Goggles Necessary but Racial Unnecessary?

#0 - May 15, 2009, 7:32 p.m.

As a rogue I understand the nerf to +stealth/+detect items because it does infact cause players to use lower level gear, but by doing this you put an even greater emphasis on Night Elf and Human racials.

Even as it was, I ran with Weakness Spectralizers, Cloak Enchant, and Shadowsong Panther trinket (lvl 70, which is not on your list of nerfed items) to compete against Human and Night Elf racials.

How can one be deemed "necessary" by Bornakk:

Q u o t e:
We recently made some changes to items that grant stealth detection. We felt these items provided a necessary advantage in competitive PVP and forced players to use lower level equipment even when more powerful items were available to them.

And these other racials (not available to everyone via professions unlike goggles etc) considered non game breaking (unnecessary)?

I feel there's a disconnect between how the two are being looked at and would appreciate them being treated equally.

Is the misunderstanding in not knowing how important the first opener really is?

I no longer have a way to compensate for my inferior racial.

I have attempted to keep this free of any jabs and bias and kept an open mind in hopes that it's a suitable thread for a blue to land a comment possibly addressing these concerns.

Ghostcrawler

#62 - May 15, 2009, 8:54 p.m.

The human racial is still a potential source of concern. We thought the engineering problem was worse because players felt compelled to drop their current profession and grind out engineering just for PvP. While that does happen in extreme cases to races too, you give up so much progress on your current character to reroll that the racial has to be quite overpowered to make that trade worth it. It's a bigger concern on something like the tournament realms where players can change their race easily.

Like I said though, we did a lot of work on racials for 3.0, but that doesn't mean they are completely finished and polished as a feature.