How is gnome the highest dps race for warriors?

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On retail there is absolutely no statistical evidence that the Horde outnumbers the Alliance 10:1 in game.

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realmpop shows it as 45-55.

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i think most of their dps racials are passive whereas horde are mostly active. meaning during a burst phase where a boss might take more damage an orc or troll can pop berserking whereas a human or gnome doesn’t have anything to pop but just the passive damage bonus at all times. so while the gnomes and human racial might be better in the long run, the active burst racials of the horde are better for shorter fights or fights with burst windows around the 2-3 minute CD.

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Did you not see Yoda lightsaber dueling in the Star Wars prequels?

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That cruise control easy mode life. Gnomes are stylin and profiling.

Now the mechagnome racials? O.o why blizzard so twisted

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Because they’re monsters.

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Racials, for the most part are in a pretty good place. Id trade them all for the all mighty Diplomacy though.

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Yoda is a goblin, not gnome.

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What about a Leper Gnome?

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Rich coming from a Goblin.

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Yeah, Racials aren’t really the problem the Alliance faces now.

The problem more stems from a shrinking playerbase AND Blizzard leaving racials unchecked for too long making it too hard for super high end Alliance guilds to recruit, so they just go Horde.

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Rich? Goblin?

You have my attention.

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Set myself up for that one. Still though, i think i got a few inches on ya.

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You don’t get to add the height you reached when getting punted.

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World of Simcraft, my favorite game.

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Because a few years ago racials were unbalanced enough to swing the end game population dramatically horde. As a result, alliance endgame population has been slowly dying ever since.

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As the guy said above me. This happened in Mist of Pandaria.

Specifically during Throne of Thunder. You see, most these world first guilds like Method, use to be Alliance. Horde were laughably outclassed in PvE for awhile.

Method went Horde for the troll beastslaying racial that gave 5% damage to beast, since some of the DPS checks of ToT were beast bosses. When this was nerfed, they simply never came back.

This caused a slow and steady migration of guilds wanting to copy Method and other world first guilds success, that slowly drained The Alliance PvE community, only leaving behind casual players.