New details have surfaced about Goblin Racials and Worgen Racials in WoW Cataclysm. These new WoW Cataclysm races were playable at the 2009 Winter Dreamhack, and this gives us a good chance to revisit these all important new Cataclysm racials and see how overpowered they actually are.

Goblin Racial Traits and Goblin Racial Abilities in WoW Cataclysm

• Best Deals Anywhere – This is a passive racial ability that will allow you to save money. Hardcore players and PVP fanatics won’t really care much about this one as money is not something that can really give you an edge over other players. Casual players or those who are stingy about money will nevertheless appreciate this goblin racial trait that allows you to save some money when purchasing vendor goods, whether it is quest items, consumables, reagents, or other items that you may want to buy from an NPC. 
• Pack Hobgoblin – This Goblin racial allows you to call a servant for duration of 1 minute which allows you to put items in your bag in the bank, or alternatively allows you to fetch items from your bank that you need to use while ‘out on the battlefield’. This is no doubt a powerful ability, and one that will have alot of utility, both when you’re leveling or you’re just out doing some instances and need to fetch an alternate build gear or some consumables that you ran out of. It has a 30 mins cooldown and will leave many other players jealous when you do make use of him in dire situations.
• Better Living Through Chemistry – This is a passive 15 skill boost to Engineers of the Goblin race. Perhaps we will see in the Cataclysm expansion some gadgets that can only be made/used by only Goblin engineers as a result of this advantage. Another area where it might help is for twinks who like to buy grenades and other items – which at that level has large implications.
• Rocket Barrage – This next Goblin racial ability fire your belt rockets towards an enemy, inflicting fire damage. There is only a 2 minute cooldown, and initial tests have suggested this is off the global cooldown, so it will be a great source of ‘free’ extra damage to goblin classes.
• Rocket Jump – For only a 2 minute cooldown, this racial of Goblins in WoW Cataclysm will allow you to jump forward, either to catch up to enemies or create some distance between yourself and an opponent. This is one of the most overpowered racials seen to date in WoW up there with the old Will of the Foresaken. This is compared to the Warrior ultimate ability called Heroic Leap in the last expansion that failed to make it in the game due to programming difficulties. Other races in WoW are going to need a boost to their own racials if Blizzard doesn’t want people to complain too much about this IMBA racial.
• Time is Money – A 1% increased attack and spell haste is nothing to sneeze at, and will give goblin DPS classes out there yet another way to outdamage the so far ‘lesser races’ of Warcraft

Worgen Racial Traits and Worgen Racial Abilities in WoW Cataclysm

• Viciousness – This Worgen racial will allow all Worgens to do 1% extra damage overall. This includes both physical attacks and spell attacks, so it is beneficial to all players who are into DPS.
• Dark Flight – For 10 seconds, Worgen run at 70% increased speed using this extremely overpowered racial ability. The cooldown is only 3 minutes, and I can’t possibly imagine how this is going to be balanced during PVP play. A free sprint to some classes is just not a good idea IMO.
• Abberation -This Worgen racial is a passive skill that reduced the length of Curses and Deseases by 15%.  Here’s another interesting racial that is not really balanced around PVP when you consider it severely affects two specific classes: Death Knights and Warlocks.
• Flayer – As a Worgen, you will no longer need a skinning knife and you skinning skill will be increased by 15 plus you get to skin faster. This makes sense in terms of lore and Blizzard will surely give some nice bonuses to those who have max skinning skill PLUS this 15 points from the racial.
• Two Forms – With a 1.5 second cooldown, you can switch back and forth between a Worgen beast or a human – but you can only do so outside of combat. During combat, you will always remain a Worgen as you should be.This is a cosmetic shift that will please the RPers out there and those who like to mess around in the capital cities tricking noobs – perhaps it can also trick some new PVPers when you’re out in a BG and people think they are attacking some Human player, although I can’t think what would be the advantage of that.

Overall it seems that Goblin racials are the most overpowered in this new WoW Cataclysm expansion and Worgen’s aren’t too far back with their quite ridiculous sprint ability. Blizzard has noted that each race in WoW Cataclysm will receive an uphaul to their racials so fear not. We will report the following racials in the future when they are announced:

WoW Cataclysm Human Racials

WoW Cataclysm Gnome Racials

WoW Cataclysm Dwarf Racials

WoW Cataclysm Draenei Racials

WoW Cataclysm Nightelf Racials

WoW Cataclysm Undead Racials

WoW Cataclysm Tauren Racials

WoW Cataclysm Orc Racials

WoW Cataclysm Troll Racials

WoW Cataclysm Bloodelf Racials

Hope this clears up any confusion you had over the Worgen and Goblin WoW Cataclysm racials, and please don’t start freaking out (too much) over how IMBA they are just jet, because as just mentioned there WILL be new racials for the classic WoW races in Cataclysm.