While racial passives don't carry as much weight in modern World of Warcraft as they did in the classic version of the game, there is one race that has an edge over all others thanks to a passive spell that only they have access to.

Diplomacy, the human-exclusive racial trait that grants them a 10 percent boost in reputation from all sources, is easily one of the best passives in all of WoW. In The War Within, however, Diplomacy gets a complete overhaul, and humans lose the 10 percent reputation buff they’ve grown accustomed to.

This change was announced by Blizzard earlier today and is being added to the game due to the emergence of The War Within’s Warband system. Warbands will be an account-wide feature that will make nearly everything in the game shared across all characters on your account. The Diplomacy passive effect is by nature a character-specific effect that only applies to human characters, and therefore directly conflicts with the account-wide nature of the Warband system.

"Unfortunately, this race is causing issues with Warband reputation due to its character-specific nature," Blizzard said in a dev update today. "We don't want players to feel forced to play a specific character or race in order to earn Warband level rewards more efficiently, so we're transitioning this race-specific bonus into something new. We'll share more information about this at a later date."