Getting BG rep is going to lose effectiveness (due to rewards being tied towards collecting honor tokens), I doubt someone could get enough runs in ZG to get exalted on a new character, and I hope that getting rep with Thorium/CC/Argent Dawn for resist items will go away in the future.

I was not implying that a rerolled human would grind these in the expansion. I dont know what blizzard has planned for the reputation system in the future, but 10% faster/quicker/easier will always be good.

I don't know about the rest but since I started play a Rogue, human Perception has really started pissing me off in PvP.

Perception only helps if I know you're there. Outside of a duel or a PVP arena event, I won't know you're there until you've attacked me.

If I could transfer my gear and my rep to a new character I would immediately start to level a gnome, dwarf or human rogue instead of my n811. Undead racials are sweet as well since they do have one more trinket slot in pvp effectively, but changing sides is even less an option. But since this is impossible and since I do not have the time to regrind everything I have achieved till now...oh well...

Anyone with the time to grind hard core and get to 70 should find the gear there decent enough to let them switch over to a new character/class for raiding 25's. But make damn sure you get to 70 well beforethe magic number is reached, and that your guild mates and officers are AOK with it.

I dunno how many shammy switches alliance will have to deal with, or pally switches for horde, but I bet it'll be too many! :)

NE have good stuff too. They have +1 stealth, 1 to dodge, a few more agilty than humans, and your corpse runs are shorter!

I wonder how many Shaman would want to be a Pally. Sure, Pallys are better support classes, but their dps potential is lower. I can understand Pally to Shaman.

I'd like to see some racial bonus changes in the Expac. Dwarves are, of course, already perfect, and the rest of you are puny and weak by comparison, however these new races are getting abilities comparable to my awesomeness, so I feel sorry for you lesser beings. :D

One of the big factors in shaman/paladin rerolls is the reduced raid size. Raids are going to be losing about two people from each class. So anyone rerolling to an existing class will be taking a slot from someone... but there are no shamans/paladins to complain about losing their spot.



As for humans and reputation, one of the interviews said that reputation is going to be much less important. Grinding will be faster and less important, if in there at all (think AQ40). Quest required rep (like with ZG or Cenarion Hold) will be achievable in 3-4 quests. We'll see if the racials remain the same though, especiall +weapon skill.

This is what bothers me as well.

In the near past I got the impression that Blizzard was trying to push the dagger rogue somewhat relative to the sinister strike rogue. If this trend continues in the expansion, then being nightelf may actually be the better choice, albeit very slightly.

However the current state of the new talents does not have me excited very much either way (I am seriously pondering if I should try 21/0/40 in the expansion). Combat dagger rogues either pick up seal fate or go 41/x/x and loose DW Spec or Opportunity, Sinister Strikers best option is probably 30/31/0. Some additional changes are probably coming.

Also I got the impression that while in the past combat dagger and combat sword and played very similar (which made it easy for Blizzard to balance the two) now Blizzard actively tries to generate a different gameplay style for each weapon type. I would not be surprised it the new and revamped 41pt Combat talent would favour swords/fists/maces. In that case I would probably favour the sword gameplay.

Being a human would be the safe bet, since in PvE you loose very little (relative to Nightelves) if you go daggers but gain a lot if you go swords.

Too many unknowns...

+5% spirit!