Torp shaman keep Fungi or swap for something else?

[pijan]

Closing in on 60 with my shaman and trying to figure out if it will be worth keeping a Fungi once I have torp, or if I should swap out for something else. Any input on this? It feels like tank stats will be best with torp but I'm not real sure.

[Tecmos Deception]

What percentage of time do you spend at 100% hp?

[loramin]

What percentage of time do you spend at 100% hp?

This is an excellent point, and I think the whole "a Fungi is pointless with Torpor" thing is a bit over-stated.

At the same time though ... personally I swapped in a Vindi BP, and gave my tunic to an alt, and I never even noticed the missing regen. YMMV.

[Tecmos Deception]

This is just how I've always considered it. Fungi regen converted into mana with canni 4 is basically as much mana regen as clarity 1.

How uber does your chest piece have to be before it is worth more to you than an extra clarity that stacks with everything? I guess it might depend on what you're doing. Facetanking some buff velious mob, maybe the stats on something like vindi bp are better. Acting as healer, buffer, slower in a group in seb or fear or something, maybe the extra regen/mana is better.

[pijan]

Fungi regen would be basically one extra Canni 4 a minute. Is that a greater advantage than tank stats that would mitigate damage taken?

[kjs86z]

Life is good if deciding between fungi or vindi BP.

I'd prob be moving the fungi to my next alt, but that's because I'm rather poor and only own one fungi.

[Tecmos Deception]

Fungi regen would be basically one extra Canni 4 a minute. Is that a greater advantage than tank stats that would mitigate damage taken?

One canni 4 per tick is about clarity 1, just like I said.

I also basically posed your question already too.

Go parse it. Or believe the shams who commented. Or swap your gear like I suggested. Or keep repeating things and asking questions, I guess.

[Baler]

Fungi and Vindi BP are BiS for shaman
Keep the fungi and swap it in when you're not raiding or during raid downtime.

[loramin]

Fungi and Vindi BP are BiS for shaman
Keep the fungi and swap it in when you're not raiding or during raid downtime.

Heh, I already keep my Dragon BP around and swap it in for the Vindi BP, just so that I can right-click Stamina. Would be annoying to have to carry three around ...

But yeah, if I had too much plat and didn't have the fungi that used to be on Loramin on an alt, I think a slight variation of what Baler said would be best. The truly BiS Shaman needs three BPs:


Any Velious one for the right-click
Fungi for killing more low-level stuff faster
Vindi BP for surviving fights with hard stuff

[bricke75]

This is an excellent point, and I think the whole "a Fungi is pointless with Torpor" thing is a bit over-stated.

At the same time though ... personally I swapped in a Vindi BP, and gave my tunic to an alt, and I never even noticed the missing regen. YMMV.

I did the exact same. Got Vindi BP, moved Fungi to an alt.

[commongood]

If fungi tunic was 5k then I would have kept mine on my shaman after I got 60 and torpor. But as it is I have moved it to my alt monk and I don't think the upside is worth investing another 50k or whatever a fungi costs these days just to min/max.

It's laziness / convenience / poverty I guess.

I mean I never keep up Regrowth after I got torpor even when soloing nasty stuff. Just cause torpor makes it easy mode and I'm lazy.

[Duckwalk]

As has previously been stated, every 15 extra regen is basically an extra stacking clarity. Unless you're soloing WW dragon or something that requires you to constantly be hit or you need the resists, I wear the fungi.

So for almost all group content and raid content where my gameplay looks something like :
malo, slow, canni, slow, canni, slow, canni, /tar tank, torp, canni, /tar group member2, torp, canni, /reply "yes, ill fos/stam/str/dex you in one sec", /tar shitty ranger, dex, canni, stam, canni, str, canni, fos, canni, /tar new mob, malo, slow, etc...

I am more than happy to have a fungi on, always have regen on, and wish i was a troll or iksar.

Race doesn't matter for soloing content. The top solo shaman is a barbarian last i checked but extra regen makes your life a lot easier for 90% of the content you'll be doing. Vindi bp or fungi? Get both obviously though.