Rogue Race vs gear
 

So I went to create my rogue today and was looking at starting stats for them all. Knowing Velious is quite a bit away I have to prioritize. Personally I love halflings <3, but with them I cant wear gear such as a Treeweave or hero bracer and that +20 easy str gone. And I see in the gear post on the wiki that these are 2 pieces that are still very good with Kunark gear. I know Leveling would be faster as a Halfling but would the loss in gear make it more worthwhile to be a wood elf or even a barb?

Dwaaarf that extra mr for dragenz!

halfling for exp bonus and small size.

You would say that :D. Prefer Barb myself. High innate str leads to being able to wear tons more resist/hp gear. If your not found of the tallness i'd go Dwarf for same reasons.

Barbarians for boulderquest

If you love halflings, you should play one. Don't get super far on a char you'd regret looking at later.

From what I've heard, race won't matter as much when Velious comes out because of all the additional high STR items available. I suspect a lot of those items also have resists to go with the STR stats.

I made a wood elf rogue and I'm still glad I did. I'd hate to look at a Barb or Dwarf all day.

I look at a high elf all day :D...wait a minute i play first person. i dont look at anything all day :)

barbarian if you aren't retarded