Humans are losing their best racial bonus in WoW: The War Within. But the replacement is unpopular – most players consider it useless.
In World of Warcraft, all races have several specific racial bonuses, also known as “Racials”. These are mostly small abilities with minor impact that are meant to fit the respective race. Humans previously had an extremely strong bonus that increased their reputation gain. However, with the new expansion “The War Within”, this disappears – and the replacement is already extremely unpopular.
What was the previous bonus? Until now, humans had the bonus “Diplomacy”. This bonus ensured that they received an additional 10% reputation from all sources. This meant that humans could raise their reputation factions to the maximum faster than any other race in WoW.
This is a clear advantage, especially with factions that can only be farmed a limited amount per day or week – for example, through world quests or daily tasks. Especially in a time when rewards such as gear or new questlines are tied to prestige levels that are bound to reputation.
Now that all reputation progress becomes account-wide with The War Within, the bonus is no longer useful. Therefore, humans will receive a replacement.
What do humans get instead? The new human racial ability will be called “No Place like Home” and will reduce the cooldown of the hearthstone by 5 minutes. Additionally, the hearthstone will now have two charges, allowing you to return to your chosen inn much more frequently.
Why is this being criticized? The new racial bonus has no practical use in the eyes of most players. Characters rarely need to return to their inn anyway, and in a world where dynamic flying allows for extremely fast movement, the advantage of this is further reduced.
Especially in the WoW subreddit, several memes are circulating about the old racial bonus being removed without a replacement or that the new bonus is merely a worse version of the Vulpera bonus.
Please note that the new racial bonus is still an ability from the alpha of The War Within. It is entirely possible that Blizzard will revise this ability and provide something different. What would you like to see as the bonus for humans?
