say it… never saw a belf win

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Racial isn’t op. Well lets explain this again…:

  1. In order to have the NE racial work like said you need all 5 people being night elevs.
  2. Blame with how M+ is designed with the timer and having more thrash than needed to complete it
  3. BE racial was OP in every aspect of the game and you just needed 1 to make it work
  4. Going back to point 2, dungeons in Legion you went 1 way or the other. So no matter which way you went you kinda had to kill everything anyhow.

I find it funny that racial which is almost useless except in M+ due to current dungeon design and even then requiring all 5 people to be night elves needs to be fixed. But when it was known that the BE was brokenly OP since their introduction in TBC shouldn’t have been touched.

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I never said it was OP, nor did I ask for an explanation. I simply said what Blizzard will probably do because they’re idiots.

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Rezan waves hello
And there are others that i do not know about where 1 nelf can stop abilities going off.
However overall i agree with you it is not as bad as the belf racial was, belf racial however was not that op in PvE put it on the gcd and it was no longer really that good at all.

Both dwarf races have racials that are really really good for dungeons.

I will say it again in PVE arcane torrent WAS NOT a big deal to have it was nice it helped but this was far far far from this big important thing to have for everything.

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I don’t think he’s doing much waving with those little dead arms.

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Looking forward to nerfing Nelf meld as well.
It was dusgustingly OP in MDI 2019

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I prefer to watch 5 night elves

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First they nerf Nelves in the lore and Social Hubs and now you already want the useless racial to be nerfed that was only used by no lifers in MDI?

Man, I thought Horde was understanding with their OP racials.

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This racial is just to reset aggro and/or/resulting into drop combat (open world to mount), it can’t be nerfed at all. What’s the nerf? Remove it? Makes you invisible but you won’t drop aggro/combat? 2nd one you can just remove it! The racial does exactly what it does barebones aggro reset. A single dot or follower will or can ruin it.

For example Arcane torrent had obvious solutions:

  1. Make it ST
  2. Make it share CD with an interupt (like the human stun removal does it now with the trinket)
  3. Change the action, so what they did with interrupt > purge.

Shadowmeld can’t be changed unless you remove it…