^ How do Dwarves fit into this discussion at all?
Ofc more health + more resists is better than less health + more resists. And what does "brawling" mean at all? I hate that term with a passion, linguistically it implies fighting several people at once or several people fighting at once, not a protracted fight between two people. And it also conflates res stacking and regen fighting which makes it unclear to me what you're trying to say.
If you mean regen fighting, than, well, no, Dwarves aren't any better at it than anyone else is. As long as you have blacskpace. If it doesn't involve blackspace - it's not regen fighting. But yes, they're really good with a lot of resists on them, I've done that in Naga City with Binlor (didn't even farm his resists much, took him for the damage and occasional stoneskins, not saying that's the best way to play them). I do it with JJ Dwarf Monks all the time. But if you're dumping a big health pool with resists into someone, you need to regen fight them less to finish it off, but you also don't need to regen fight at all, just ding or refill will do. And you still need to refill that pool.
Not saying that they're not good with resists, or ever that stacking resists isn't the strongest possible thing to do with a Dwarf. Or that a Dwarf with a lot of Resists isn't strong. But he's just a fat ole guy with a lot of resists and health, who isn't dangerous in that situation?
And yeah, they CAN get more initial hits in, and that is pretty nice.
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As for the actual topic - if you'd rather change your god than the race, that's Orc Berserkers, you, and also complicating things. Getting flexibility and refills while not budging from Taurog is a pretty sweet deal. And also - picking a different god for a Berserker never was a problem or controversial, picking a different race was. And the only halflings which actually care for stacking Health are Rogues and Bloodmages, and not all that much.
And halflings don't care about getting to the point where they kill stuff without consumables, because they've got the consumables. And they can always kill stuff without consumables, they use them to get better or more important kills.