I fail to see how this is entirely true. You can watch and simply wait for perception to wear off. In arenas, I'm often going to want to start invisible likely anyways to avoid initial focus fire. Even if you do get seen, you can most likely vanish-run away, yeah it sucks you lose a 5 minute cooldown, but it sucks to have a racial that at best forces one class to use one of their cooldowns to counter it.

Even if you think perception is very effective against rogues (it isn't, escape artist/stoneform/draenie heal would all be better), and mildly effective against NE hunters in duels, it does nothing against the vast majority of classes. The other 'combat' racials are effective against multiple classes, easier to use and less situational, and are more game breaking when used well. (hello wotf, warstomp, ae silence, draenie heal, stoneform, shadowmeld)

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As for reputation bonus, I do think the few hours you save are wholly worthless. Particularly, when you work with groups of people on reputations (brood, AD rep, CC rep), it just amounts to you finishing earlier, and sitting with a full green exalted bar longer. Although I agree that likewise all of the +profession and find- treaure type racials are equally useless at end game.

+CC rep was definitely not worthless if you had your Earthstrike for weeks longer than everyone else and spent less time getting it.

I have to say I've never understood the argument that Perception is a useful PVP racial. It works against precisely 1.3 classes. It's on a cooldown and doesn't last very long, so you have to know they're there in the first place. And if you know a rogue is there, why fuck around with perception? Use Rank 1 IAE or Demo Shout or Demo Roar or Rank 1 Hellfire or Consecrate or Flare or hit up Stealth yourself. The only class I missed out there is Priest, and if you're specced right you can use Holy Nova, all of which will bring the Rogue out of stealth as well.

Usually, of course, the first hint you get that a rogue is there is when he ambushes/Gouge/Saps you, by which point either he's out of stealth or you're stunned, so Perception is either useless or you can't use it because you're incapacitated. It's good for duels and that's it.

Anyway, as for rerolling, I personally wouldn't bother. It's a very slight boost to one specific spec. If that's really worth another three months of your life just to get back to the position you're already in, then go for it I guess, but to be honest it's a huge price for a tiny benefit. And Blizzard may well fix it in any case.

I don't really see that letting your team possibly be outnumbered in a 2v2 or 3v3 arena would be a good thing. It might be viable 5v5 but then again there's a bigger chance you'd be up against more than one human.

The factions you gain in grouped settings generally come so fast that it isn't a big worry. There are a lot of different factions that people (at least where I've played) generally solo most of where Diplomacy is quite nice.

Again, it is what it is, but I don't really see how you can argue that Diplomacy is useless.

What? Tauren don't get WOTF.

The only thing this is good for is one-shotting Black Lotus at 315+10 herb. For the times when you just don't have the time to fail with an elite patrol/pro farmer mere seconds from you. :)

I heard that AOE debuffs that do no damage don't work anymore for destealthing people (eg demo shout.)

Plus, wtf? Like you can just get rage to spam demo shout? Plenty of times in PVP I've known a rogue has just restealthed but I have no way to spam demo shout enough to find him. Bloodrage is 1 demo shout.

To carry on with the derailment, I stand fast on Perception being useful. Why? Because it's the only thing that will take away my opener. You're not going to catch me with IAE spamming unless you already know where I am. If I want I can just wait until you get tired of running around spinning in mid-air spamming IAE. Demo shout, as noted, costs rage which is not in endless supply (bar 41pt Arms :lol:) and the same applies to it as IAE spamming. Only helps you if you already know where I am.

Perception is not a top-tier PvP racial for sure. WotF, WS, Escape Artist and Stoneform are all better although only two of them are available to mages ofc. But catching a Rogue preemptively at 15-20yard range (actual distance varies mostly by lag) is not to be scoffed at, and it will win you the fight unless the Rogue vanishes and sprints away. But that's 2x 5 minute (less with talents) cooldowns gone to counter a 2 minute (or is it 3m?) racial and he hasn't even touched you yet. Bad trade for the Rogue. Beats dying in outdoor pvp I suppose but in BGs you won't see it.

It's only occasionally and Rogues learned to pay attention to it a long time ago but I'm not taking "It ain't useful" for an answer. ;)
Resisted aoe more like it, though I neglected to keep track of the change. It's not as if rogues resist aoe all the time.

Plenty of ways to deal with Rend or Deep Wounds. He can Rupture+Crippling or Blind me and back off until Rend runs out (doesn't even need a Vanish), he can be a Dwarf, or if he's good he can Vanish right after a Rend tick then re-open before the next tick.

Ah, but WotF is useless against Rogues, Mages, Hunters, Shamans, and Paladins, and is only marginally useful against Warriors - yet many people still consider it to be the best racial ever.

To be fair, Fear is the most common CC in battlegrounds by far. Probably because it's the only AoE one.

Between Psychic Scream, Howl of Terror and Int Shout I feel like every single time there is a group vs group engagement there is an AoE fear bomb dropped, oftentimes more than one.

Plus since I absolutely hate Warlocks (Poly heals the target but goddamn Seduce doesn't? How the hell is Poly + Nuke any different from Seduce + nuke?), being able to break Fear or Seduce would be so nice.