Key Takeaways
- Increased movement speed when using Glide has been reduced for non-Evokers in World of Warcraft.
- Tail Swipe is now an Evoker-only ability.
- Wing Buffet has a three minute cooldown that can be reduced by the Evoker talent.
In the latest update on the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm, the movement speed increase using Glide while playing a non-Evoker Dracthyr has been reduced. This nerf was done before the class expansion for incoming Dracthyr World of Warcraft Patch 11.0.5.
World of Warcraft recently confirmed that Dracthyr will gain access to other classes in Patch 11.0.5. After almost two years of sticking to the Evoker class only, Dracthyr in Wow soon you will be able to play Priests, Hunters, Mages, Rogues, Warlocks, or Warriors.
However, many of their abilities have been tweaked to compensate for this change – and the latest nerf is one of the most significant. Winged Dracthyrs have the ability to jump by pressing the jump button twice, allowing them to slow their fall and slightly increase their movement speed. According to the patch notes for the recent Patch 11.0.5 PTR build, this movement speed boost is reduced for non-Evoker Dracthyrs, taking advantage of the movement abilities of their other classes. .
Dracthyr Racial Nerfs in WoW: The War Within
- The movement speed boost when using Glide is reduced for non-Evokers.
- Tail Swipe is now an Evoker-only ability.
- Wing Buffet now has a three minute cooldown that can be reduced by the Evoker talent.
This isn't the first Dracthyr nerf racial ability for non-Evokers. When World of Warcraft first announced the class expansion, increasing the cooldowns for Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet – two powerful crowd control skills – to three minutes, with the Evoker talent available to reduce them from their current levels . However, subsequent PTR builds removed Tail Swipe from its racial ability, instead making it an Evoker ability.
From a balancing point of view, this nerf makes sense. Giving Priests, Warlocks, and other classes a boost to combat speed with no cooldown is very powerful, and could threaten to make Dracthyr a must-pick race for everyone. World of Warcraft class they can play. Glide is already very useful in PvP and PvE, so allowing non-Evokers to benefit from its increased speed will change the meta.
On the other hand, the Glide is one of the funnest parts of the Dracthyr race, and fans are upset that World of Warcraft then reduce it by throttling the speed. Hopefully the Dracthyr racial unit won't get any more nerfs before the patch is released, probably on October 22nd with the calendar launch date. WowPTR's 20th Anniversary Event.
