I remember discussing this with Orruar (barbarian) and his logic on the fungi was 'just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you don't want more'. Shaman are an active class that takes a lot of damage when played well and you have to recuperate somehow. And the mana regen is great, but Turgur's, Malo, Bane of Nife, and Chloroblast spam are all tremendously expensive. IMO the fungi and Vindi BP are very close despite the latter's massive advantage in literally every statistic.
OP: you have to ask yourself whether you are going to be OK with being say 3-5% worse than a Troll (or Iksar) for the sake of fashionquest. Personally I like the Iksar models, so going Iksar shaman was easy. If only Monk/Shaman wasn't so so so terrible on TAKP . . .
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