Originally Posted by Amera

I really don't understand why they feel the need to make priest racials any more than a small extra cookie for people, rather than a class-defining ability. I spent the first 2 years of WoW as a night elf priest lamenting my completely worthless racials every day, and this was before arena made them even more obviously horrible. I haven't seen a night elf priest in high-rated (2100+) arena play in any bracket in over a month - and I'm just being generous there, because it might have been even longer than that.

Now they give night elves a nice but not breaking pvp racial in Elune's Grace and a completely overpowered DoT in PvE and PvP. And there is no reason whatsoever not to be a dwarf holy priest in arena.

A number of times in technical 2v2 and 3v3 matches we've lost games because a blood elf paladin has an interrupt on a 2 minute timer that, as a human, I can't compete with, and now dwarves are going to have one on a 30 second timer?

This isn't even an arena thing anymore. I can't believe someone looked at these and thought they were decently balanced or have even remotely the same utility.

And the worst part about them is they *Aren't even related to talent specs.* This isn't something you can spend 50g and go fix - this is a choice you made up to 3 years ago that gimps the effectiveness of your character.