Class Racials

[dark_knight_kain]

I was hoping the developers would consider looking into the class racial skills and try to balance them by making small tweaks.

Now I'm not asking for any racials to be nerfed, I merely would like some of the weaker, less useful racials to be revamped. At the moment, there are racial skills that do not scale very well when it comes to leveling, or are inherently less useful.

Developers are constantly making changes to archetypes patch after patch to balance out game play. Why not take a similar approach to balancing the classes within archetypes?

I know racial skills give each archetype some variety, and each race and class a certain identity, but some racials are never used while others are integral and can change the results on the battlefield. It should not be this way. I hope that this feedback will get some attention.

An alternative I think might work would be if a Cash Shop item is sold (maybe around 1000 Gpots?) that allows you to do a one time change of your racial skill to any other racial skill within your own archetype. Meaning if you were a Kanian Champion you could buy this item and change your racial skill to a Gibberling Brawler's, Orc Brute's, or Xadaganian Vanquisher's.

[arisenpanda]

Give Astral arrow 2-3 seconds cast time and 30-60 seconds cooldown. It's dps sucks, and it is an useless spell as it is now.

[rondow]

I would love to have an area knockdown instead of an area fear. Kind of forces Orc Brutes to be DPS'ers and Kanian Champs tanks somewhat because of that.
But yea, both of those racials are much better than most other racials.

[aaaawesome]

like elven summoners racial T_T

[dark_knight_kain]

like elven summoners racial T_T

That spell has to be one of the worst racial skills, basically useless and a waste of mana. And like I said, this shouldn't be the case. All racial skills should be something you would be proud of and love to use all the time.

I remember when Explosive Shot wasn't a very good racial for Rangers pre-patch, and now it's so awesome!

[hotfizzle]

Wouldn't using a racial skill from a different race undermine the very definition of the word racial skill?

I don't mind balancing them out, and I'm all for that. But switching them?

[dark_knight_kain]

Wouldn't using a racial skill from a different race undermine the very definition of the word racial skill?

I don't mind balancing them out, and I'm all for that. But switching them?

I would think a CS item that would allow the option of choosing one of the possible class racials within a particular archetype will open up PvP and allow builds to diversify a bit. It would be a popular CS item and a source of income for Gpotato, while offering players another way to customize their toons.

I mean shouldn't using a class costume from a different class undermine the very definition of the word class costume?

Reincarnation and Progenitor shared skills already opens up more skill customization and takes down some barriers between archetypes, I merely want to see the same thing happen between classes and their racial skills.

[gladianator]

Elven summy racial is op. It needs a nerf imo.

[therealskypirate]

I dunno I think they should just expand upon racials. There are some really good racials out there

For example Orc warrior, Kanian Warrior, xada summy, kanian healer,

Then there are racials that I miss. Remember Exhaust evil? BOOM MANA DRAIN or energy drain. Man that thing could drain like 3k mana back in the day. Remember Xadaganian healer, do xadaganian healers even have a racial anymore?

Remember that terrible racial a certain scout class used to have, "Ability to see stealthed units" oh god that was awful. They need to change up alot of racials Some classes I feel like dont even Have racials.

Come to think of it, if Xadaganians summoner racial is the best summoner racial then all summoners need a change lmao. At least other classes get cc's as a racial T_T.
Bards dont even need racials that can just be removed completely.

[volarin]

I agree.
Having an item in the cash shop that specifically allowed you to learn a new racial spell within the same archetype would be nice to have.

They could also buff & nerf a couple of existing racials at the moment as well.