04-25-2005, 12:04 PM
Jarulf,Apr 25 2005, 01:32 AM Wrote:I would probably still prefer a Night Elf since they look so better, and have a much more fun starting area.[right][snapback]75021[/snapback][/right]
None of the racial traits are game-breaking at all. If you're a min/maxer type of gamer and want to have the "uber-est" setup possible, though, you'd hate to play a character to level 60 and find that you would have been just-that-much-more-effective if you had rolled a different race to start out. However, it's really not that big of a deal.
Picking your race should come down to what they look like - pick something that's appealing to you. Psychological discussions aside, I always find myself preferring female characters over male - I like their looks better - say what you will. However, selecting a race simply because of its starting area is a BAD idea.
I powerlevel like mad. It took me about 251 hours /played to get my first character, a Priest, to 60 (that's 10 days, 11 hours). Of those 251 hours, about 5 to 6 were spent in Teldrassil, the Night Elf starting area, to get to level 11-12. When you look at those numbers, you realize that picking any character for its starting area is a poor choice, because you'll blow through it relatively quickly anyway. If you REALLY like the Night Elf starting area, you can always roll another class and have them take the long hike up there. I have seen Gnomes in Teldrassil before. :) Just make sure it's a class that has trainers there (i.e. taking a Warlock to Teldrassil = bad).
-Bolty
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