[Vanessa]

Hello everyone, I'm considering making a Shaman as an alt, but I want to play it mostly as melee character who debuffs the mobs, and buffs herself etc. Rather than the Root + Dots playstyle, since that's currently what I do mostly on my Druid.

I was looking at the wiki, and the melee stat difference between Iksar / Troll / Ogre, are pretty big. For example, Ogre starts with 130 Str and 127 Sta, whereas a Iksar only has 70 Str and 75 Sta.

With such a huge difference in Str and Stam, does that mean it will be much harder to melee effectively on an Iksar, compared to an Ogre? Am I basically forced to go Ogre or Troll, if I want to level efficiently by mostly meleeing?

Thanks!