Human Racial Changes on Horizon in Legion Alpha
by Magistrate - 8 years ago show comments
Kaivax took to the Legion alpha forum today to announce that the long-standing Human racial Every Man for Himself will undergo changes in the next alpha build.
The racial, which currently removes all movement impairing effects, has been under scrutiny for some time, specifically with regards to PvP and how it may affect race (and faction) choice.
Some changes in recent memory, including the buffs to other racial abilities and, if memory serves correctly, tweaks to EMFH in late Warlords, seem to indicate that Blizzard at one point may have seen validity in this–at least as far as balance goes.
However, the upcoming Legion alpha changes to the ability are a response to “changes to PvP gear and the introduction of PvP talents.” The change is intended to make the ability function similarly to Will of the Forsaken, as described below.
Regardless of intent, the changes are only for testing purposes for now as the team conceptualizes how to rationalize the Human racial with new Legion gameplay systems.
In the next version of the Legion Alpha, we’re adjusting the Human racial ‘Every Man for Himself’ to only remove stun effects. The racial will share a 30 second cooldown with other similar effects.
Due to the changes to PvP gear and the introduction of PvP talents in Legion, the Warlords of Draenor implementation of Every Man For Himself no longer makes sense. So instead, we’re trying out an implementation that functions similar to Will of the Forsaken. It will only break Stun effects, but won’t trigger the full 2-minute cooldown on your Gladiator’s Medallion ability (which is the Legion version of the current Medallion trinkets).
As always, this change isn’t final, and we’re looking for feedback from testers once they’ve had some time with it. Please feel free to share your initial thoughts on this here, and for Alpha testers, take your feedback to the Alpha general discussion forum.
