Take a look around this forum with everyone arguing about which race should get which passives. People are basing their race choices on the passives available. No one is completely happy with the passives for any given race. As others have said, race should be a completely cosmetic choice...that way people can play the race they actually want to play. Sure, this might lead to a reduction in the "beast races"(or maybe not) but in reality...those races are rather rare outside of their zones anyway, so this would reflect the in-game reality rather well. People should just be able to choose whatever "character passives" they want(allow them choose whatever 3 they want), because regardless of what generalizations in expertise a given race has, there are always outliers...and as your character is a hero in the game...they are already an outlier. I for one am tired of trying to make my characters look halfway decent because the base race is one I am choosing strictly for their passives and would otherwise never play...it really makes no sense whatsoever that people are playing races they dont like just to get some passive or another...and then its even worse because the BIS DPS, tank, or healer is locked behind an alliance you may not have access to without buying the any race any alliance pack(not that I care about BIS anything myself, but many do) The whole system is completely stupid and no on is playing the game like they want because of it. The same holds true for class...class should be determined by 3 basic skill lines you pick....not picking a class because you like one particular skill line and hate the rest.
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