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EQ:Races

There are sixteen playable races in EverQuest, and a considerably higher number of non-player races. There are several notable differences between races beyond the visual; several races get enhanced night vision, forage, slam, hide, or sneak. The races also start off with different statistics, something that is now fairly irrelevant because of the ease of capping your stats.

Please feel free to discuss the races or ask questions about them in our General EverQuest Forum.

Barbarians

Size - Large

Alignment: Good

Innate Abilities: slam

Dark Elves

Size - medium

Alignment: Evil

Innate Abilities: Hide and Ultravision

Drakkin

Size - medium

Alignment: Neutral

Drakkin get a unique series of AoE breath skills (aka Dragon Breath), that are DOTs + resist debuffs, the exact spell depends on the color (aka heritage) of the drakkin. These progressive abilities are quested, and start here.

Dwarves

Size - Small

Alignment: Good

Innate Abilities: Infravision

Erudites

Size - medium

Alignment: Neutral

Innate Abilities: none

Frogloks

Size - medium

Alignment: Good or Evil

Innate Abilities: Swimming (begin with skill of 125); Ultravision

Gnomes

Size - Small

Alignment: Neutral

Innate Abilities: Tinkering, Hide - capped at 75 (?)

Half-Elves

Size: Medium

Alignment: Neutral

Innate Abilities: Infravision

Halflings

Size: Small

Alignment: Good

Innate Abilities: Infravision; Hide (capped at 50); 5% xp bonus

High Elves

Size: Medium

Alignment: Good

Innate Abilities: Infravision

Humans

Size: Medium

Alignment: Neutral

Innate Abilities: none

Iksar

Size: Medium

Alignment: Evil

Innate Abilities: Infravision; Starts with Swimming Skill of 100; Innate AC bonus (with the downside that they can't wear pre-Velious plate); Forage (capped at 50); higher regen (scales with levels); eats faster than other races

Ogres

Size: Large

Alignment: Evil

Innate Abilities: slam; can not be stunned from the Front (unique ability!); eats faster than other races

Trolls

Size: Large

Alignment: Evil

Innate Abilities: slam; higher regen (scales with level); Infravision; eats faster than other races

Vah Shir

Size: Large

Alignment: Neutral

Innate Abilities: slam; eats faster than other races

Wood Elves

Size: Small

Alignment: Good

Innate Abilities: Infravision; Hide (skill 50); Forage (skill 50)