Poll: Battle of the Expansion RacesFollow

Iksar = Best. Best mood, best lore, best whatever. Even the old models for them were cool.

SOE retcon'd the lore for the Vah Shir which always struck me as lame. The frogloks aren't frogloks but rather "Guktans" (who, ironically, look more like a walking frog than their less advanced froglok cousins who can at least stand up straight) and Drakkins are just dumb.

Also, the Iksar were the closest SOE came to making a mob (lizard men) into a player race. Vah Shir are barely "Kerran" and I mentioned the frogloks.

Well, it appears I'm one of the minority... I like the Drakkin because they have a lot of cool background lore (like the Iksar others mentioned), a cool body-art look, and a breath weapon like their forebears...

I picked Vah Shir i have always liked the looks of them and the fact that they are a very neutral race that anyone can come see is a plus. On top of that i guess im biased because of the content that came with them awesome newbie zones and PC is still one of the only zones still used after all this time.

I've played them all. No doubt the Dracken are the best. The breath weapon and detailed heritage make them a blast to play. (Not to mention they all look like there're related to David Bowie) :) There're easy to solo with too!

The frogloks were a scourge on the face of EQ. The Vah Shir were forgettable at best. I've no opinion on the Draken, cause they were after my time. So definitely the Iksar.

I was always dissappointed that they didn't make orcs a playable race.

I loved the iksar.

Unbelievable lore, amazing looks and a well-thought quest system.

I voted Froglok because they were the most original. Vah Shir = cat people, Iksar = lizard people, Drakkin = people (with weird tattoos). Froglok are still frogs, they jump like frogs, etc. Everything else is just a mutant human. I would like to see a playable insectoid race, or like Kakar said, another playable evil race like orcs or gnolls.

Iksar. Iksar have some of the most amazing lore in this game. Cabilis is one of the coolest starting cities and FoB is one of the nicest newbie zones. I love Iksar.

Vah Shir are an extremely distant second. They have decent lore and a beautiful city (plus I love Luclin). But they look kind of stupid. And someone still needs to explain to me how some fat paw cat can be a bard.

I don't really care either way about Frogloks. They look ok I guess, if you dig playing subhuman things.

Drakkins. Honestly I really liked them in the beginning. Maybe it was just cuz it was new. But not anymore. They look like lame cavemen when nekkid and their animations are awful. Plus for some reason people feel the need to include the letters "drak" somewhere in their stupid Drakkin's name. It would have taken 3 seconds of thought to realize how dumb and unoriginal that would be.

Edited, Apr 15th 2007 2:07am by BrknLadr

Drakkin have it hands down in my opinion. Although i think that the iksar are a close second. The drakkin character models were done extremely well and exceeded all of my expectations. Their animations are more fluid and "lifelike" (if that's even the appropriate word for it) than any other race on norrath. The lore behind the drakkin is solid and fairly original, yet in keeping with previous storylines in the game. And Crescent Reach is a well thought out, sprawling city.

The only thing is i wish SoE would implement faction back into the game. Back when you had to faction up to simply enter a city was when i had the most fun. Carefully weighing each kill to ensure you didn't harm your faction with a city you were trying to gain the favor of. It brought a certain feeling into the game instead of it being the same old hack and slash routine.

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ok, everyone keeps saying Drakkin due to breath wep....that wep sorta sucks high end because it can wipe a group or raid np, it can shoot through the wall aggroing a bunch of mobs....

I voted Iksar.

As other have mentioned, the Iksar were inroduced into the game with tons of lore. The entire expansion dealt with the lore of the Iksar. Nearly every single zone of Kunark has something to with the Iksar. The classes that were open to the Iksar play well into the lore.

The Drakkin would be a close second. I think SOE learned something from the cats and frogs with developing a new race to fit the expansion. It also helped that they created an expanion in which you could level a Drakkin without ever leaving, much like the Iksar.

The Vah Shir just seemd to be lacking. The Luclin expansion seemed to forget about the Vah Shir once you left the starting city and the newbie grounds. Once outside, you were just another toon running around fighting high AC/high HP mobs. The Vah Shir were also over shadowed a little by the introduction of the beastlord class at the same time.

The Guktans, IMHO, were just a bone tossed to the players as a novelty. The back story about the invasion of Grobb was great, but once they were moved to the Rathe Mountains, all of the built up story was flushed down the toilet. Personally, I thought they should have made a zone line in Upper and Lower Guk that led to the new expansion (as well as the connection in Stoneburnt). This connection would have led to the new Guktan city. It also hurt that the Guktan were released with an expansion, yet they had nothing to do with the expansion.

Iksar was good, but I loved Vah Shir perfect starting area, got you used to trade skills and armor and shizzz.

Well, when you read my singnature you will see where my vote went to. I have played them since I got my "new" account. Only other toon i've played to high end was a 65 high elf clr, which me and step bro shared account.

Although my secound choice would be iksar, with everything said above, I also love going into the kunark area and seeign the great statues of Iksars and the ruined kingdom stuff.

Third goes to Van Shir--or how ever you spell it--They are jsut better than the drakkins too me.

There is no fourth choice. I am refusing to belivie the Drakkins a race. I was hyped up for them to come out until i saw the graphics for them, I was highly disappointed, I was expecting like an Iksar with small wings and a bigger tail. Also i was expecting a more dragon like face.

I mean come on SOE, Iksars are more Dragon like then Drakkins.