TheWoWDBIt is indeed magical damage only, which means that subtley rogues will want gloomblade as nightborne, and you'd prefer talents that exchange physical for magical.
Combined with the underwhelming damage racial, this leads me to believe that choosing to be a non-caster nightborne should be exclusively for flavor or roleplay, not because you want to have the best racials. Sorry min-maxers.
Spell
Magical Affinity
Physical
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Is this magical damage only? The Spell Details seem to suggest it's all damage:
Effect Apply Aura: Mod Damage Done % (All)
Value: 1%
You're missing the part where Highmountain has 1% higher damage total due to versatility, and the fact that races have different starting stats, it's negligable at max level but it makes a difference at this level.
Tooltip
Increases magical damage dealt by 1%.
Spell facts
SchoolPhysical
Cast timeInstant
EffectApply Aura
RangeSelf Only
Taught byRacial - Nightborne (skill 1)
Spell ID255665
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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