Leave it to EQ players to fight like alleycats over something that is so minor that it doesn't affect overall capability to any significant degree. A barbarian isn't the top solo artist because barbarians are better but because the racials are insignificant enough that the difference between "best" and "worst" is not enough to alter final capability.
I waffle between favoring trolls and ogres as "best" but ultimately the player should pick the one he likes the graphic of. Players overthink stats and racial perks in this game to a maddening degree. In EQ, muchmoreso than in a lot of other MMOG's, player determination, knowledge, and skill will matter for far more. Pciking the "best" of something at creation matters primarily to folks who need to feel like they picked the best and for whom the choice will gnaw at them if they feel like they didn't. Otherwise, in actual practice they're all going to do the same content anyway.
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