Hello, I was testing the Loa racial on PTR and I heard that they were nerfed big time, so I decided to log and check what is going on.
So far I managed to test 4 of them: Bwonsamdi, Kimbul, Pa'ku and Akunda.
Pa'ku was meant to grant 4% crit for 12 seconds. I was playing on fire mage hoping it would appear but after doing over 100k dps not even once I had pop up informing that gift of Pa'ku activated itself I assumed it was meant to work like Mag'har orc and void elf racial. So did anyone else had same issue? Or it was meant to work "in background" without informing player?
update: I was testing it again, I did over 6bilion damage and Pa’ku activated itself only once, I tested this racial, on frost and arcane speccs and they procc more often, same goes for retribution paladin. So why on primary crit focused class/specc it’s not working? Is it intentional?
I was testing Gift of Akunda on training dummies and not even once it appeared on combat log, so now question to other players - did it happen during your healing encounters on PTR?
Anyway so far it didn't work at all for me.
Gift of Kimbul - this one is interesting one. I was playing on fury warrior as I thought that extra bleeds would be sweet but in reality I never got to the 3 stack, I only managed to get to 2 max. And the damage it did was quite underwhelming.
Update : I tested on ele/enh shaman, disci/shadow priest and retri paladin too : https://imgur.com/a/yzxFTds
the damage of Kimbul's gift varies from 0,2-0,4 % of total damage.
For purely damage oriented racial to do mere 0,4% of total damage really isn't looking good especially when compared to Gift of Bwonsamdi, which does around 1-1,4% of total damage AND which also offheals you AND which can crit itself.
SoI don't see how could anyone pick Gift of Kimbul when there is a choice of Pa'ku and Bwonsamdi to pick (assuming that Pa'ku one will work at some point).
So yeah I'masking PTR testers how was their experience and how they feel about the racial overall?
I understand that Racials shouldn't be OP but mere "little extra" to enhance playstyle and I believe gift of Bwonsamdi fills the criteria fine, but the rest is either underperforming or not working at all currently. So here is big request for community to check it out and give feedback while they can and while races are still work in progress.
oh and btw - Regeneratin' breaks even with absorption shield on, so even in situation where you play mage and have frost barrier on, blink away to quickly heal a mob can break it by auto attack from rifle for example and your racial is wasted.