Race change questions.(opinions are welcome) & profession ?sFollow

Let me first say that I do not raid, so saying one race is better when raiding won't help me.

I am thinking about switching around some of my races (I will not be faction changing), and I have a question about a certain race change and then I will list what race/class combinations I have now and ask for your opinions.

I am trying to get a good diverse selection of races on my Horde server, so you may give me input on races for classes that would benefit from changing its race.

My first question is an easy one, but I can't seem to find a concrete answer to it, and Blizzard's Race Change FAQ mount section doesn't include Goblins yet...

I have a Orc Hunter and I was wanting to make him into a Goblin... purely for aesthetic reasons, but as of right now my hunter has no Bligewater rep, but is exalted with Orgrimmar. Without grinding Orgrimmar rep via the heroic dungeon tabard system, is there another way to acquire the Orc wolf mounts? Can I buy them BEFORE the race change and use them afterwards? I read on the race change FAQ that race changing only affects the first three racial mounts and then the ones past the first three will be unchanged... how many mounts do Goblins have? And if I buy all of the Orgrimmar wolves pre-change will I keep any after the change?

I believe the Goblin's racials are just a little bit better than the Orc's EXCEPT Orcs have a 5% pet damage increase.

Here is my race/class combo, and if I am thinking about a race change I will note it somehow. The ones marked with four *s are the ones I am thinking about the most. The three that have two *s are the ones I am on the fence about. I can only afford to do maybe three race changes at this time, so If I do the Druid and Hunter ... I can only do one other.

****80 Tauren Druid (alchy/herb) - I would like a Troll Druid... mainly because I like how they look.
80 Undead Warlock (tailor/enchant) - no change
****85 Orc Hunter (JC/miner) - I would like to change him to a Goblin. I think he would look better with "huge" pets.
**80 Tauren Warrior (BS/miner) - no change now... maybe in the future to Troll or Goblin.
80 Troll Mage (non-specced engineer/miner) - No change, I like him the way he is.
**80 Tauren Shaman (skinner/LW) - I would like to make him a Goblin too, because I am kinda sick of Taurens.
70 Undead Priest (miner/herb) - Meh, she is fine.
**72 Blood Elf Paladin (miner/skinner) - I would like to change her race, but If I did that I would be stuck with a Tauren again and no BE in my lineup. Honestly I don't really care for the look of either Horde Paladin race, but I like the Tauren Paladin mount more.
85 Orc Deathknight (Inscrip/herb) - I like him as an Orc.
32 Goblin Rogue (miner/herb)- I like him as a Goblin.

I have been thinking about switching my hunter to miner/herb (or miner/engineer...or miner/skinner), because with him being a JC it hasn't really helped me at all. Sure I can make my own gems, but getting the gems to make them is demanding. Opinions?

I have one engineer that isn't specced into Gnomish or Goblin engineering, so I would like to have another engineer to go into the opposite spec... mainly for the pets you can make in each spec. Opinions?

I could then technically make my priest a miner/JCing or a herb/JC... or leave her alone at miner/herb... Opinions?

With so many alts I am usually poor (not from the AH, but from buying flying training and stuff) and having multiple gathering professions isn't a bad thing, but I think I may be going overboard... Opinions?

Should I think about moving a profession to someone else? Should I think about putting engineering on another character too? What about JCing? Opinions?

My BIG reason starting this thread was the race change mount question and opinions on my race/class lineup, but any help with professions is a big plus.

Thanks a bunch.

Yeah, that is good advice, but I don't raid. I also don't really group that much with my hunter unless it is guild runs, and they don't care how much I suck.

That is the reason I said, "Let me first say that I do not raid, so saying one race is better when raiding won't help me."

I normally just run dailies, quest, and do random ramblings around not doing much of anything on my hunter unless I am camping a new pet.

There are only 2 Goblin trikes, one for 60% and one for 100%. I'm pretty sure if you switch from Orc to Goblin your Orgimmar rep shouldn't be affected, I don't really see why rep would be affected at all just by changing race.

You can still get orgimmar rep doing orc quests, I believe the cooking/fishing daily gives org rep, also some of the starter quests in Vashj'ir, pretty much any quest you get from an orc gives you orgimmar rep.

As to answer your question about race changing. Since you're not raiding and barely group it's pretty much just whatever you want. If your not doing it to raid/party/rp then it really doesn't matter what race you are just whatever you want to be.

For the professions, it's kind of the same thing, whatever you want to be that might be something you don't already have, gathering professions are good for farming or supplying mats to your other stuff, but I would think twice about giving up jc that easily, it's really expensive to level back up if you choose to do so on another character.

I had all of the professions maxxed in WoLK except for engineering. JC was one of the handiest.

