My main char is a Sta DK Nord Tank/DPS, when i was making my first char, i didn’t know which to chose, so i pick Nord because of Skyrim. Then i realize the existence of the racials, and that the Nord ones are terrible. So recently I decided to change to Argonian but then i heard about the race changes, and was hoping that Nords would finally have good racial passives, but looks like i’ll have to change.

Nords got their 9% Hp bonus converted to 1000, while Imperials, their 12% went to 2000. This 5 ult when hit don’t look like something that can compete with the other races, the last racial stays the same, damage reduction, which is too small to make any difference.

The point is, the only thing Nord passives are good is to be a tank, but not even for that he is good, Imperials do that way better, and since many ppl don’t play Just 1 role per char, you could choose a race like Redguard or Orc, to tank and do DPS in PvE and PvP. So why would i chose to be Nord instead of Orc, Redguard, Imperial or even Argonian? (Even with the nerf, still very useful passive)

Woeler about tank races:
1. Argonian -> Extra healing output and input, plus a built in resource management system and a health bonus.
2. Imperial -> 12% health is still a massive bonus that cannot be neglected.
3. Nord / Orc -> Both have good tanking traits, but are not as strong as the ones listed above.

Alcast tank recomendations:
1.Argonian, 2. Imperial, 3. Orc, 4. Nord, 5. Redguard, 6. Khajiit

If i could change Nords, i would add a passive to restore HP and Sta when he gets hit, it was something like this i was expecting with those race changes, something useful, something that give a reason to pick them over the others.

And then the Wood Elf, the worst race together with Nords. I have a sta dps redguard, that I put some sta regen items to make a sta healer, I wanted to make a char just for that, so I made a wood elf (that have more sta regen), but since I wanted to create other chars, I deleted it. That’s the use I found for Wood Elf, sta healer fun/test build, why would I use for anything else, Redguard, Khajit and Orc are better for Sta builds.

Wood Elfs had(still) the same passive of khajit, but since khajit have the crit, people will obv choose them. Only only big diff in the new Wood passives is the mov speed when roll dodge, and that’s it, you get some sta regen, some max sta, and roll dodge speed, like the nord ult regen, not a big deal.

Wood elfs are seen as bow users, but the only bow “specialization” that they have is the bonus xp… wow so good… I was expecting more of those race changes, maybe a dmg bonus for bows, or even cost reduction.

Now Khajits are not only stamina based but also magicka, and Dark elfs too, now there will be way more ppl playing them , with diff builds. While wood elfs are still the same boring “sta regen” race

If ZoS release the racial distribution, i’m sure Nords and Wood Elfs gonna be on the bottom, no surprise there.

Nord and Wood Elf are this race that you only make because you already have all the other races, and want to see how they are. Also for RP, the "RP Races"

I'm surprised people are not talking more about it, probably because there's not a lot of players playing them to care lol...