Shadowknight - Ogre vs Human

[greatdane]

FSI is very convenient for a shadowknight. No other racial is useful while tanking, and the ability to ignore most bashes is great QOL. It's also amazing for pulling with FD because you don't always have room to do it without letting the mobs reach you. Nice when fear-kiting as well because you're gonna eat a bash literally every time fear breaks, although a dedicated soloer would probably get more out of regen.

But the most underrated thing about ogres is that you get like 50 free stamina. Contrary to popular belief (and constant claims by dumb people), you don't just max out stamina as a smaller race. You would need pretty much full BIS Velious raid gear to cap the stat unbuffed, which is what you really want because a free buff slot is worth a lot.

Most players never even have the opportunity to think about getting the kind of gear that a hum/iks/DE/eru needs to max out their stamina. Even doing it buffed requires some pretty serious gear, and getting to 255 unbuffed is very nearly impossible for those races. There's like, what, maybe ten players on the server who have that kind of gear?

When someone asks what race to pick, it's generally safe to assume that they're not the kind of player who's going to be raiding hardcore full-time in the server's top guild. In that case, ogre is so vastly superior to the other races that it's kind of absurd. You're pretty much just getting +50 stamina for free, on top of the best SK racial. There's no contest.