The Gnomes are the creative visionaries in the Warcraft universe devising cunning inventions mingled with their technological know-how. Like the Dwarves they share the city of Ironforge as the Gnome’s home city of Gnomeregan was destroyed during the Second War. The Gnomes refrained from taking part in the Second War as their own city was under attack from an unknown ‘ancient barbaric menace’ (Burning Legion). Their courage was however not rewarded and Gnomeregan fell and half the Gnome race was wiped out. The survivors sought refuce at the Dwarven city of Ironforge.

Their kinship with the Alliance stands today and they now live side by side with their Dwarvish friends and remain part of the Alliance. 

Though small in stature, the gnomes of Khaz Modan have used their great intellect to secure a place in history. Indeed, their subterranean kingdom, Gnomeregan, was once a marvel of steam-driven technology. Even so, due to a massive trogg invasion, the city was lost. Now its builders are vagabonds in the dwarven lands, aiding their allies as best they can.

• Each class available to this race will start with different attribute stats and proficiencies.
• Points are not awarded for you to allocate to the following stats, they increase as you level up and can be augmented with items worn and buffs on your character.
• There are no differences in attributes between the genders or between characters created on a PvE, PvP or RP server.

Strength - Increases your attack power with melee weapons

Agility - Increases your attack power with both melee and ranged weapons, and improves your chance to score a critical hit with all weapons. Increases your armor and your chance to dodge attacks.

Stamina - Increases health points.

Intellect - Increases mana points and your chance to score Critical Hit with spells. Increases the rate at which you improve weapon skills.

Spirit - Increases health and mana regeneration rates.

Melee Attack - Damage with melee weapons.

Ranged Attack - Damage with ranged weapons.

Damage - Weapon Damage.

Armor - Decreases the amount of damage you take from physical attacks. The amount of reduction is influenced by the level of your attacker. 

Gnome:	Mage	Rogue	Warlock	Warrior
Starting Attributes
Strength	15	16	15	18
Agility	23	26	23	23
Stamina	19	20	20	21
Intellect	27	24	26	24
Spirit	22	20	22	20
Armor	51	54	51	53
Melee Attack	1	1	1	1
Power	5	24	5	19
Damage	4 - 7	3 - 5	1 - 3	3 - 6
Ranged Attack	N/A	1	N/A	N/A
Power	N/A	33	N/A	N/A
Damage	N/A	5 - 8	N/A	N/A
Class Skills
Arms
Assassination
Combat
Demonology
Destruction
Fire
Frost
Weapon Skills
Daggers
Defence
One-handed Maces
Staves
Swords
Thrown
Unarmed
Wands
Armor Proficiencies
Cloth
Leather
Mail
Shield
Languages
Common
Gnomish
	Mage	Rogue	Warlock	Warrior
Note: All resistances start at zero apart from Arcane which starts at +10 Other weapon skills can be learnt from NPC Trainers

Patch History

The history of the changes made to the Gnome race during the beta and beyond are detailed below with the most recent at the top.

Beta Patch (7 November 2004)

• Escape Artist: Activate to break out of a Root or Snare effect
• Expansive Mind: Increase Intelligence
• Arcane Resistance: Increase Arcane Resistance
• Engineering Specialist: Increase skill bonus to Engineering