If you want to save gold on stuff, Goblin is the way to go. Their racial is pretty neat like that. We have a few in our guild and had one buy the 7th Guild tab, as it was 500g or so cheaper for him.
I thought about race changing my Orc DK to a goblin just for fun (as I picked Orc over Troll back in LK for the pet Racial from Orcs..however I play Frost and don't summon a ghoul all that often).

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Maybe it would help if you buy the racial orc mounts and don't learn them? Keep them in your bags as you race change. Has anyone tried that?

Edited, Jan 18th 2011 2:40pm by samperor

I never said anyone sucks because they chose a different race or want to be a different race than what is considered optimal, I also never mentioned raiding nor getting mad at anyone for picking a different race. You made that up.

I gave you info on dps because that is the only relevant info I can give you. Hunters are a dps class so dps is important, not just in raids but everywhere. If you're really only interested in aesthetics, my question remains, why the **** do you ask for help? Can't you decide for yourself what you enjoy looking at the most? Visual preference is personal so there's really nothing useful that anyone can say about it, especially since you seem to have all races leveled up far enough to know about their casting/attacking animations and if there's small stuff you (dis)like about the race.

I also didn't say YOU said those things did I? It wasn't even implied. I quoted your previous post because you were talking about DPS in it, and then I talked about the other items mentioned in what you just quoted AFTER I talked about opinions, so if you thought I was implying that you said those things, I apologize.

When I said, "If you do not agree with my way of asking about things... and can't NOT say something about how much I will suck if I choose one race over another... then please don't reply." I was talking to anyone who was wanting to comment on the thread, and letting them know I do not care if one race is better than the other DPS-wise, because it doesn't matter to me.

And for you to keep asking me over and over, "...why the @#%^ do you ask for help?" is just painful when I have said at least twice that I am looking for other people's opinions... I don't have to agree with them, but seeing other people's point of views may change my mind on selecting which race change to do now or even at a later date...

Case(s) in point... I put down that I was thinking about changing my BE Paladin to a Tauren which would leave me BE-less on the server, AND I would have another Tauren... I had enough of other people's opinions told to me about it that I have decided to hold off on it, and I might not even do it. I have also had other people tell me their opinions on why I shouldn't drop JC from my hunter even though I don't use it... and that has changed my mind.

Aethien, I apologize if I mistook your opinion as you jumping onto me about choosing a Goblin hunter over an Orc hunter, but the way I read it it seemed to me that you were telling me I shouldn't do it because of the DPS loss... after I had said I didn't care about "raiding" which I thought would come across as saying "I don't care about a loss of DPS, and neither does my guild" but I guess it didn't. Again, I apologize.





Edited, Jan 18th 2011 11:40am by PentUpAnger

Heh.

This is actually pretty funny, because evidently the internet and forums have made some people scared to express their opinions...

And then there are some people who have been brought up thinking that only their opinions matter.

I am neither.

This forum is a gathering place for people... and therefore I want to know what other people choosed to be their races (and if the race changed), and if they tell me why afterwards then that is fine too.

And there are probably 3 answers you are going to get:

1. Because it provides the best dps compared to other races.
2. Because it looks cool.
3. Because it fits into my RP role.

There really isn't much more to it.

Why did I pick a Troll as my Hunter? Frankly because trolls look cool (1), they also provide some useful racials for increasing dps (2). I would like to change my troll to goblin, why? because goblins look pretty bad *** (1). But I really don't want to spend the money to do so.

When I changed from Nelf to Worgen I lost none of my nelf mount. I am assuming this is because there were no Worgen mounts to switch to. So it stands to reason that you would only lose one fast and one slow wolf. As for the rep I was exalted with everyone EXCEPT Gilneas now I am exalted with Gilneas and not Darnassus. Hope that helps.

Assuming that your cobra shots are at 1.66 seconds cast time.

Explosive shot > 3x cobra > explosive > repeat.
When BA is off cooldown, BA + arcane + 2x cobra instead of 3x cobra.
When lock and load procs ExS > cobra > ExS > Arcane > ExS.
If, for some reason, you are still focus capped with this rotation, use 2 arcane shots instead of 1 cobra shot.

BM is even simpler, KC > 3x cobra > KC > repeat.
When you're high on focus, throw in 2 arcanes to replace 1 cobra or 3 arcanes to replace 2 cobras if you're really high on focus.

> = next when I use it in a rotation, I could do -> too but I'm too lazy.

Start with Explosive > Black Arrow > Serpent > Steadyx2 > Explosive and then repeat ExS > Steadyx3.
Don't worry too much about focus capping, it's not as bad as it is for rogues or ferals.

As long as you shoot explosive and black arrow on cooldown and keep Serpent sting up any excess focus you dump into arcane is nice and a dps boost but not that much of an influence on your dps.