Blizzard removes the strongest racial bonus from humans in World of Warcraft. The times of the bonus reputation are over.
With The War Within, there are many new abilities in World of Warcraft. However, one racial bonus is also coming to an end. After over 20 years, Blizzard is taking away the popular reputation bonus from humans. This ability simply has no place in modern WoW anymore and will be replaced by something new.
Which ability is affected? We are talking about the racial ability Diplomacy. This bonus has so far ensured that human characters can gain reputation from almost all sources 10% faster.
If characters, for example, received 250 reputation for completing a quest, then humans would receive a total of 275 reputation. The same applied to reputation factions where reputation was gained by defeating enemies and not just through quests.
Why is this being changed? In The War Within
, the reputation and glory system will be restructured and unlocked account-wide. All your characters will then work on the same progress with the new factions.
This, however, leads to a problem with human characters. Because when humans receive a 10% bonus on reputation while reputation is account-wide, there is basically only one solution for all players:
Everyone has to play human to quickly maximize the glory for all characters.
Blizzard states on the WoW website:
The human racial bonus Diplomacy is currently designed to grant a 10% bonus to reputation gain. Unfortunately, with the Warbands reputation, this racial ability causes issues due to its character-specific nature.
We do not want our players to feel compelled to play a specific character or race in order to unlock Warbands rewards more efficiently, which is why we are converting this racial bonus into something new.
As glory levels have become a significant part of progress, both in terms of rewards with character strength and story unlocks, we want to create equality for all characters.
What do humans get instead? This is still unclear. So far, the revision has not arrived in the test version of “The War Within”. The new ability will likely be implemented at a later date once something new has been devised.
What ability would you give humans instead? And do you think this decision is good?
