tho its a great shame, you cant trade goblin engineering stuff to gnomish engineers and vice versa. ive been a gnomish engineer for ages now and tho it seems to cost me a bomb at AH for comps, its sooooo much fun. id recommend it to anyone who doesnt mind having the gadgets backfire around 1 in 10 uses (teleported in mid air, shrink ur own party, death ray reflected back etc) its fun but a little unreliable. IMO goblin engineers just make bigger, better bombs and im happy enough with the regular ones. if u dont mind being poor as a church mouse and u want to have a lot of laughs, go for gnome.