Blood Sport: Should racials be removed?
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C. Christian Moore wrote on 9th March 9pm
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Last Week: Last week, we discussed the racials of blood elves, undead, and trolls, oh my! The last two Blood Sport articles look at racial abilities from a perspective of effectiveness in the arena.
This Week: We'll be discussing racials, for the third (and last) week straight. A lot of arena players would rather play without racials entirely. On ArenaJunkies, there are lots of people who subscribe to a nerf movement every few weeks and add a little signature or avatar in to say "nerf Will of the Forsaken" or "nerf Every Man For Himself." What if racials got removed? Would WoW be better or worse because of it?
I have an opinion on it that I'm going to share with you -- hopefully you'll agree. So let's weigh some arguments for removing racials...
Cons (removing racials would be bad):
Identity
The forsaken just wouldn't be the same without those three translucent exclamation points. Before I played WoW, I saw a video of an orc using Blood Fury, and I was amazed. The animation looks so cool, and you can get it at level one! Every time I see a tauren shaman run to me, I instinctively jump behind a pillar. It'd be hard for me to get it out of my system that he can't War Stomp anymore.
Internalization
Some of my closest WoW buddies still call me by my original character's name. I haven't played that character in years. I suppose racials provide a kind of link between person and avatar, especially for people who have had their characters for an extended period of time. Not being able to use those abilities that might have persuaded you to choose that race in the first place is just kind of ...lame.
Uniqueness
Removing racials would destroy any semblance of cool in-combat ability that is unique to your race. Okay, this might seem obvious. Without racials, the only thing separating a gnome from a draenai in combat is size, and size doesn't matter in arena.
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Listening Music: Fix You, the author's favorite Coldplay song. The best part of this performance, the "crowd run," happens 3 minutes into it. Watch it, if just for that.
Last Week: Last week, we discussed the racials of blood elves, undead, and trolls, oh my! The last two Blood Sport articles look at racial abilities from a perspective of effectiveness in the arena.
This Week: We'll be discussing racials, for the third (and last) week straight. A lot of arena players would rather play without racials entirely. On ArenaJunkies, there are lots of people who subscribe to a nerf movement every few weeks and add a little signature or avatar in to say "nerf Will of the Forsaken" or "nerf Every Man For Himself." What if racials got removed? Would WoW be better or worse because of it?
I have an opinion on it that I'm going to share with you -- hopefully you'll agree. So let's weigh some arguments for removing racials...
Cons (removing racials would be bad):
Identity
The forsaken just wouldn't be the same without those three translucent exclamation points. Before I played WoW, I saw a video of an orc using Blood Fury, and I was amazed. The animation looks so cool, and you can get it at level one! Every time I see a tauren shaman run to me, I instinctively jump behind a pillar. It'd be hard for me to get it out of my system that he can't War Stomp anymore.
Internalization
Some of my closest WoW buddies still call me by my original character's name. I haven't played that character in years. I suppose racials provide a kind of link between person and avatar, especially for people who have had their characters for an extended period of time. Not being able to use those abilities that might have persuaded you to choose that race in the first place is just kind of ...lame.
Uniqueness
Removing racials would destroy any semblance of cool in-combat ability that is unique to your race. Okay, this might seem obvious. Without racials, the only thing separating a gnome from a draenai in combat is size, and size doesn't matter in arena.
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