hizzie

i have a 59 ranger and would like to try out a caster so i decided to go with shaman, i am stumped between making an ogre or a barb shammi, the reason for this is i understand that ogres have a exp penalty but awesome starter stats, the barbs have very low exp penalty but haver borderline starter stats, i would really like to make an ogre but lvling fast is important to me at this point, i would just like to know if the ogre exp penalty really makes that big of a difference in the 30's and upper levels, if not id go with ogre, but if so i dont a problem going with barb, please just give me your input