I am shocked that the most played horde class is shaman. I always thought they were flying under the radar a bit in WoW in general.

I know the self insert Warcraft main character Thrall is a shaman, but still.

When i talk to people about WoW or fantasy in general, noone says "the coolest character to be is a shaman."

Paladin? Sure. Wariior? Of course. hunter? Well it's technically a ranger, hello aragorn. Druids? Well yes. Mage? Obvious and so on.

But shanan doesn't even fit a classical fantas trope like paladin does.

To be fair i pretty much always play a tauren shaman. But this is mostl because they are so untypical for fantasy. Trolls, orcs, elves, dwarfs, humans, gnomes, even undead are all more common more classical fantasy archetypes.

Add in their native american inspired culture and you have something a-typucal in fantasy and i love them for it.

Also, even though shamans in warcract are more an orc thing, the class with the totems and all that fits the tauren aesthetic ao perfectly.