Someone give me genuine criticism on Gnomes as a race

Community General Discussion
61

Jealousy and envy just oozed out of your post. Focus on getting rid of the fleas, leave being awesome to us Gnomes.

62

:b:IG :b:RAIN :b:OIS

Also the way they look like they’re about to take off and fly whenever they run, terrifying.

1 Like
63

Let’s just say some people on RP realms use their physical structure to imply them to be something that they are absolutely not IN. ANY. WAY. So disgusting. HORRENDOUS.

You won’t believe the things i have seen. My soul is forever scarred, and nothing or no one will ever be able to heal it. Gnomes are wrong. Make them go away. Please…:sob:
If you don’t know what i’m talking about, GOOD. Save yourself, don’t ever try to figure it out. Seriously. This race has enabled the worst kind of RPers, and needs to be exterminated by a well placed nuclear strike.

64

Gnomes have been subject to neglection hence have made attention seeking threads like these to still prove that they’re actually somewhat relevant if not for comedic relief at the expense of their ownselves.

65

I luv Chromie :smirk:
Like a sister ofc, she looks beautiful and smart.

66

Thing with Gnomes, is that people get these misunderstandings about them, lets go with them…

  1. Gnomes do not look like Human Children, and anyone trying to play them as one will be first up against the wall. There is a reason they have a head that size, with nose, ears and eyes that size…They live Underground Naturally! Things that do that, usually either have oversized organs to absorb the most light/sound/smell or they go full on atrophied and go blind and ditch eyes altogether. They also have a thumb and three fingers on each hand, not four. Stop pretending they are human children, that is just -disgusting-.

  2. You Can’t punt them. You can try, you will break your foot, ankle, and your tibia and fibia, You’ll destroy your leg in trying to do so. The Gnome won’t move, you will be crawling to the nearest healer, whining in pain, and hoping the Gnome doesn’t start stabbing you up. They’re four feet tall, with a stocky body mass, Ahh, but what about Tauren and Draenei, surely they have the strength to?
    Maybe, maybe they do. Their legs also bend in the wrong way to make Punting a Gnome possible without adding a broken kneecap to that already impressive list of fractured or shattered bones trying to punt a Gnome would earn you.

  3. The Voices are annoying, and silly. They are barrel chested, with a low diaphragm, they are not going to sound Cooky, Quirky and Squeaky, their voice would actually be like a cross between the Dwarven and Worgen one, much more gravelly.

  4. They’re Comedy…

So you’re people dug too deep, and suddenly ravening horrors start spilling out from underground chasms, things of speed, strength, four times your body mass, nightmares of fangs and talons. You desperately fight a rearguard action, laying down suppressive fire even as the screams and howls come from all around you, one by one you get picked off, the lowlight goggles letting you see the spray of blood, Surely, Someone has a plan. They Do.

You can hear the vast Air pumps of Gnomeregan swing into operation as Sicco Thermaplugg’s great idea to take out these Troggs, swings into place…

Except, whether deliberate betrayal, or colossal error of judgement, as the gas issues forth and even through your gasmask filters you cough, you know something has gone wrong…You see the occasional flitting form of a Trogg, temporarily blinded by the gas, as they get to yet another Gnome and drag them down, and it becomes horribly apparent, as the Troggs wait for the gas to clear, that something, two things, have gone horribly wrong…

The Gas isn’t killing the Troggs, but drifting down from the Upper levels you can hear the screams, it sounds like a massacre! You have family up there, Friends up there, The Chain of Command is meant to be up there…

After more gruelling hours of playing a horrible game of hide and seek with the Troggs in the thick gas clouds, something terrible happens…

The Screaming stops. And you don’t know. Does that mean…that the crisis is over? Or…

Does that mean there is no one left to scream?

Onwards and upwards you fight, still laying down fire at the Pursuing Troggs, and then even more terrible than that silence, you hear from the levels above you, that you will have to fight your way through, the dull “CRUMP” as untended generator after generator explodes, scattering its own poison into the air. You fight your way back up through the higher levels, pursued by Troggs, the air poisonous with the Gas and the Radiation from failed reactors, and then…

The Crazies. Your friends, family, their skin green and glistening and rushing to kill you and the other survivors! you cannot reason with them, you can only Kill! But you are also chased by the Troggs! The Dread Mathematics of Loss kick in, and you have to shoot your way through lovers, friends, family, neighbours, all the while hearing the screams of those Gnomes grabbed and dragged away by Leper Gnomes or Troggs, their screams fading in the dark… A Blast door is found, but the horror is complete, many of those who survived this far are looking jaundiced and ill, hair is falling out in clumps, and teeth are loose.

They took too high a dose of radiation… However you are so close to the surface now, perhaps if you can get them into fresh air, they can rally enough for you to try to cure them, Then the whir of machinery from beyond the blast door, and massive dents start appearing in it…Surely the Leper Gnomes can’t still use the Cities security automatons, at the same time, through the air ducts, the howls of ravening Troggs thunder louder and louder, you have to run, You all have to run, but try as you might, as the Troggs thunder down an air shaft, and the SpiderTank smashes open the doors and Leper Gnomes charge through, guns firing, you can’t save everyone, and their screams and pleas not to leave them behind leave a scar on your soul that will never heal.

85% of Gnomes died in those days of darkness and death.

Yeaaaah…Sounds like a Comedy Race to me…

5 Likes
67

can you start a lore blog or YouTube podcast, man?
asking for a friend :slight_smile:

68

I used to eat them.

2 Likes
69

I am so happy I read this when I was sitting with my morning coffee and not my evening tea… That is how a horror movie start :fearful:

1 Like
70

At least you can’t make racial jokes about me. Moo.

71

No, every Gnome I have met bullies RPERs making them alphas

1 Like
72

Just imagine getting so devoted to a race that exists only as comic relief.

73

No class that is iconic to their race.

Yes give us that tinker class

74

Hey… what is this thread abo…

/backs up slowly
/runs

1 Like
75

Gnomes are not liked because they don’t fit the mold, like the Pandaren. Besides that, most of the transmog look bad at them, similar to Goblins on the Horde-side. Additionally Gnomes are nearly non-existent in cutscenes, lore and the overall storyline. They are simply the crazy inventors and it’s Blizzard fault that they haven’t pushed a mature storyline so they become more likable.

It does not help either that the Alliance will likely get a low-budget Gnome-reskin nobody asks for in the near future.

76

It was tough, but I managed it.

77

WoW is chock-full of tongue-in-cheek humor and silly real world references.
I think that people who come to this franchise looking for gritty mature storylines are looking in the wrong place tbh. I’m not saying it should all be sillyness, but there’s a balance. And gnomes are part of that balance.

Not everyone likes all races. I dislike the draenei. A lot.

78

Yes… and no. If you look back at the design choices they made, you see a proportional rise on more mature themes and choices until they hit the middle ground with the Pandaria < > BfA designs which look like a mixture of a saturated cartoon.

WotLK was dark and gritty for that universe and is likely the most beloved expansion next to Legion, which is why some people have similar expectations from the game as whole. Gnomes as a race are fine - but they need some proper tweaking and being less stereo-typed. But I properly shouldn’t say nothing, almost every race is kinda a cliché so the players can associate with them easier.

79

Aye. Every single race is a stereotype in one way or another.
And players are drawn to them for different reasons.

Before WoW was released I LOVED Tauren. But when I saw their WoW ingame design I was very disappointed and I no longer wanted to play one. So I went orc.
With the race model updates this was fixed a bit, but I still think the WC3 tauren design looks better.

80

Did you bother reading this or…?