best raceFollow

There is no "best race."

Draneii have an extra heal; dwarves can cleanse all their poisons at once (and track treasure), and humans can remove inconvenient fears.

However, at the end of the day, it is you who's going to spend hours getting this toon to 80, so choose the race that isn't going to wind you up appearance-wise and get dumped even before Outland.

/sign

When all is said and done, the best Paladin race is the one that you can stand to look at the most. imo, this makes Humans the best race for a Paladin: I don't care for Dwarves (of either gender), male Draenei look too top heavy (WHY oh why did I pick a male Draenei for my Shaman?? ...), and the shoulderpads are way too small on a female Draenei. Plus, the human mount is a horse, so they naturally look the best on the Warhorse/Charger ;)

I also like Humans cause of Diplomacy. I hate grinding >.<

Edited, Mar 31st 2009 10:12pm by Maulgak

You forgot dwarves now get +5 expertise to maces.

And the human stealth detection racial isn't actually functional. I don't know if it's working or not, but it seems that the detection increase is soooooo small that in practice your chances to detect stealth are the same with other races.

Apply Aura: Mod Detect
Value: 5

This is the same on the human racial and on the engi goggles.

Warning: There's a bit of ranting included, and I hate rogues.

I tried to see if there was any difference in my detection range on stealthed mobs on my dwarf engi. So I equiped and unequiped the goggles multiple times, I always seemed to detect the mob at pretty much the same distance. If a difference exists it is probably about 0.5 yd radius, a boot speed enchant would increase your ability to detect stealthies more than this. I guess I'll have to do more serious testing but so far the difference was not perceptible.

Also, recently, I went to help a friend who was being constantly ganked by a level 45 rogue. My warrior is still level 73. The detection range WITH the goggles seemed to be less than 20 yards on a level 45 rogue. Now, 20 yards of detection range is probably very good detection range but that's at so many levels of difference that it's like having +145 mod detect. So I'm starting to assume that mod detect has been nerfed badly because the old perception skill gave +50 and was effective for a 20 or so yd raduis.

In AV I can stand inside the flag room of the horde towers and I can't detect a stealthed rogue inside it unless I get into closer than melee range of him.

In addition rogues get super plusses to their ability to stealth through talents, racials and enchants. They can stack +stealth bonuses to like +30 or more and get a 10 sec imp stealth period of +370 when using vanish, which totally overwhelms your +5 passive racial. I guess that stacked with engy goggles it can reach +10.

Granted, maybe it's just worth it for the fact that on rare occasions it seems to get bugged and I seem to get like 100 yd range of complete stealth immunity, which is glorious poetic justice and merciless rogue slaughtering each time it happens, but most of the time I'm suffering from lack of stealth counters.

Honestly, someone in blizz seems to be bent on buffing the already OP ability to stealth that rogues have, I imagine they may have thought that rogues should have the power of stealth even in arenas when the opponents know where the rogue is but that's just extreme, as if they weren't already strong enough without the stealth.

So, uhm yeh, my take on that +5 to stealth detection is that I'd try to have it, but sadly as of now stealth is so strong that nothing short of the boomkin walking aoe seems to be effective against it.