Help me choose a race for my shaman

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Recently I got interested in playing shaman - they have so many cool magical abilities and are still decent fighters. But I can’t decide what race to choose. My favorite races (elves) cannot be shamans so the choice becomes more difficult.
The races I like the most are dwarves, dark iron dwarves, Kul Tiran, goblins, vulpera. I could consider orc of female troll (male trolls have awful looking faces).

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For PvP Dark iron dwarf and maghar orc and orc

For PvE - Anything you want, but I suggest you for the alliance: Draenei and Kul Tiran. And for Horde: Darkspear, Zandalari

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I say Kul Tiran or Draenei.

Go KT if you’re more into humans.

Go Draenei if you like goats. (they are getting cool red skins soon btw)

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Is your recommendation based on their racial abilities?

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Shamans sadly have druid syndrome in that it’s impossible for them to not be uggo.

If you’re alliance then I guess goat, if you’re horde, reroll into something that can be undead or belf.

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Nope it’s based on looks/lore only, though the racials aren’t bad in either one.

I personally went for KT because I like humans (even fat ones) but both look really good on shaman armor, and lore wise they make sense.

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Female Orc.

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Nobody said Vulpera yet?

They have the best totems by far and it’s not even a contest.

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This is your answer. Now go roll your Shaman!

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You have the weirdest takes, honestly.

Also on topic: Orc imo. That’s the quintessential WoW shaman.

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Kul tiran if you want to be alliance
Goblin or vulpera if you want to be horde

Vulpera if you don’t care either way

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For alliance, either dwarf / dark iron dwarf.

For horde, orc / mag har orc.

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Thanks for all your suggestions so far. I think I’ll have 1 Alliance and 1 Horde:

These 2 I like most from the Alliance. Which one would you recommend or it doesn’t make a difference?

These 2 I like the most from the Horde. Vulpera look really nice and I think the Camp ability could be really useful. Goblins also look good, the mobile bank probably won’t be that useful but the vendor discount sounds good.

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Pandaren.

Wandering Isles intro quest has you bringing lost elementals back home :smile_cat:

Vulpera are fun too though, they’re small enough to be very entertaining with the gust of wind talent.

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I looked at pandas, they are cool and are animals like vulpera but male pandas are just too fat.

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There is only one correct answer, and it is Dwarf.

Dark Iron or regular one, either is fine.

Taurens are acceptable.

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Dranei have the best looking totems imo.

But I like the hordish sound of bloodlust.

Make a level one character of each race and play around with xmogs and totems.

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Choose the one whose totems/combat animations you like the most.

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D… don’t go male then :dracthyr_sweat:

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I doubt it makes a difference. Just go for the one that’s more appealing to you. I’d probably choose the dark iron dwarves, just for the sake of being abit more fresh.

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