I only thought of this moments before posting likelihood of racial passives being addressed is low but maybe this will bring enough to the devs attention and even a pass on some racial changes for under utilized races

There are still places where mounts are not allowed where you can take advantage of that, like points in the Dreadsail Reef and Ossein Cage trials.

Racial bonuses attached to the free skill point are specifically for flavor. Let's face it, nobody complains that Orcs only get a boost to crafting inspiration when other races get something useful like XP or AP bonuses. But Crafting is something most people can level completely in a month, leaving Orcs without any bonuses at all.

BattleAxe wrote: »

Redguards should be essentially the stamina equivalent of Bretons
Woodelves could be made similar to khajit
Argonians it’s a little more hit or miss perhaps just a numbers increase to all passives and maybe a change to the swimming speed to something more useful or put the poison disease resistance in its place and give a new passive in their place

Funny enough wood elf already lost its unique-ness when zos gave everyone fall damage mit in cp. Since alliances mean nothing, it would be nice to see wood elf get more in terms of critchance while khajit have the absurdly strong crit damage and healing on lock.

As far as the elemental resistances, I think these are outdated and highly prone to balance changes. Like currently in PvP there is almost no poison or disease spam like there was back in the day. Fire resist is always useful for vampires. Nord frost countered the frostwarden meta. Balance wise these are impossible.

How does mount swimming take away from argonians swimming too? I play an argonian and im not seeing the problem.

Racial passives should have been reworked ages ago, I'd honestly rather have all of the combat related ones replaced for other stuff, it still bothers me how you need to be either Dunmer/Altmer to optmise DPS, or Nord for tanking, meanwhile you have races like Redguards and Bosmers that aren't the best for any role.

Well, since you asked nicely, khajiit will share that he fully intends to mount on top of his swimming argonian friends. Fishy Cat Surfing for the Tamriel Olympic Games

Nestor wrote: »

I guess you would have to ride an Argonian to get the boost in Swim Speed.

Don't have to tell me twice 😏

Tier 1 racial passives are purely thematic/flavor. I primarily play Argonians ESO and only them in main line games, and I don't know what else that could replace it that is purely thematic and flavorful while fitting into the game. Like with the other Tier 1 passives, it's now going to become mostly useless once you the max in a similar skill line or passinve, in this case mount speed, and that's fine since it never really that useful anyway.

For the rest of their passives, I'll say Resourceful is great. The extra healing on a potion has saved me more than once. Argonian Resistance and Life Mender need to be looked at though since they don't offer much. I'll be selfish and say they should receive a crit chance bonus for being thematically assassins. Move the bonus HP to life mender, probably increase it to 1500 or increase healing done by a small amount, and put a 4-5% crit bonus on Argonian Resistance, keep the current disease/poison resistance, and rename it something else so it makes sense, something Blackmarsh related. They're one of the few races that doesn't have anything to help them out combat wise since healing is already ridiculously overpowered and disease/poison damage is underutilized and already mitigated by physical resistance, and it's already easy enough to reach the resistance cap.