Gnome

Racial abilities

Racial	Type	What it does
Expansive Mind	passive	Maximum Mana increased by 5%. What to know: Most valuable for casters, who gain a bigger mana pool.
Eureka!	active	Your non-periodic damaging abilities have their Energy cost reduced by 10% and deal 10% more damage. What to know: Use it on direct-damage rotations and big cooldowns. Strongest for Mages and Rogues, and for Warlocks and Priests who use direct spells.
Escape Artist	active	Instantly escape the effects of any movement impairing effect and gain immunity to those effects for 3 sec. What to know: Good against roots and slows while leveling and in dungeons, especially for casters and Rogues.
Engineering Specialization	passive	Your gnomish ingenuity reduces the rate of engineering devices failing or backfiring when you use them by 20%. What to know: Only relevant for Engineers. Helps with dangerous gadgets and bombs.

Best classes for Gnome

• Mage: The bigger mana pool and Eureka! suit direct-damage Mages, and Escape Artist frees them from roots.
• Warlock: Likely a good fit for Destruction and Demonology, with a larger mana pool and a damage window on direct spells.
• Priest: Confounding Flash, Contingency Plan and a larger mana pool suit Holy; Eureka! can boost direct healing.
• Rogue: Likely a good pick: Eureka! cuts energy cost and raises direct damage, and Escape Artist breaks slows.

Lore

Gnomes are small, inventive people who care more for gadgets, invention and tinkering than anything else. Their origins go back to the titans, who made the mechagnomes and, through a curse of flesh, the gnomes. Their love of machines and curiosity define them.

Their city, Gnomeregan, lies in the mountains of Dun Morogh, in the lands of Khaz Modan. In the time of the original game it has been taken over by the troggs, and it has been poisoned by the radiation that the traitorous Mekgineer Thermaplugg released while trying to drive the invaders out. The survivors, led by High Tinker Mekkatorque, fled to Ironforge, where they live in Tinker Town, and work to retake their home.

Gnomes joined the Alliance in the Second War. They are close allies of the dwarves, and their inventions, from flying machines to explosives, are part of the Alliance war effort. They also have an interest in the arcane, so they often become Mages and Warlocks.

The gnomes are cheerful and sometimes absent-minded, and they live in a world of devices that do not always work. They speak Gnomish.

Good to know

• Gnome Priest is a class and race combination that is new in Forever.
• Gnome Priests have Confounding Flash and Contingency Plan. Fear Ward is available to every Priest.
• Arcane Resistance is not a Gnome racial in Forever.
• Language: Gnomish.