Job question

[Nutz]

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Or, more simply lol: how important is the race you choose?

The gap in starting stats, I believe, is as wide as that gap ever is (proportionately at least). By ilvl 90 your primary stat (STR, DEX, INT, or MND) is about 50% innate, 50% gear I think. I think I recall that hp variance between the lowest VIT race and highest ends up being about 2%. In other words it makes a small enough difference that even in a community of people min/ maxing everything nobody cares about it. Realistically you can play every single class in the game as well as anyone else.