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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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It's a lot deeper than that - although I do admit halflings have greatly diminished in power.
They really get a lot of routes to good equipment throughout the server (bull crusher is astounding on day 1, it's never hard to find dwarf cultural, etc), faction work isn't terribly easy but hide and sneak both help and have further uses pre infinite invis clicks, they are generally pretty well received by other players (people seem to be much kinder to halflings than other races - but iksars do tend to stick together and help each other a lot. They can be RZ which helps in Velious (iksar are stuck with CT).
Honestly, I think the fact that players are more amiable and accommodating to halfling avatars than ogres is a good enough reason halfling is better than ogre. Warriors need friends to accomplish their goals and endearing halflings are just better for that.
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Those are indeed good points. I am not trying to say people should only play Ogres/Trolls/Iksars because of their superior racials.
I just want people to know what the min/max options are from a statistical perspective, because some people care about that stuff. Ogre/Troll Warriors have the statistical advantage based on their racials. Ogres are generally better at 60, and Trolls are generally better when leveling. The choice mostly comes down to when you want your racial to be most effective: At the endgame, or during leveling.
If you want to make a character for reasons other than statistics, that is completely fine. Knowledge is power, and people should know what is better/worse. Then you can make your decision based on all the facts.
Rolling a halfling because you think it is better socially, or want to exclusively raid in VP are both valid reasons to roll a halfling. But that doesn't make them statistically superior generally speaking, they are just better for your specific case.
I am not sure why people get so offended at the statistics (not saying you are specifically). Luckily Everquest is a game where you can still do all the content a specific class could do with the statistically worst race choice.