No, you don't have to pick a specific race. In the near term your damage doesn't scale well and in the long term you have tremendous statistic buff spells anyhow. Difference between them in melee is pretty slim unless you really hate being bashed. The largest pro-Ogre proponent on this forum confirms in his own testing that the Ogre's advantage is not more than a few per cent at best--not enough to get bent out of shape over unless you're determined to min-max as much as possible. All shamans will supplement their melee damage with spell damage and (later) pet damage because Shaman melee post-level 20 is rather weak due to priest hit tables and no double attack. At the end all shamans will solo while in melee since you don't have a choice against things which summon. They all get the job done.
Danth
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