i forgot: elves also have innate resistance to sleep/charm/domination-type spells, and get +1 to hit and damage for both long swords and long bows. this makes a 19 dex elven archer with grandmastery in longbow even more dangerous. download the
Baldurdash patch in the tweaks section to make grandmastery even better (it's not cheating, lots of bad guys have grandmastery, many more than you would think)