Goblin Racials

[Adam-Savage]

I don't know if t here is another thread for this as there alot to sort through. I didn't get anything on a search.

Anyway this is what I found:


Best Deals Anywhere: Always receive the best possible gold discount, regardless of faction reputation.

Better Living Through Chemistry Alchemy skill increased by 15.

Pack Hobgoblin (Instant)(30 min) Calls in your personal servant, allowing you bank access for 1 min.

Rocket Barrage (30 yd range)(Instant)(2 min) Launches your belt rockets at an enemy, dealing 30 fire damage.

Rocket Jump (Instant)(2 min) Activates your rocket belt to jump forward.

Time is Money Cash in on a 1% increase to attack and casting speed.

EDIT: Here is Video of Air Combat in the Goblin starting zone I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHooxynNfOU

[Adam-Savage]

I found some Worgen ones as well.


Two Forms: Turn into your currently inactive form.

Darkflight: Activates your true form increasing movement speed by 70% for 10 sec.

Viciousness: Increases all damage done by 1%.

Flayer: Skinning skill increased by 15 and allows you to skin faster. (No need for a Skinning Knife)

[Anansi]

I really do hope the racials of the existing races are improved to be more in line with the Goblin and Worgen. Those are head and shoulders above what we have now, especially the Goblin.

[Tahlian]

They are. Everyone's racials are getting spiffed up for Cataclysm. I just hope the belves keep something a little bit like what we have now...that little bit of mana back has been helpful to me, and a similar Focus recoup? Yes please.

[Anansi]

I know Blizzard have said they're improving racials but Blizzard also say an awful lot of things that never get implemented or if they do it's 6 months to a year later than initially planned (if not more).

It's concerning that we haven't seen any info since their original statement on this. Given all the alpha leaks out there covering an amazing amount of content, the absence of improved racials implies that they have not been implemented yet.

I just don't have a lot of faith in Blizzard coming through on this.

[Tahlian]

They'll wind up with mass population imbalance if they don't fix them. We really didn't get a great deal of mechanics information out of the alpha "leak." What we got was a lot of information about how the world would look and the alpha pass on one or two talent trees. it would be vastly, grossly unfair to the existing races to leave their racial abilities as-is and introduce goblin and worgen racials as they've been listed. This isn't flavor stuff like the dance studio. Either they'll tone down goblins and worgen to be equivalent to everyone else, or they'll bring everyone else up to the new races' racials. If they don't, they may as well rename the game World of Goblin and Worgen-craft: Cataclysm. Because all the troll druid shiny and all the Tauren paladin or human hunter shiny will not outweigh those racial abilities.

[Saturo]

Well, they did state that they would make racials important, and from that particular comment we could derive that they would bring exisisting races up to date as well.

Anyone else feel that the Goblin racials are vastly better than the Worgen ones?

[Rhyela]

I'm not just saying this because I play Alliance, but I feel the Goblin racials are a bit better. Two Forms doesn't actually do anything, it's strictly cosmetic (since you're forced into your Worgen form in combat). The other four sound decent enough (though I see Darkflight as being more of a boon in PvP, but the Goblins have the Rocket Jump, so that's about even). I think I remember Aberration being a decreased chance of being affected by diseases and curses and things of that nature. But yeah, with the faction discount and the rockets and the remote bank access, just seems like Goblin racials are a little better. Not enough for me to get hostile, but enough for me to be slightly irked.

[Gimlion]

Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that Rhyela

[Anansi]

The Goblin racials are quite a bit better than the Worgen ones. I hope to see some pruning from the Goblins in order to balance the two out. Time Is Money should be cut I think. It's an awesome ability and I don't see the justification for having that plus everything else.

[Dulanie]

the goblin racial for faction discount I think makes sence from a lore perspective since they have been integral to the horde for ships, trade, transportation, etc.... After all you really don't want to piss off the people that move your troops/trade goods/build your machines/control your bank

[Anansi]

the goblin racial for faction discount I think makes sence from a lore perspective since they have been integral to the horde for ships, trade, transportation, etc.... After all you really don't want to piss off the people that move your troops/trade goods/build your machines/control your bank

Except that the Goblins who have joined the Horde are not the same Goblins to whom we are accustomed to seeing as traders in Azeroth. Presumably the world of wheeling and dealing is a trait of all Goblins but the ones who have affiliated with the Horde are not the ones who have been plying their trade in Azeroth all this time.

[Azunara]

Agreed. The worgens do seem a bit out of luck on racials. The goblins are awesome, especially the discount...

*debates rolling goblin, then looks at char slots.* I do have one open space....>.>

[Nevar]

I see goblins as bank alts and tinkerer's with their racials. I for one love the worgen ones Aberrations so OP..people are gunna whine about that.. I can feel it. However I'm not saying that just because I'm alli I'm saying that because truthfully I see gobo racials as being well..for bank alts..that and I like that extra 1% damage..

[mpd_84]

dont forget,horde has to deal with that lolnutral crap with half our factions reps.while allis not only all start at friendly,but one of their races gets a bonus to ALL rep grinds.all this racial does is let horde players save money for once...

[Fael]

Darkflight: Activates your true form increasing movement speed by 70% for 10 sec.

By true form I wonder if that means they intend to implement a sort of model change or something? Perhaps you become more like the in-game mobs or what else could they mean? It's not like they're saying "taps into your true nature" or something like that, they purposely put in "activate" and "form". At this time it just makes them run faster, like a rogue or cat sprint. The least I was hoping for was to see them sprint on all fours like the npc worgens do, but reading this makes me wonder if they intend to do more.