Battle for Azeroth Allied Races - Highmountain Tauren Preview

Where are the body/face tattoos? am i just missing them here?

Originally Posted by Daedius

Highest Tier guilds, those after world first where the most minute of detail matters, probably... for every other regular person, don't be daft.

Probably why they specified "world first guilds will be 100% allied races".

lol @ HM tauren racial. No way that goes live.

Rugged Tenacity - Reduces damage taken by 1.8% of stamina.

This seems incredibly broken against dot classes/encounters.

If im not mistaken, if the dots of a warlock do 4% each tick of your total health this will eat 1.8% away so they only do 2.2% (40% reduction) damage.

Or do i miss something here?

Edit: ah stamina not max hp, now i get it, however it will still be much better against dots/low damage abilitys..

Originally Posted by Caprias

Rugged Tenacity - Reduces damage taken by 1.8% of stamina.

This seems incredibly broken against dot classes/encounters.

If im not mistaken, if the dots of a warlock do 4% each tick of your total health this will eat 1.8% away so they only do 2.2% (40% reduction) damage.

Or do i miss something here?

you are mistaken, it just means each tick will have its damaged reduced by whatever 1.8% of the targets stamina is, example if a target has 5000 stamina the damage reduction would be 90 damage.

No rogues

dunno, it doesn' appear too op to me. I mean, the best geared players have 100k stam atm, so a HM tauren would get hit 2k less on every attack...
I mean sure, it adds up over the course of a fight, or raid, or tier, but realistically it won't make or break an encounter. The 1% versa does more tbh.

Originally Posted by Flyinghawk

dunno, it doesn' appear too op to me. I mean, the best geared players have 100k stam atm, so a HM tauren would get hit 2k less on every attack...
I mean sure, it adds up over the course of a fight, or raid, or tier, but realistically it won't make or break an encounter. The 1% versa does more tbh.

Yeah 2k damage is hardly the difference between surviving a killing blow and not surviving except for extreme and rare cases.

Why are they trying to fit monk class to every allied race?

Originally Posted by Monkeymoo

Where’s the guy that normally voices the race intros. It almost seems odd hearing a different voice lol

He passed away a few years ago

Originally Posted by ashpwnz555

Why are they trying to fit monk class to every allied race?

Cuz monks are a neutral class that has no major affiliation to any sort of magic or faction etc. Everyone can be trained in the way of the monk my dude. We are zen as fuck.

Originally Posted by Donald Hellscream

Yeah 2k damage is hardly the difference between surviving a killing blow and not surviving except for extreme and rare cases.

Yeah but it is way stronger against dots and fast hitting classes or encounters.

an arms warrior laughs about the 2k reduction while he crits you for 2+ million.

an affliction warlock or spriest suffer way more.

thats what i dislike here :/

Originally Posted by Monkeymoo

If I was in a mythic guild that wanted to bench me because of my race choice I would happily leave lol.

seriously there might be max 2-3 asian guilds that would ask for such thing. I raided mythic since it came out with multiple guilds and we've never been told to play meta or stay on bench. (btw the guilds i was in were not the best but not bad either). These people are just inventing reasons to qq.

Originally Posted by ashpwnz555

Why are they trying to fit monk class to every allied race?

I wish. Lightforged Monk was what I wanted to be.

Originally Posted by ashpwnz555

Why are they trying to fit monk class to every allied race?

Monks are the least played class BY FAR it's not even close. They trying to get people to play them.

Originally Posted by Deuse

Monks are the least played class BY FAR it's not even close. They trying to get people to play them.

Probably because they have 850 abilities, it's super overwhelming. I tried out a monk and just way too much to deal with.

I hope they keep the journal entry for the Highmountain racial mount. xD

Originally Posted by Jin

Do you need a horde 110 with the two reqs to make one or is having an alliance char with the req enough to make a horde highmountain char.

Afaik, you just need a toon with the reps. You just need a max level horde to do the quests at the embassy.

Originally Posted by Caprias

Yeah but it is way stronger against dots and fast hitting classes or encounters.

an arms warrior laughs about the 2k reduction while he crits you for 2+ million.

an affliction warlock or spriest suffer way more.

thats what i dislike here :/

With the coming stat squish, how much stamina are we going to have? A couple thousand? 1.8% of that is barely noticable.

Originally Posted by Klance

Why does it seem so obvious that Ion might announce Pre-orders and direct access to Allied Races with these MMO-Allied Races-posts tomorrow?

Because they probably are going to. The timing would be perfect on a number of levels.

Originally Posted by Reek

Probably because they have 850 abilities, it's super overwhelming. I tried out a monk and just way too much to deal with.

I agree on the tanking and healing specs; I'm totally lost on those. WindWalker is fun, though. It used to be easier until their Mastery became "don't press the same button twice in a row" and that makes WW overly complex to process; if that was gone, WW would be better. And I do wish Fistweaving didn't go away from healing spec.