Wayfarers of Veeshan

Hail! I am fairly new here on the boards, but I already have a topic of interest and hopefully we can put to rest some worries I have about my main character, Grunnar. To begin with, I'm really new to shaman class and my main over the past 3 years had been a necro and recently a warrior. I have played every class in EverQuest up to at least 20, with exception of beastlord and have had some bad experiences in the past with certain combinations of races and classes. I have been researching my class as I have been leveling and have noticed very few vah shir shaman in existence on Veeshan server--the great majority are all barbarians or trolls with a few iksar and ogres. So I began talking with a level 63 vah shir shaman and asked him if there were any disadvantages to being a vah shir shaman and he gave me rather cursory answers, but after looking even further into it myself, I soon found that there was an entire line of spells (imbue) that was unavailable to vah shir. I found that the imbue spells are for creation of diety-specific shaman equipment, but none of it seemed very useful. Noting that their was an emphasis on dieties with shaman, I started thinking; a shaman is really a diety-based class, so what are agnostic-only vah shir doing as shaman? I didn't really feel like going through the entire shaman spell list to check if there were anymore diety-specific spells, nor did I get a straight answer from any 60+ shaman on whether or not they had any superior equipment that would be unavailable to a vah shir, but am I missing something here? Despite my troubling findings, I still remain dedicated to my shaman and will not let these things thwart my progress, but I would certainly love to know if any curve balls are coming.

That class like ANY of the classes will have it's advantages and disadvantages. While you may lose some diety specific items (Like imbued ivory items that are Barbarian - Tribunal Only) it's not a really big deal ultimately. There are other items that have similar stats and bonus. I don't think there are any truely VahShir/BL ONLY items in the lists but I certainly don't know every item out there.

One of the most interesting things they do have going for them are the tradeskill quests. It might be something that would get you geared up for the shawls in Thurgadin =)

Not sure if this helps.... just my

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Xandamir - 57th level Templar (Ranger Rezzor)
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Calithe - 47th level bardling (Never wanted to be a ranger)
Nessah - 37th Level Ranger Mezzer

The only thing I can think of right now is I do not see "Cultural" armor Recipes for the vah shir. They may exist but do not see them on the eqtraders site.

As for a vah shir, they would make a good race for the class, they will are similar to the Barbarian race. Also, you may want to look into if they have any faction restrictions.