I've mained a Templar since console release. I like Magplars so I have a few. Sometimes they're in a good place, but other times they've been really, really bad.
But whatever they've changed, I've rolled with it. I've got a choice of either making do, deleting them and making better characters or just not playing them for a while. The same choices everyone has now.
Instead of complaining that you're not getting something for nothing, maybe you should just be glad that the balance hammer is passing over racial passives this time, something you have the option of doing something about, rather than messing up class skills again which you'd just be stuck with
These min/maxers crack me up. If they found the math was better for a different combination, they would reroll a toon anyway, even if no changes were made from the developer side.
But because the developer initiated this one, they want to whine for lost time. Add into it that class balance has been whined about for a long time from those people.
Just whine, whine, whine, cry, cry, cry all of the time from these people. I don't think anything would make them happy. Complaining (especially when anonymously) can be an addiction. Just one browse through a Facebook feed can show you that.
Seraphayel wrote: »I don't think it's fair to assume that. Each person is affected by these changes, so each person should be able to decide how many changes they need.
A similar unfair assumption that's been going around is that only meta-chasers are affected by these changes. For instance, I'm as far from being a meta-chaser as a player can get and have several characters who's entire design was directly based upon their racial skills, skills which have now been completely removed. Like my bosmer sniper who was completely structured around the old bosmer racial skills of stealth and extra damage from stealth, both of which are being completely removed. And my Dunmer flame DK which was designed completely around their racial bonus to fire damage, which is also being completely removed. And being able to replicate those abilities with gear is not an answer because as they were, they had those abilities with complementary gear. Had these racials merely been reduced, that's one thing, but their primary abilities are going to be completely gone. It's not too much to ask for ZOS to make right on that.
You see, this is exactly the problem. Nobody, really nobody needs the race changes. The decision about "how many changes someone needs" is individual. If you think you need 10 changes, buy them.
None of the changes makes a race change mandatory. It's almost hysterical now to ask for unlimited race changes because - as some make it sound - it's a decision between life and death when in fact it's just a decision between 1.2% or 1.3%.
Not sure you read what I posted as the two examples I gave weren't facing a % decrease, rather they had old racial abilities needed for their builds completely removed.
Ok, so going on your examples you use the free change to make your Bosmer a Khajiit to get the sneak back. Your Dunmer might be (might be - nothing is even set in stone yet) losing it's extra flame damage but seeing as it's not going to any other race instead I don't see the urgent need for a race change in that case