[Lhancelot]

Welcome.

I will try to give you some ideas about race for shaman to think on!

Iksar shaman is small, has a tail, has regen which will help you seeing you won't have a fungi tunic for a long while. Regen meshes with shaman cannibalization spells well, and the more HPS you got with regen the better. Iksar (and troll) regen make them even more efficient regarding gianing mana back thanks to their natural racial regen.

The downside to iksar is they start in a desolate place, they cannot slam (as all the other large races can) which helps when you fight casting mobs, and they cannot use a JBB (bracer with a clicky nuke at lvl 45 does 263 damage) which is a really nice leveling aid. Iksar are also hated everywhere by everything but iksar.

Consider a troll if you want natural regen for your shaman. They can choose Innoruuk as their deity, this allows you to also quest a nice clicky snare necklace but you must choose Innoruuk at character select to later quest this item. Troll gets slam, and also can use JBB later on at 45 lvl. Trolls can cast shrink so they can be smaller in dungeons just in case you forgot.

If you want a shaman that can move about most of Norrath with little trouble meaning you can find places to bank and buy/sell at vendors easier, has slam, can use a JBB and looks the most handsome go with barbarian for your race.

Last is ogre. Last but probably the best honestly speaking for shamans racially. They get stellar starting stats, and the one ability that no item in the game emulates is their racial FSI or frontal stun immunity. Basically if you stand in a corner and face mobs, the chances of you being interrupted compared to all other races is significantly less. What this means is, you will get your roots off easier, your slows off easier, this means you will not get stun locked and killed by mobs if you happen to have more than one on you. It's really a powerful racial and cannot be understated how nice it is for a shaman! Just remember to stick +5 points into AGI because ogres start with 70, meaning you will have a significant armor class hit due to having AGI less than 75. You want any new character to start with 75+ AGI, just an FYI.

Hope that helps and welcome to p99!