I wish combat related racials (anything that does or increases healing or damage) were replaced by flavor racials
I wish combat related racials (anything that does or increases healing or damage) were replaced by flavor racials
I'd be up to giving it a try. Would be interesting to see if it made any difference in population levels.
Yeah, I would love some more stuff to represent the races we are playing. Now, Heritage Armor is cool, the new "sub-race customization" we get in Shadowlands is cool, but I also would want them to expand more on the races.
But I guess, stuff like Racials might be too minor to use maybe a good deal of resources on seeing there are so many races now. But good examples of what we got already is the Arcane Torrent, The mailbox and the Arcane Pulse racials for Nightborne as examples. But maybe they could have put Arcane Torrent visuals when you do other spells too. Just something that lights up and are up for 10 seconds now and then like Void Elves Entropic Embrace. Imagination is endless!!
But mine stops right there...
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Remove power racials? Okay, but not to replace them with flavor ones. "Flavor" ones are lame, just look at SWTOR. Instead, they should all be utility that gives a race a class ability, like Shadowmeld for Feign Death, Darkflight for Sprint, or Stoneform for Ice Block.
People who say racials are fine have obviously never PvP'd.
I think people are looking at this in the wrong way. Racials are considered necessary for unique flavor and RP reasons, but added spells and abilities aren't the only way to achieve that. If they wanted race-choice to feel important, then they should make every race/spec variation feel different based on your choice. Not the first time this kind of thing has been called for.
Tauren Paladins would have Chieftan's Strike instead of Crusader Strike, and all the Hammer motifs could be changed to Totems. They start with the Sunwalker title unlocked.
Night Elf Holy Priests are Elune-themed while the Draenei Holy Priests are Naaru-themed. Blood Elf Holy Priests are Sunwell-themed, Forsaken Holy Priests practice some dark-mending. Nothing actually changes gameplay-wise. Forsaken and Night Elf Fire Mages could both be Teldrassil themed, with different takes on how that went down.
Druids already enjoy this kind of treatment. It'd be the next big step for character customization and interesting variation now that the character models are in a pretty good place.
2-3 racial abilities is thinking way too small compared to what Blizz could do if they decided they wanted to make race choice more meaningful.