Gnomes get 6 pracs/level with the 25 wisdom which is an improvement over the 5/level you get with the 24 (at least last time I checked.) What do you think about letting elves who have a 25 int practice a skill to 80% with a single practice so that there is actually a point to it being 25 instead of 24?

High intelligence helps your character against fiends, increases your learning rate and your mana per level, and as a warrior gives you an incentive to get Striking (see recent logs). From a roleplay perspective, it allows you to use complete sentences with polysyllabic words, allowing your character to legitimately publish some smooooove poetry to win the hearts of those sexy ladies with the pointed ears.

The benefit to practicing you mentioned is easily circumvented if you are patient, and so I see your suggestion as a non-proposal.

The questions I would ask are, "Immortal-coder-pk gods, do you train your intelligence to 25 when you play an elf?" and "What is your reasoning?"

I know everything that intelligence does, and all those things are useful. But the difference between 24 and 25 for those things? Basically none. There is no real practical use for having the intelligence actually go up to 25.

Those who code and pk can see the numbers and make a valid determination if it is worth the train. They (hopefully) also play the race and see firsthand if those numbers have practical value or are merely time-sink issues.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

Taking a seven-path elf invoker from creation to caballed, heroed, having done some exploration and seen some PK action, and with all spells in around 100 hours is definitely possible. I don't think it so much is with a human or arial.

the 2 counter points you used as not being possible only went to 23 int. There is a jump in usefulness between 23 and 24. It just seems like that same jump is not there between 24 and 25 for intelligence as it seems to be for other stats.

>I know everything that intelligence does, and all those
>things are useful. But the difference between 24 and 25 for
>those things? Basically none.

I would say this is incorrect. It's worth training.

That being said, is that extra point of int that an elf has on a dark-elf more important than the extra point of dex that the dark-elf has on any class with dodge or evade? I'd say no, but they have other racial perks.