COSMETIC S ! THE WORD USED IN A SOD POST ? HAHAAHAH
Please don't make the Ret Pally set focused on Shockadin ffs.
How do you reckon races that already had weapon skill bonuses still get an advantage when you will be able to increase 2 skills and swap them whenever you want? Last I checked, you can't wield 3 weapons at the same time, so there's no advantage unless you only mean you don't have to take 5 seconds to swap them when you get a new weapon of a different type. Unless we are counting hunters who melee with 2 different 1h weapons and do ranged attacks also or we are counting ranged weapons on melee characters. But... seriously?They should really just give those races a different racial (because the change is overall a good idea).
I would like to see Druid bear/cat attack power added to Sulfuras, just so i can roll for it and take it from pally in my group :P
Getting rid of race-specific skills for priests is nothing but a lazy, retail-like approach. In fact, they should introduce more race-specific skills for other classes just as the original WoW intended to implement but could not do it in time and ultimately gave up. This is a role playing game with interesting lores and these developers are, as expected, busy wiping them off and flattening out everything. SOD is slowly becoming a mishmash of Classic and Retail.
There is really no reason to roll a human anything but maybe priest Night Elf 1% dodge and shadow meld (charging eating improving your stealth)Dwarf has Stoneform immunity to Bleed, Poison, and Disease effects. In addition, Armor increased by 10%. Lasts 8 secGnome Escape Artist & Intelligence increased by 5%.
One thing id like to see at 60? How about WoWhead not datamining everything and ruining the surprise for everyone in a season called "Discovery"...