Damnit.

[RDawg816]

You can easily max your stats with gear and buffs. Whether it's for racial bonuses (sneak, slam, etc.) or aesthetics, play what you want.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by RDawg816 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can easily max your stats with gear and buffs

It's not at all easy to cap stats as smaller races unless you have access to North Temple Veeshan gear, which most players don't. Thing is, you don't necessarily *have* to max out your stats to do your job well, either. If your elf Warrior buffs to 225 stamina instead of 255, you'll still be within 5% of the maximum life of a capped Ogre Warrior in equivalent gear and be able to tank all the usual stuff low to middle tier guilds raid without any fuss, anyway (kael arena, kunark stuff, ToV East, etc).

An elf Warrior with 75 base strength and no twink gear would be pretty painful to play. I dislike playing any plate-using melee unless I have a minimum 100 starting strength or (now that Velious is out) a lot of +strength gear. The original poster might not want to shelve his elf Warrior though: unless someone plans to power-level him, he can probably acquire sufficient money to buy some +strength gear more quickly than he can level a Dwarf to the 30's to replace his current character.

If you're determined to make a Dwarf, both Dexterity and Stamina-based builds work out okay in the long run.

Danth