[Updated] More Racial Ability Tuning on WoW: Forever

Posted 8 hr 19 min ago by Squishei

We’ve updated the previous post in this thread with some additions that were intended to be listed.

Additional updates to Racial Abilities and Talents include:

Orc

Blood Fury’s cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).

Troll

Berserking duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Undead

Touch of the Grave internal cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (was 25 seconds).

We’d also like to clarify that for Skyborne:

Charged persists through death, and is removed upon entering a raid.
Attuned persists through death, and is removed upon entering a raid.

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Comments

Comment by Ankhseram

Feels like they dont know what they are doing.

Comment by Hambamwam

Blizzard flip flopping on racials every few hours because of community feedback, but holding strong on the garbage dungeon exp changes.

Clown company

Comment by TheganTheMean

Jesus...

Well, at least a move in the right direction with the Orc and Undead.

Comment by Drexxis

This is why I pick my characters based on aesthetics. No doubt, more racial ability changes will come even after launch.
Might as well pick what looks coolest and has animation I like.

Comment by OKbs

Finally adjustments in the right direction. Give Tauren the 1% hit back

Comment by nitowa

I'm just glad they never announced changes to race base stats because I can't imagine how much people would lose their heads over some race having 4 more agility.

Comment by Xialdin

So just F* Taurens then...

yes were fast wooo! but i would sacrifice that to have some kind of PVE racial like EVERYONE ELSE! i want to play balance druid but I want to play Tauren and this is a joke...

you took our hit and gave us crit dmg then you took the crit and gave our hit to the dwarves and left us with nothing...

just give us 1% hit back so there is something for us please blizzard

plainsrunning with no mount speed will be useless at 40

cultivation requires you to stand still contradicting the whole point of plainsrunning

5% health is not helpful in most PVE situations is useless for balance druids

war stomp is great but late game raiding its useless

please don't force a class especially one you need to pay for to have a late game advantage in raiding

Comment by tcjwindx

8 days lads

Comment by Shrenko

Meh, the only people who care about these racials are people who just want to top meters, nothing else. Most people just want to pick the race they like the most.

Comment by EggSaint

Blizzard flip flopping on racials every few hours because of community feedback, but holding strong on the garbage dungeon exp changes.

Clown company

Things should NOT be swinging this wildly 1 week from launch. It needed more time in beta.

Comment by Angrymama

I really don't understand the obsession with racials. I think WoW has cultivated too strong of a min/max culture that people are tripping over 1% of XYZ stat.

I've gone over the new racials, and I like them. Seems like really good racials.
The only thing I'd do is add more flavorful racials. There have been a lot of discussions about non-combat racials on reddit too.

To each their own, but some losing their minds over racials is just cringe.

Comment by Amiinmoro

Give Taurens 1% hit and we're good to go.

Comment by Serpentsaurus

Orc and Troll buffs just in time for release!

Comment by Wooshwoosh

And... Blizzard still out here guessing and hoping people will give them enough feedback to fix everything before release. They clearly dont know what they are doing. Please hire someone who can make a spreadsheet and knows the game enough to COMPARE racials. Why on earth would people play tauren? also undead racial is just not that good outside of PVP. Im glad they did something about Orcs vs the OP human racial.

My "opinion" : Make both alliance and horde skyborne racial the same, remove racials that are deemed useless. look at everything together with every class/spec that can be played and give each race a racial that ACTUALLY benefits every spec within that race. for example, dont give a race pet damage if there are many specs/classes that wont benefit from it. Blizzard needs to look at things from afar and stop guessing as they clearly have. It's really sad. Give each spec a reason to pick horde or alliance as oppose to being a overall guaranteed better faction to pick.

Comment by Djood

Why do Gnomes still have an 8sec duration on Eureka whereas all other racials are 15sec long just so we clear ?

Comment by Overpowered

They don't have a clue what to do with racials.

Comment by Mordredr

At least give the HIT back to the Tauren

Comment by Vicarun

Just revert the insane changes from yesterday. The racial were mostly fine and you made them way worse for no reason 9 days from launch.

Honestly what gets me here more than anything is the lack of confidence I now have in the devs. If they're going to treat the game with this sort of recklessness where they just throw in random BS without testing, I can't see this lasting long.

Comment by Next

KEKW

Comment by dralonis

Dang, so sky elves racial is even worse lmao. This could be a bit overkill for Blood fury. At 3 min, I believe was just as strong as human racial on shorter fights at about 2 min. They are already the best in so many ways for horde. Sorta fine with undead changes, but I think it should have been 20 seconds. Also, I think people sleep on how good undead racials are as a whole for all forms of content and general usefulness. Especially for certain race+class combos. So many horde people thinking alliance is flat out better when I think horde racials are frequently more useful in most forms of content in general with most race+class combos while also factoring in classes counters when looking at PVP, not just PVE. Also not as niche in use cases, yet horde still complain. Seems like they just want flat out better racials than alliance and not actually to be even since they also balance by race popularity. only alliance race that maybe needs a nerf is gnome.

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