Anyone who says ogre for stun immunity is probably just repeating what they've heard, and never actually played a shaman. A turgurs'ed mob bashes once every 32 seconds. Only about half of those land. So a non ogre gets interrupted once a minute or so. And if you're tanking unslowed mobs that can possibly kill you, you're doing something wrong. Learn to use your pet effectively to absorb damage early in the fight. The only time I wish I had stun immunity is when I'm PLing and tanking many unslowed green cons.
Starting stats are the only reason I'd consider ogre a good choice. However, with velious, it will become rather easy to cap STA and get wis to 200+ with any race, so stats become less important.
Troll regen is nice, but it can't beat barb spirit hammer. An extra 8 hp a tick for a troll is like getting 4 mana a tick, which can then be converted to 20 damage max. So you get an extra 3 dps or so from troll regen. Barb hammer is far more than that. I haven't done any parsing of it, but by eyeballing, I'd say it's somewhere in the 10-25 range. And you don't need to be rich now to afford one. Save your money and by the time you're of the level to proc it, you may have enough.
Barb > Troll > Ogre
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