Half elves are all part of the elf team. On VZ the only deity they could pick was Tunare, lol
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And why would elven tanks be underpowered? For the longest time, my live guild's MT was a wood elf warrior. Then I went xteam and most of our raid MTs were dark elf warriors, who have worse stats than wood elves.
Ogre hp/stun immunity is a decent bonus to playing the race, but not at all necessary.
EDIT: And VZ teams weren't very well balanced, SZ in all honesty did the team makeup much better. On VZ:
Elves lacked monk, shaman, necro, SK
Humans had all classes
Shorts lacked ranger, bard, SK, shaman, monk
Darks lacked bard, ranger, paladin, druid
SZ teams:
Evils lacked ranger, paladin, druid
Goods and Neuts both lacked SK, necro
I prefer VZ teams for nostalgic reasons, but the SZ teams would be better in actuality.