How good is Tinkering? Enough to go Gnome for Necro?

[Cen]

Im a fan of Dark Elves for looks but the truth is, for a necro in particular, before Iksar, Gnome is probably best. You get the wallvision while sitting, you get the super upgrade to hide in feign death, better faction across the board, in addition to Tinkering. Stats wise, gnomes dump wisdom for other stats, giving you a stronger stat aggregate over Dark Elf too.

Dark Elves lose all their advantages as Necros, so a Gnome is a better character all around.

The *only* thing a Dark Elf can do over a Gnome is use hide as an easier charm break for charm undead, which is extremely niche and has a low success rate.