1) You don't need to practice everything to 75% as an orc. Especially abilities like the ones listed that you are going to be using constantly (automatic skills especially), or not often (kick, which I would skip entirely).

2) Orcs are stronger than half-elves, warrior or not. Once you get a character to level 20, you can see finer distinctions. And for a physical combat oriented class, every point of strength (and unit of size) matters- you'll hit harder and more often, it expands your weapon selection, and a large number of your skills will key off strength and size. This sort of thing is much more important than the difference in skill percentages.

3) Of course practicing as an orc is harder. They're big, strong, and healthy. They have a low XP penalty. You have to pay somewhere for all of that, and part of that payment comes in the brains department.

4) Orcs can roll very desirable statistics, and thus the gain command can end up dealing with the practice session difference also.

5) I might be wrong. If playing a half-elf warrior is the end-all-be-all of mid-rank destruction dealing, by all means feel free to play that character and demonstrate this. It's definitely not something you can write on a chart and prove.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com