So this came up in another thread, but I don’t think it was ever answered.
I vaguely recall Gnomes having their size increased by like 10-12% in a patch, maybe Wrath or Cataclysm?
Does anyone remember this, did it exist, or am I crazy – and will they be smaller in Classic?
We will be the size we were in Vanilla WoW.
So was there a patch that made them slightly bigger?
At a glance, Legion.
Hmm… I could’ve sworn it was earlier than that, but definitely after TBC.
I was thinking it happened before the new race models.
I am excited to be even smaller again. Just makes us that much more freaks!
#Gnome Changes
Don’t quote me on this, but I believe gnomes were enlarged about 10% before Vanilla was released, which had the side effect of scaling up their mounts (which is why they have the largest mounts in the game). Blizzard later realised and chose to keep it that way.
could have been a beta to live vanilla thing. I always noticed Gnome mounts were bigger than everyone else’s
Sure we got shrunked and not you and the others who got enlarged, hmmm?
Anyways, here you go;
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Height
WHAT? They grew 5 inches in Legion? I’m so glad I don’t play retail. Worst change ever.
Yes there was, Blizzard made us drink the Ent-draughts to entice new players to pick Gnome. A disgraceful change that didn’t attract new gnomes and left the rest of us slightly larger 
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As I recall they made them bigger because they were hard to see for healing or PvP.
That’s kinda part of the charm, though, I think.
Actually it’s b/c Gnome was the least played race in the game. And they thought it would attract new players by making them larger. They were wrong.
Well, I know they took away the ability to become near microscopic with a careful combination of world enlargers and noggenfoggers and the like.
/FUN DETECTED
/REMOVE FUN!
I would love to have been at that Dev meeting.
“Why aren’t people playing gnomes, and how do we increase their popularity?”
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“Make them marginally taller?”
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Mother of God you’re a genius!!!
We’ll be so smol puddles will dismount us.
Ya’ll ever smelt wet Gnome?
It’s a harsh scent.
Did they nerf this in Vanilla?
Smaller Gnomes just makes it easier to dropkick them across the battlefield. A lighter weight Gnome would have less surface drag and a lower weight coefficient, this would yeild a greater gain in distance traveled.
Actually not sure when they nerfed it. There were other effects back then which got nerfed as well. Enlarge effects as well, like the troll witch-doctor who could enlarge you as one of the effects used to stack with enlarge effects for example.
http://i.imgur.com/kGy4WDm.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/Zrw92