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Best race for a Shaman ?
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Choose the race you prefer to look at, because this is the thing you will have in your face for the next 70 lvls.
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Racials from a PvP perspective:
~Draenei~
1. Passive Shadow Resistance. Yay for locks
2. Gemcutting. yay 5 more points in JC'ing
3. Gift of the Naaru is a free HoT, awesome for non healer classes. In this case its a Shaman, so it kinda loses a little value, but is still useful very now and then.
4. Heroic/Inspiring Presence. Chance to hit with melee attacks and spells by 1%. In A Shaman's case, its the Spell hit one.
Basically Draenei racials scream Warrior to me...but that's just me.
~Orc~
1. Hardiness. 15% stun resistance is awesome. Period. Helps alot since practically every class can stun except a Shaman unless he's a Tauren...but yeah.
2. Blood Fury increases attack power and spell damage for 15 seconds but you MS yourself in the process. Good for the burst dps you need.
3. Command. Hunter and Warlock pet damage inceased by 5%. Obviously useless for a Shaman.
4. Axe Specialization. Expertise with axes and two-handed axes increased by 5. This reduces the chance for enemies to parry and dodge your attacks.
Basically Orcs are best as Enhancement and are lacking as Elemental or Resto in terms of racials. I'd personally pick Orc for the passive stun resistance and increased dps.
~Tauren~
1. Cultivation. Herbalism skill increased by 15. Pretty much useless unless you become an alchemist.
2. Nature Resistance. Good against poisons/Boomkins/Elemental Shammies.
3. War Stomp. Stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds. A god-send for any Shammy.
4. Endurance. Total health increased by 5%. The better geared you get, the more health this racial pumps out. Very handy.
Tauren are very versatile in any spec for a Shaman. Better health and a stun = <3.
~Troll~
1. Berserking. Increases attack and casting speed by 10% to 30%. Basically the more damage you take the better this racial becomes. Very awesome for Resto and Elemental Shammies. Not so much for Enhancement though since you want to have as slow attacks as possible so you won't disrupt the hidden windfury cooldown.
2. Beast Slaying. Increases damage dealt to beasts by 5%. Pretty much useless unless you're fighting a Feral Druid or a Hunter's pet.
3. Bow specialization. Increases chance to crit with bows by 1%. Since Shammies can't use bows, it's useless to one.
4. Health Regeneration. Regen is increased by 10%. Also works during combat.
In my opinion Trolls are best as Elemental or Restoration, but aren't quite good as Enhancement.
~Conclusion~
(tl;dr post)
Orcs: Dps boosts and 15% stun resistance. Yay Enhancement.
Draenei: Overall, meh. Decent at everything, not excellent though.
Tauren: Live longer and stun...sweet for every spec.
Troll: Yay for caster specs.
Go Orc as Enhancement n' crazy damage, Tauren if you wanna be good in any spec, Draenei if all your friends are Failliance(as mine is...Q_Q), and Troll if you wanna be Elemental or Resto.
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if this hasent been mentioned: trols can increase the speed of their heals by a very large amount when under 20% health making them very hard to bring down.
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Heh, well just to state, not all Alliance are bad. There's some really good people out there who play Alliance and I salute them for their skills. It's just that most Alliance I come across don't seem to know how to play their class as well as Horde seems to. Then again...the same could probably be said for Horde. There's really good players on both sides, and unfortunately...there's also bad players on both sides. The grass is always greener on the other side. Since my friends and I are Alliance, it seems that Horde improvise and strategize better than most Alliance. For this purpose I was going to make a Tauren Warrior and Undead Rogue...but the Draenei Shaman I made kinda took priority. Not to mention that WF is freakin' awesome, @_@; I'm just rambling now though, so...yeah.
I stick by with what I said in my previous post...though I could probably clean it up a bit with the lists...
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<_<; I know that I was once a noob. I'm just saying that Horde seem to be more knowledgable than Alliance. Then I said the Horde probably think the same of the Alliance sometimes. The grass is always greener on the other side...
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