Another "what race to pick" thread.

[scorpderp]

First of all, Yes this is one of those threads. Sorry but I need some inspiration!

I am choosing between UD male rogue or Orc female.
What will I do? Mostly PvE.
I care a lot about estetics.
Love the UD animations and mounts.
In one aspect: picking Orc female will differentiate oneself amongst all the rogues, instead of being one of the million UD male rogues.

Have few specific question:
- When the PvE server is released tomorrow (actually today..) what version of Blood Fury will be present? The one with decreased AP after use or decreased healing gain after use?

- How much does the Orc racial actually impact PvE DPS? I know that it won't impact the raid as a whole, but tbh I am a DPS meter whore so... Also aware of that it doesn't scale in contrast to the Troll one.


Put yourself in my shoes, what would you choose?

Thanks in advance for some clarity!

[Soyoen]

First of all, Yes this is one of those threads. Sorry but I need some inspiration!

I am choosing between UD male rogue or Orc female.
What will I do? Mostly PvE.
I care a lot about estetics.
Love the UD animations and mounts.
In one aspect: picking Orc female will differentiate oneself amongst all the rogues, instead of being one of the million UD male rogues.

Have few specific question:
- When the PvE server is released tomorrow (actually today..) what version of Blood Fury will be present? The one with decreased AP after use or decreased healing gain after use?

- How much does the Orc racial actually impact PvE DPS? I know that it won't impact the raid as a whole, but tbh I am a DPS meter whore so... Also aware of that it doesn't scale in contrast to the Troll one.


Put yourself in my shoes, what would you choose?

Thanks in advance for some clarity!

UD Female have in my opinion the best combat animations ingame by far. The version will be the one with reduced healing, and the impact of the racial ability in terms of raw dps on a static target is very good on shorter to mid range boss fights. That said WOTF is also a very good ability early on in vanilla, choose what you feel comfortable with - if you perform well it shouldn't matter as you plan on rolling Horde

[Viorus]

If you pay attention each race is intended for a specific class or classes.

Alliance
Dwarf - Warrior (highest strength) & possibly hunter (gun bonus)
Human - Priest / Paladin (Spirit / Mace and Sword bonus) and possibly warrior (sword/mace bonus)
Gnome - Caster - 5% (intelligence and escape)
Night Elf - Hunter / Rogue (highest agility and evasion)and druid

Horde
Orc - Shaman and possibly Warrior (axe)
Tauren - Warrior (highest strength and HP) and druid
Troll - Rogue / Hunter (highest agility, berserk, and bow bonus)
Undead - Caster (Highest intel)

[scorpderp]

@Soyoen
Thank you for an informative answer! While I do agree on the female attack animations, the estetics just doesn't cut it for UD females

@Viorus
Not really sure what your point is.

[Robotron]

Go orc.