Summary
InWorld of Warcraft: The War Within, Humans are getting a new racial ability called No Place Like Home that reduces the cooldown of their Hearthstone and gives it a second charge. This passive trait replaces Diplomacy, whichWorld of Warcraftis removing due to the account-wide reputation system coming in the new expansion.
The Warbands system inWorld of Warcraft: The War Withinis making a bunch of features account-wide, including many reputations from Dragonflight and beyond. Because of this,World of Warcraftdecided to remove Diplomacy from Humans. The racial ability gives a flat 10% increase to all reputation gains, which would have forced fans to play a Human to maximize the rep grind for their accounts.
As of the most recent build of thealpha test servers forWorld of Warcraft: The War Within, players now know what is replacing this iconic Human racial feature. No Place Like Home is a new trait that reduces the cooldown of the character’s Hearthstone by five minutes. It also gives their Hearthstone an additional charge, allowing them to return to their home point a second time while the first use is on cooldown.
New Human Racial Ability in WoW: The War Within
By default, the cooldown for using a Hearthstone is 30 minutes. However, the Hasty Hearth perk from being in a guild reduces this cooldown to 15 minutes. This means Human Hearthstones can be dropped down to a 10-minute cooldown – and with access to two charges, players should almost always be able to teleport back to their home point on these characters.
Many fans approve of this new Human racial ability. Being able to use their Hearthstone to quickly get back to town virtually whenever they need to will makeHumans one of the best races to level inWorld of Warcraft, as they will rarely ever have to walk back to their questing hubs.
Some Players Think The ‘No Place Like Home’ Ability Won’t Be Too Useful
On the other hand, some players are less happy with this new racial ability. While they understand why Diplomacy had to go, they don’t think they use their Hearthstone quickly enough to actually benefit from the reduced cooldown and extra charge. These fans also pointed out that the Vulpera’s Make Camp racial ability, Shaman’s Astral Recall, and Mage’s Teleport all seemed too similar, and would rather Humans get quality-of-life benefits like reduced durability cost or quicker mount casts. Regardless,World of Warcraft: The War Withinhas not even started its betayet, so it is possible this new Human racial trait could change further before it is officially implemented.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the ninth expansion pack for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.Dragonflight features an overhauled user interface, raises the level cap to 70, and introduces a new race and class.
