I Want to love gnomes, but the problems of being a small race in eq are significant. I always wear a taller illusion on my enchanter. Whats fun is being an illusion of another race, then eating the appropriate cannibal treat: Sosando takes a bite of blackened teir'dal or hot-n-spicy toelings
For me it's always been kind of a toss-up between iksars and frogloks. The lizards always come first, but then there are froggies for everything the lizards can't be. The froglok armor and animations have always been my favorites, especially since the lizards lost their incredible swimming animation with the Luclin model update.
Froglok animations are bis. You ever see a froglok roundkick? It's beautiful. Gnome if frog's aren't available.
More of an "anything but" I just don't run a lot of Trolls or High Elves, Froglok. I seldom run Wood Elves just because people used to always start female Wood Elf Bards for prurient purposes for begging and being invited to groups. I've got something nice to say about all the others. There are some reservations. All if not most of these can be circumvented. For instance, Gnomes and Halflings have trouble with stairs/steps, Ogres with squeezing in tight places. Easy way around this is just buy an illusion from Market Place for something bigger or smaller as the case may be. Origin is mixed blessing for race too. I mean start a Gnome or Erudin SK and enjoy the run from Origin to any place you would rather be. Not a big fan of the Dark Elf Origin either. It works in favor of some classes with a Qeynos start and Gate. You can travel back and forth across the world every eight minutes or get to a hub.
I am married to my lizards. I jumped immediately on an Iksar SK when i saw how cool looking they were and how hard the game said they were (back when difficulty ratings were listed)
Ever since my very first character, it's always been Wood Elves Close 2nd is Dark Elves. Then Froglok.
