Shaman Race Question...Follow

I currently rolled a Tauren Shaman, my fried says Tauren Shamans aren't good at anything and that instead, I should roll a Orc Shaman. What should I do?

Play whatever race you like the looks of best. The racial traits are nice and some races might be slightly better in PVE or PVP because of them but all races that can play Shaman are viable.

It's your character so don't let other people try to decide what race and class you play. If your friend likes Orc Shaman so much then let him play one.

I guess later on in the higher levels, the added mana won't matter because I can just get it with +Int enchants/armor. Plus you guys have some good points involving War StompI'm going with a Tauren :P


Edited, Nov 7th 2007 6:53pm by Oromo

Edited, Nov 7th 2007 7:03pm by Oromo

I'd say if your going to be Enhance, or are going to PvP alot make a Tauren or and Orc. But if your going to be Resto or Ele go for a Troll since their racial will decrease your cast time a bit. Im Resto right now, and going to be for awhile, and now I wish I had rolled a Troll, since I dont PvP much.

Doesnt matter a whole lot, just if the looks dont matter much to you pick something better for what youre going to be doing.

To be REALLY nit picky regarding races, I might argue that;

Troll's are better for "Caster" type shaman (Namely Elem.), due to possible rapid fire LB's via racial haste, and slightly higher INT than Orc or Tau.

Orc are better for PvE, due to higher possible dmg potential due to racial, and axe proficiancy doens't hurt either!

Tauran are better for PvP, due to AoE stun and slightly higher HP.

I use the term "better" loosely, as neither racial really makes or brakes the classes effectiveness. I play a 70 Tauran sham myself. My GF has a Orc Shaman alt, and I have a alt Troll Shaman on a seperate server, of I've toyed around with each race for a shaman class. Frankly, I tend to forget to use my racials typically, and don't really feel like I'm "missing" them when lvling or farming :p In PvP, War Stomp is nice in a pinch, but concidering that it blows a Global CD, and it does have a cast (.5 sec), it doesn't make it a completely full proof "OS" move, but it has its moments. Basically it gives you a "possible" 2 seconds to do "something" (not 3 secs like the tooltip says, since the GCD took 1 sec away, which tends to be just enough time to take a few steps away from your target, or enough time to get off 1 LHW.

Either way, frankly it comes down to look I think, more so that racial traits. Gear offsets any stat difference the races might have in comparison, so IMPO it really doesn't matter!