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Patty
In my opinion, female draenei or human female paladins are the most aesthetically pleasing for the Alliance, in their animations as well as plate bras.
Post by
Brique
Dumpy little dwarf women have some of the most unique animations. Their shield bash animation is like they're throwing their full body weight into it. Male draenei and their shield block animation almost sold me on playing a tank, too.
But dorf women have singlehandedly taken the most ridiculous whirlwind animation ever. In a world of T10 Ret procs, you'll see it a lot if you're doing some DPS.
I do like the draenei heal casting animations, too. Blood elf girls have the single best 2H special animation.
Really, animations are what sell me on race choices. Sometimes what made me chose to play female characters too. I mean, if I find an animation annoying or clumsy, I'm probably not going to enjoy playing the character.
Dwarf males and their tippy toe idle animation and their narrow split running animations just turned me away. Female humans and their idle "heaving sigh" is pretty blah to me. Human males and their 2H special just looks wonky when it happens a few times in 2 seconds. It looks like an out of time jumprope. 2H melee attacks from human and dwarf males and females just look weak every once in a while.
It's just preference when it comes down to it, and I'm picky about what my characters do in the game world.
The human racial does not add an effect. It's something you can get from a trinket. Stoneform adds something you can't get from a trinket. As a human, you're never going to get an opportunity to clear all bleeds/poisons/diseases and gain armor. As a dorf, you're always able to equip a PvP trinket. Any racial's effect is usually very minor in the grand scheme of things. I'd venture to guess that there are so many players that forego racials and totally exceed the average. What's up with the draenei holy paladin in the top 100 arena paladins with all of his teams at 2200+? It's not like Gift of the Naaru is giving him some weird advantage, and he doesn't seem to be at a disadvantage without Arcane Torrent. Oh well. Race choice has very little to do with gameplay.
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Balstradan
Dwarf Paladins. They look good in their tier sets.
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zoomie
Draenei is practically worthless because the hit racial gets applied to a group so you don't even need to be a draenei to get this buff. Plus the hot they get starts to get weak around level 40ish and is VERY weak at level 80 and will NEVER EVER prevent you from dieing. You can say "Well if my healer gets stunned feared incapacitated..." Well it is easy to say that when you don't look at how LITTLE this heal actually heals you for. It's like thinking you are ready to go to war with China because you have a gun but you find out the hard way that the gun you have is only a weak ass paintball gun and doesn't do anything but make you look like an idiot.
Between human and dwarves, there really isn't a best. Though in all honesty, expertise is a more important threat stat than hit so for that very reason humans and dwarves automatically beat draenei. How many tanking axes are there in the game currently? There is falrics wrist chopper, but if you can get that you can also get your hands on a rimefangs claw, which is actually better regardless. GG human. The tanking weapon from 10 man marrowgar is a mace, 10 man putricide is a sword, and 25 man putricide is a mace. The 10 man LK weapon is an axe but it is a little lack luster compared to the other tanking weapons in ICC.
Stoneform is a situational cooldown but certainly will not make or break a fight. If you wipe because you didn't have stoneform then you were going to wipe anyway. Every man for himself is the same way. It doesn't make or break the encounter but it does provide a little benefit and if you are going to wipe because you don't have it then you are going to wipe anyway.
However, hard mode sindragosa, dwarf wins. The extra frost resistance a dwarf has could come in very very handy on that fight. It may not make or break the fight, but in that fight the frost breath in phase 2 is huge.
Post by
OscarDivine
I vote HUMAN but ALWAYS for the same reasons:
Racial 1
Racial 2
There will ALWAYS be more rep to grind in this game. always.
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