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<blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 4254141" data-attributes="member: 29206">I'll try for half-elves.POINT 1: Half-elves have a lame stat bonus. Constitution and Charisma are only found together at all for Warlocks. Compare Dragonborn, who have Strength and Charisma, giving them the primary attribute plus another used attribute for Clerics, Paladins, and Warlords. (They also have both secondary attributes for Rogues but Rogues are set up so that this is not useful.)POINT 2: Half-Elf Warlocks don't get good use out of their Dilettante power. Right now, choosing an at-will from another class and getting it as a per-encounter power is a pretty bogus deal - due to a crucial lack of Charisma or Constitution-based at-will powers, Half-Elf Warlocks pretty much just get a bogus choice. (Sure, they could take Thunderwave or Scorching Burst to kill mooks, but at that point you'd almost always be better off just being a Dragonborn.)POINT 3: Hardly anyone gets good use out of their Dilettante power right now. While that's bound to get better when more books are out, the only one that leapt out as useful is taking the Cleric at-will Righteous Brand as a per-encounter power for fighter types, where it is probably even worth it.POINT 4: Half-Elves have no passive racial bonuses worth talking about. &quot;Good at diplomacy&quot; is pretty much all of it, whereas everyone else gets things like attack and damage bonuses, free military weapon proficiencies, and defense bonuses. Sure, they get the ability to pick racial feats from any of three pools, but most of those are pretty underwhelming, and you're paying feats at this point, so...POINT 5: Warlocks, the one class super-suited to Half-Elves right now, don't get Diplomacy as a class skill.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imban, post: 4254141, member: 29206"] I'll try for half-elves. POINT 1: Half-elves have a lame stat bonus. Constitution and Charisma are only found together at all for Warlocks. Compare Dragonborn, who have Strength and Charisma, giving them the primary attribute plus another used attribute for Clerics, Paladins, and Warlords. (They also have both secondary attributes for Rogues but Rogues are set up so that this is not useful.) POINT 2: Half-Elf Warlocks don't get good use out of their Dilettante power. Right now, choosing an at-will from another class and getting it as a per-encounter power is a pretty bogus deal - due to a crucial lack of Charisma or Constitution-based at-will powers, Half-Elf Warlocks pretty much just get a bogus choice. (Sure, they could take Thunderwave or Scorching Burst to kill mooks, but at that point you'd almost always be better off just being a Dragonborn.) POINT 3: Hardly [b]anyone[/b] gets good use out of their Dilettante power right now. While that's bound to get better when more books are out, the only one that leapt out as useful is taking the Cleric at-will Righteous Brand as a per-encounter power for fighter types, where it is probably even worth it. POINT 4: Half-Elves have no passive racial bonuses worth talking about. "Good at diplomacy" is pretty much all of it, whereas everyone else gets things like attack and damage bonuses, free military weapon proficiencies, and defense bonuses. Sure, they get the ability to pick racial feats from any of three pools, but most of those are pretty underwhelming, and you're paying feats at this point, so... POINT 5: Warlocks, the one class super-suited to Half-Elves right now, don't get Diplomacy as a class skill. [/QUOTE]

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