Racial passives got already changed a few times since release of the game, each time with positive but also negative feedback. I personally always thought theyre pretty irrelevant and you better play with wichever race you want, but... in endgame content, it matters a whole lot which race you are. Youre a tank as a high elf? A dd as Argonian? Youre very likely to not get chosen for high level activities, just because the race you like/choose isnt meta for your role. And i find that pretty sad.

If we wanted to be political correct, all races should be treated the same, cause theyre all worth the same and should have equal rights. But theres a lot of racism and even slavery in TES Lore and ESO, so i guess a few diffrences per race are acceptable for this game. Also the point that this is only a game. For instance it makes total sense for Argonians to swim faster then others, or Khajiits to sneak better (others on the other hand make no sense at all, Orcs have more sprint speed then others? They should be pretty much the slowest race imo, just because of their bodies, no matter how strong they are. Just tell a weightlifter to sprint a 100m, see how that goes).

So ill just throw an idea out here, i just thought a bit about it, its not perfect, its not yet meant as a suggestion, its just an idea up for discussion, right here.

How about keeping the special passives that all races already have, also change some a little bit, but no stat-passives? So for instance, Argonians keep their swimspeed, but dont get more magicka and health by default, and same for all others. As for changes you could make, probably something like giving sprint speed to Woodelves or something, and Orcs... something that makes more sense, idk.

Id just think making all races equaly good in any role would be fairer to people who just choose their race after what they liked the most, as it should be imo. Ill never make an Argonian stamina Nightblade, even tho it would fit with the Shadowscales and all, but their passives just dont fit, so i could play solo with it, low level content, but thats it. Noone would take me into a raid. In PvP i would be at a noticable disadvantage. Also i would never play an Orc, because i dont like them (not racist lol), even if it is the best race for some builds.

So, but what about the stat-passives then, i hear you say? Just removing them would take quite a bit of rebalancing other things, and youre right. Heres the second part:

Put all those passives into the World-Skilltree (or a new one, idk), so we can freely choose any we need for our role, at that moment. BUT, let us only be able to pick 3 passives at a time. So ofc you couldnt just take everything and be a god [even tho you pretty much are already, but nvm that), no you still would have to choose whats most important for you atm. For a magicka dd, maybe max magicka and magicka regen, for a tank max health and stamina regen etc. So just what you do atm already, but not bound to specific classes.

And last but not least, we already are heavily restricted by our classes for which roles we can play effective, ofc you can play anything as any class and race, but you cant argue everything is just as effective as anything else. And we cant change classes, probably never will be. Also, now with the vampire changes, we have some more freedoms in some places, but were also even more restricted in others. So at least some more freedom in as what we WANT to play would be appreciated, by me at least. It just doesnt scream variety when almost every tank is a Redguard, and most healers are Argonians or Bretons etc...