Gnome OR Human Mages?Follow

Gnomes are small, and can hide in a bush rather easy. 5% int racial doesnt really make them the be all of mages.

Humans, depending on the model you choose, can look awesome as mages. 10% more rep gains only makes reputation grinds a bit more faster than any other race, again not game breaking.

Its a matter of which one do you want to stare at for months on end.

Edit-- Certain robes, look damn ugly on female gnomes. While they look better on female humans.

Edited, Mar 16th 2007 2:19pm by SillyGnomeMage

Humans are better in my opinion. With all the rep grinding at level 70, the 10% bonus is really going to add up to time saved.

In PvP, it's a toss up between Escape Artist and Perception. Rogues are good cloth-killers so Perception is good. Of course, good rogues know when you pop it so they just wait it out :P

Escape Artist is a great racial for PvP; gives you an extra way to break out of roots. An immobile mage often equals a dead mage.

Personally, I just can't get over playing a female character (being a guy myself) it's just too weird for me... I'm weird, I know. But in terms of aesthetics, female human > male human and female gnomes are just so cute :D

Male gnomes scare me...

Gnome mage here, why? 5% more int. i'll take that over rep anyday

5% extra intellect, at level 70 with 400 intellect (decent number), would net your Gnome an extra 20 intellect which would give him 300 extra mana.

300 mana at level 70 is peanuts.

Alright thanks for all your help, but I ended up rolling a priest instead. :P

Isn't that also more spell crit though? I know it wouldn't be a LOT of spell crit, but 1% maybe?

If you spec deep arcane you also would get more spell damage too, not much, but more than if you were human. I still like the rep increase. I can deal with missing 300 mana and 4 spell damage (or what ever the numbers are). rep grinding sucks.

Uh... hmmm, my lock is human and I love being able to see rogues in BGs. Also, half the game at 70 is rep gain....

Despite the fact that I'm leveling up my alliance characters now to play with my wife's guild (OMG, my wife will be my GM... so same as always at home... lol), I maintain that gnomes are only good for punting...

/shakes head
/apologize to gnomes I know... like my wife's gnome mage...
/punt

zomg! I'm gonna get demoted in the guild now for sure!

Being exalted in 1 faction maybe... what about being exalted in all of them? It is still a lot of work to get exalted with them all and being human removes a percentage of that.

Gratz to you if your human is exalted in everything. Wait for WotLK and you get to grind some more factions out...

LMAO,
Hide in bushes? Yeah, youre a little gnome mage with big red letters floating above your head throwing fireballs the size of meteors!