Many of us can honestly agree that the racial abilities can make a huge impact on your character. I remember on retail when all the PvPers rolled human due to the racial and how many wanted to dump Tauren when they gutted the stamina racial to only boost base health instead of all health. Or the fact that the Gnome engineering racial allowed you to build engineering pets that were 3 levels higher than what any other race could create.
Not saying we have to go through a check list of which abilities we want per use otherwise we would have some racial abilities which would be completely ignored., Just choose your race and at level 1 you go through the menu and can select a set of racial abilities off the list such as you can choose the human racials as a whole or the Orc racials and so on and this would even open up the ability for new racial builds in the future that could be balanced against it, not that blizzards was really all that balanced to begin with.
Or if we wanted to go through the lists and go in depth have them select:
- A single elemental resistance
- A single boosted skill level (And gathering professions have boosted gathering speed)
- A single activated ability (And any associated passives directly related to it such as Shadowmeld and boosted stealth level)
- A single flavor racial out of the list.
- A single boosted weapon type or pet.
- A single boosted stat (To be honest, this could be removed as you guys already included it with the stat specialization)
Would be cool to be able to select your race entirely based on their look and the location they have associated with them without feeling like you gimped yourself due to racials.
Off topic, is it just me or does anyone else feel this setup really leaves the Blacksmithing and Leatherworking professions lacking compared to Engineering, Enchanting, and Alchemy which is equally useful regardless of what armor class you respec into using with at least tailoring being the gathering profession for enchanting?