If you're starting fresh, and not looking to pvp, you actually have three options:
• Blue: a 10-year-old server; has been in Velious for some number of years; population is probably a bit top-heavy; but has a lot of good items available for cheap in EC.
• Green: a 2-month-old server; in Vanilla (pre-Kunark) currently and will progress through Velious; larger population than Blue.
• Teal: a clone of Green that's exactly the same but something like 20% fewer players. I'd say it's exactly the same age, but technically it's 2 weeks younger; but the overall population is at the same approximate level range because character transfers from Green were allowed during the first couple weeks of Teal.
Note that Teal and Green are supposed to merge by Kunark (~October 2020), unless the staff change their minds about that.
Other players may have different info/impressions/opinions on the three servers.
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Regarding your quest for shaman info, the topic of shaman race has been hashed and re-hashed literally dozens of times. I do recommend you search these forums for "shaman race" or "shaman race regen troll iksar barbarian ogre" or "shaman frontal stun immunity" or whatever terms you may be interested in. The info has already been thoroughly digested by the Project 1999 community via hundreds of pages of debate over the last 10 years, so please take advantage of it.
Welcome back and enjoy your time.
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