You have convinced me, I will roll human mage. If someone is interested, long ago I found a comparison between gnome and human mage regarding dps differences. TLDR: gnome has slightly more dps and human goes oom a bit earlier.
stats in the exact same gear (t2), self buffed, no talents.
In that gear you are losing 27int, 0.46% crit.
(obviously lesser gear with less int - you lose less, higher gear - you lose more) (apart from 5%, gnomes also have higher base int). in a raid you also have all kind of buffs, kings, elixirs, world buffs etc. so it would be even more, more int = more difference.
by theorycraft addon an average frostbolt (including crit) will hit for 849 for gnome, 847 for human.
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with a standard frost/arcane build (without clearcasting so it wouldnt affect testing) with mage armor.
gnome mage did 45 frostbolt casts before going full oom
human mage did 43 frostbolt casts before going full oom
gnome - 7248 max mana
human - 6843 max mana
dps difference in that given example was
378.9 dps - gnome
376.3 dps - human
though obviously it depends on crits/resists procs. gnome is definitely critted more than average there, though it got 1 more resist, so it quite equaled, though it can vary.
but on average it should be few points of dps difference to gnome ofc(cos it got +0.4% crit). by theorycraft addon, gnome expected to do 373 dps, human 371. pure frostbolt spam without anything.
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so summing up its a few point of a dps differences (cos of a few extra crit), plus human goes oom couple of casts faster than gnome, cos gnome got extra mana.
You would want to roll gnome mage if you are going to PvP.
Escape artist is just way more powerful than perception, especially when you are a mage since Arcane Explosion (rank 1) pretty much replaces it.
As a gnome you also have the added benfit of being a lot smaller than human. As a gnome you can for example fit into the fence of Dun Baldar ram ranch building in Alterac Valley, where no other races can fit. Great for PvP.
Another little thing to add is that you won't face any gnome mages in PvP, except for duels :D
Roll human if you are going to do alot of rep grinds, otherwise gnome is better for everything. Humans get 10% Diplomacy and Gnomes get Escape Artist, , +Int and +Engineering.
You would want to roll gnome mage if you are going to PvP.
Escape artist is just way more powerful than perception, especially when you are a mage since Arcane Explosion (rank 1) pretty much replaces it.
As a gnome you also have the added benfit of being a lot smaller than human. As a gnome you can for example fit into the fence of Dun Baldar ram ranch building in Alterac Valley, where no other races can fit. Great for PvP.
what do you mean with arcane explosion replaces escape artist? Does this have something to do with free casting (or whatever it is called in English)?
Btw: They may use the new gnome models for Classic which are bigger than the old gnomes. I couldn't find a reliable source though.
He meant arcane explosion replaces perception. Spamming a low rank (for Mana purposes) of AE will pop rogues out of stealth.
Magezi He means that Arcane Explosion basically replaces Perception because damage breaks stealth and Arcane Explosion has a pretty big range and it's spammable
Btw: They may use the new gnome models for Classic which are bigger than the old gnomes. I couldn't find a reliable source though.
Blizzard is using the original character models. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time finding it, but there was a blue post talking about this that I can't find. They considered the new character models but thought it would look weird with the rest of the low rest art assets, so it's going to be the original models only.
Which kind of sucks because I like the new ones, but Blizzard's already settled this.
Only problem playing a Gnome is you will get punted all the time. Oh the memories.
- small (I still don't know if Classic uses old or new height models and running animation)
I tried to jump to the npc located in Arathi Highlands as a gnome, the one on the broken bridge, couldn't make the jump, tried like five times.
Don't roll Gnome.
Gnomes are the best looking classes in WoW, period. I made an account just to say this.