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if you care about looks, human. if you're after what's best. gnome. escape artist is the best defence we have against the biggest killer of warlocks, slowing and snare effects. the 5% increase int is also far more beneficial than anything humans get.
perception is only useful IF you know there's a stealthed unit near by and IF that stealthed player is to idiotic to wait for the buff to go. diplomacy saves you about 2 hours of rep grinding per rep group, but is simply crap.
gnome all the way
Haven't played my lock in a while, since my lock my new main has become UD mage, and I also play my UD rogue and resto druid.
Perception is huge in arena, it's 20 seconds, if you ride around you can see people through pillars etc, pop it before a match starts while mounted and you WILL see the stealthed rogue, especially with felhunter out. I've been playing rogue/lock for a while, and I dont know why but the game allows him to ride around with his felhunter out. So I stealth and prevanish + sprint and stay relatively close to him for paranoia buff even though he's mounted and has it o.O
Paranoia is big, perception is even bigger. A good rogue will prevanish just to avoid perception but that still forces him to blow 1/2 vanishes, and he'd have to premed to get his 2nd and now only vanish back for when its really needed.
Druids will stand no chance against perception, their stealth is already sh*t, and PVP druids tend to take 10% armor over +stealth even though they're screwed if they get caught in stealth.
Starting a game aggressively riding around with perception up is huge. My locks a gnome, escape artist is nice, but perception is much bigger for arena then escape artist.
If you want to say "only bad rogues get caught with perception its so easy just stay miles away" go watch nerf sap 10-> http://files.filefront.com/Nerf+Sap+10+Commentary/;9803136;/fileinfo.html
For a while they were the #2 3v3 team on bloodlust (best US battlegroup) catching rogues routinely in stealth, druids too, these are all gladiator teams they are facing. They are consistently getting openers on stealthies because of
perception. Their team makeup was also retarded (rogue, warlock, rogue) but they got that high because of perception.
Edited, Jun 3rd 2008 6:38pm by mikelolol