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Originally Posted by Samoht
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ogre racial only slightly matters. you still get interrupted by push when channeling fails. it only prevents you from getting stunned from frontal cone, so a bash from the rear or side will still stun/interrupt.
ogre is only more beneficial when you intend to solo a lot at max level and can take full advantage of the stun immunity.
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That's true, the Ogre frontal stun immunity is not a HUGE ability. Certainly other races can be perfectly viable Shaman, and can even solo Velious mobs without it. And yeah, if you're the rare Shaman who plans to never solo at level 60, then it's really not that great.
But the point is,
when you compare it to other race's abilities, at level 60/with Torpor no one else has anything better. Iksar/Troll regen just doesn't matter much when you can heal yourself so easily with Torpor. Iksar have a few more points of AC, but the difference those few points make in practice is extremely minimal (and perhaps completely meaningless for a raid Shaman who can get enough AC to hit the cap?). And the Barbarian's faction/low XP penalty is also completely meaningless at 60.
So it's not that the Ogre's racial is anything that great, it's just better than everything else (at 60/with Torpor).