If you make it to the end game then your race isn't relevant

Would you elaborate? It seems ogres and iksar get the hot racial for later game. Will I be able to find groups as a gnome or people pass you over?

Iksars get an ac advantage when they can finally wear velious plate, ogres get frontal stun immunity. Neither are game breaking and nobody is going to check your race. If anything they will see gnome and assume you are a twink.

End game armor has so many stats on it plus buffs taking you to the cap on many things. Plus for raid targets you just click a Midnight Mallet and sit your ass in the corner with an egg timer for how long is left on Defensive stance. Tho I think people use stopwatches on their fancy calculator watches now.

But leveling up you are probably going to want frontal stun immunity
even Slam is super useful all the times due to it being linked to Bash with a higher skillcap over kick
or even iksar ac/regen

But if you are dead set on gnome, consider going Brell deity so you can have access to that superfucking sweet dwarven cultural armor. as a gnome you wont be allowed in evil cities anyways and going brell shouldnt hurt you. even zek is cool because of that human cultural stuff

Brell items: http://wiki.project1999.com/Deity_Sp...#Brell_Serilis
Zek stuff: http://wiki.project1999.com/Deity_Sp...ued#Rallos_Zek

And I have to add Tinkering and making/recharging them is super expensive

Outside of the armor is there a benefit to any diety?

Not a whole lot.

Can occasionally help with faction, depending on the group. But that's about it.

Actually I dont Think u need a certain deity

http://wiki.project1999.com/Enchante...en_Breastplate

The deity ones have wis too but dont think that do anything for warriors?

Appreciate all the input. Think it's time to make this ankle biter a reality!

For a warrior? Not really.

All the buffs last for an hour outside of haste, which is 20 mins. At 5pp a cast, just looting gems pays for the recharges quick. +30 dex/str for 5pp an hour is worth it, even 40% haste at 5pp a cast is worth the 5pp.

Each piece sells for 2k, which is also cheap for a piece of armor you will always keep, unless you get a eyepatch of plunder. Which is still only 20% haste.