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Hyperspacerebel
Looking at pure stats, Draenei take the cake with their 1% hit.
As far as utility goes, I'd go human.
Blood elf - 20
Draenei - 21
Dwarf - 25
Human - 22
That's the base stam for all the races. So at most you'd see a difference of 5 stam.
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Quest
HUMAN FEMALE > ALL
Although the spacegoat chicks dont have too bad animations. But nothing beats the flying uppercut HoJ
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475735
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jefflovealex
I'd say blood elf...Wait don't hit me.
Bloodelves have Arcane torrent, which in odd occasions like when some idiot deathknight deathgrips the boss in a raid. You can instantly gain enough mana to shoot an avengers shield...And its a good little aoe.
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Quest
Your sig bunny looks like its father was a bunny and its mother was an owl.
Whooosqueek
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OscarDivine
I would strongly suggest Humans for several reasons.
Aside from the expertise and
EMFH
ability, if are still farming reps,
Diplomacy
is absolutely phenomenal.
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Post by
pezz
Remember with stoneform you already have Cleanse which you can easily sub into your rotation and doesn't cost much mana. Not saying I don't realize how awesome 10% armor can be for tanks, but at the very least realize a dwarf paladin gets less out of that ability because of class skills. I really loved AT for casters when I had my old EU paladin. I'd say human just for diplomacy though.
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OscarDivine
just be careful of the men who stare at space goats.
i lol'd!
Post by
Quest
Seriously pick for the looks, because anything you do based on racial is
Gonna get nerfed (tm)
Isnt a Shoryuken
Post by
hashmel
human = sword/mace exp (next to useless for a prot pally) and a racial trinket (also near useless in pve)
draenei = instant mana free self heal and 1% hit that you could have just by standing next to anothe draenei while being another race
dwarf = mace exp (once again next to useless) and STONEFORM
blood elf = 2% magic avoidance, arcane torrent (although mana shouldn't be an issue and you shouldn't be responsible for silences as the tank), and being overly flamboyant
coming soon
tauren = you get to take up half the screen, warstomp (near useless in pve), 5% BASE health (about 400 extra health woop dee doo), and if ur a fanboy you get to fight over the name Holycow
they need to make a pig race able to be pallies so holy pallies everywhere can fight over Baconoflight.
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pezz
You probably shouldn't be in charge of silences, but a free AoE one on cooldown (but off the GCD)? Yes please. As a rule of thumb, never ever trust your DPS, because they WILL fail.
As for Tauren: 1. Forcing all the mobs around you to eat another two seconds of consecration before they run everywhere or buying your healer another couple seconds to get a heal off is more useful than you think and 2. The racials are getting a revamp at the same time Tauren Paladins will be available.
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blademeld
Blood elf - 20
Draenei - 21
Dwarf - 25
Human - 22
That's the base stam for all the races. So at most you'd see a difference of 5 stam.
Racial Attribute Bonuses: These bonuses have been recalibrated to even out the amount of starting health on the various races. All races start with a standardized level of stamina, except for orcs, dwarves, and tauren who now start with 1 extra point of stamina. For each class, bonuses and penalties to all attributes have been adjusted so that each race has an equal attribute total.
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frmorrison
human = sword/mace exp (next to useless for a prot pally) and a racial trinket (also near useless in pve)
Expertise is still useful, it reduces parry haste and Prot has 3 parriable attacks (auto, HotR, and SoV's DoT application/refresh attack). The expertise cap is 57, so getting 3 for free is pretty nice.
The free PvP trinket is nice on one encounter in ToC and Onynxia if you don't have Tremor totem or Fear ward.
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