Originally Posted by
Keoren
In the case of worgen and troll mages, we can talk about ~1% or even > 1%. I can also name at least two occasions (Ultraxion and Nefarian heroic) where a single person doing 600 more dps would've resulted in an earlier kill, along with multiple ~1% wipes.
We are not even considering abilities such as darkflight here.
It is not a big difference and the probability is quite low. If it was a huge issue, I would've race changed out of gnome long time ago. It is still big enough in my eyes, whereas below 0.5% is where I would draw the line.
Yes.
Gnome is also pretty pointless for arcane nowadays since the racial was changed from 5% max to 5% base intellect which is only around one thousand points of mana, if I recall correctly.