Patch 8.1.5 PTR - Zandalari Troll Shrines, Darkmoon Faire Roller Coaster, DLC #668

So if I play healer/dps I have to either commit to a healer Loa (Akunda?) or DPS one, and can't change during raid.. That's.. not great.

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I'd prefer if the racials weren't combat oriented, but more about utility.
Let's say Bwonsamdi gives you speed buff when you're dead, for faster corpse runs
Paku lets you glide like DH
Krag'wa lets you double jump
Gonk lets you.. I dunno have everyone make fun that your loa is called Gonk?
Kimbul - gives you out-of-combat run speed
Akunda - makes you forget all your abilities till you change Loa :P

No reason for the 5 day cooldown the buffs are not good enough. Plus if you want to swap specs the buff could become worthless for most the week.

So Embrace is just another mechanic telling people who play multiple specs to fuck off. Blizzard is so god damn dumb.

Originally Posted by Eleccybubb

Remember when races came with the expansion purchase and were there to create from day 1 and not timegated?

What's next "Allied Classes"?

Remember when you only used to get one or two new races every other expansion?

Originally Posted by Volitar

Yikes. 5 day cooldown and you have to go to Zandalar to change it.

That's infinitely better than every other racial for every race that can't be swapped at all (sans paid race change).

Originally Posted by Gensui

Remember when you only used to get one or two new races every other expansion?

And what was stopping them from putting these ones on the character creation screen for launch to play immediately like those other races?

Oh right nothing...... It's literally taking a feature you used to get at launch and timegating it hard. Nothing more or less. The Zandalari and KT right now are literally timegated because their unlock requirements are already in the damn game. I'd expect this kind of trash from a F2P piece of garbage. Not a sub based game.

And don't even say "lore". Because the lore behind unlocking them and quite frankly the unlock quests are glorified scenarios and mediocre at best.

Originally Posted by DemoBytom

So if I play healer/dps I have to either commit to a healer Loa (Akunda?) or DPS one, and can't change during raid.. That's.. not great.

So, pretty much like every other race that have damage-only buff. Except you still can change it later. Also pick 5% crit and be happy.

Originally Posted by JoshuaNLG

Next expansion..? Gonna be nice to have a racial that requires you to go to the previous expansion to get any use out of it.

I'm sure they'll change it by then. Mabye just by having a Loa stone in your inventory, or a toy, that can change it, with a 5 day cooldown, or any other of a million options.

I hope these are spec specific as in can pic 1 per spec. I dps raids and tank outside on same toon would suck to be locked into the dps one 100% of the time.

Originally Posted by totalrelax

Do you visit Zandalar less than every 5th day?

What about next expansion and every expansion after that? Still kind of annoying.

ok so what sthe point of having the merry go round give you wheee! and the roller coaster too am i the only one who feels something else coulda been done with the coaster maybe a transportation to locations on the island maybe or even something else..

Originally Posted by rowaasr13

That's infinitely better than every other racial for every race that can't be swapped at all (sans paid race change).

Pretty much every other throughput racial works cross role. These ones do not.

Your healing abilities have a chance to heal their target for 525.
Your damaging abilities have a chance to cause the target to bleed for 260 over 6s. This effect stacks up to 3 times.
Taking damage has a chance to grant you 393 additional Health and 66 Armor.


It's annoying, restrictive, and badly designed.

Originally Posted by Ealyssa

I'm preeeeeeeetty sure its on purpose. To not make the racial blatantly OP vs any other race, who just can't adjust to what they are doing.

Your "E" key got stuck.

who fucking need that shit. Blizzard - pls suck cocks more

Does this means 8.1.5 launch before next darkmoon faire????

Originally Posted by Th3Scourge

Hope you weren't planning on playing more than one spec on your rerolled Zandalari Paladin RIP

I find it funny that people wan't to complain about this. What if you play a healer on an undead char? Your racial is near useless, and you don't HAVE the option to change it.

The zandalari racial is great because you actually get 6 racials that you can choose from depending on what spec you primarily play. That's so much more custimizable than any other race.

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Originally Posted by Hugh Wattmate

I hope these are spec specific as in can pic 1 per spec. I dps raids and tank outside on same toon would suck to be locked into the dps one 100% of the time.

No need - Zandalari already get to choose a racial that works best with their primary specialization (AND it can be changed) - that's a lot more than any other race can say.

Originally Posted by Esper

It's a little vexing that new races have completely better (and more) racials than the vanilla races. I guess they have to make them that way so people will cough up the money to race change though.

Yep. At least you see what is going on. They made insane amount of money because of race change. I bet we will get reskined races in every exp. from now on...

Originally Posted by Esper

It's a little vexing that new races have completely better (and more) racials than the vanilla races. I guess they have to make them that way so people will cough up the money to race change though.

Mag'har orc says "Zug zug!". And Nightborne if you play anything but a caster really.

Originally Posted by Daevied

Does this means 8.1.5 launch before next darkmoon faire????

I doubt it. I don't think the build is even a release candidate yet? I'd guess we'll get it mid to late March.

Blizzard could add a racial that kills an enemy player/boss instantly, and people on mmo-champ would cry about it why it doesn't kill 2 instead.