Good luck trying to clear hs west with 2 enchanters before respawns.

Bizarre theory you’ve come up with.

Legit pick up the druid for ports and long snares on charm pets.

Druid maybe. Necro no. Mage likely not either.

If you can't clear them before respawns with 2 Enchanters, you can't do it with 3 either. Again, you are saving 14 seconds per kill on a mob with 8000 HP.

A raid geared necro with willsapper is also crazy. Or staff of the silent star, that thing procs like a beast. With FD/instant clicky invis you can get to camps super fast, even in normally very hostile zones like DN rat tunnels.

The more I think about this, the more the thought that shamans add any meaningful utility compared to literally any other caster or priest is hilarious to me haha. Maaaybe mages are more onedimensional, but you can do some pretty cool pulling tricks with CotH to single pull juggs in seb etc. Nobody even mentioned track, which is something druids get a good version of and which along with ports is a huge huge W for your xping/cash camping group. You get to the camp before anyone else, you see which mobs are up before anyone else... you'll walk all over the groups who have to carry along a slow as fuck shaman.

They don’t. Dsm is just defending this to the death.

Just dsm reaching again. Ww dragons are easy. 3 enc animations could kill them. They just don’t because they are off doing better things.

It's not reaching. I would love to see a video of this if you have it. The 55 Enchanter animation is barely better than the 55 Shaman pet, and it cannot tank a slowed WW Dragon. You would be doing a lot of pet resummoning.

I mean, if the moment came where I needed a tanky class in order to do some mob in a zone, screw the caster only composition, because I'm grabbing myself a Warrior or knight.

Why would I need a completely redundant Shaman?

Well there's a period on the server where shamans are fantastic, but that window pretty much closes permanently once velious releases. Massive stats on items, unslowable mobs, and charm doesn't get reeled in until later.

DSM sounds like someone who has been stuck with the very limited toolbox of a shaman for a long time, and he probably just doesn't even know about the crazy things other classes can do (together). Like there's no way this dude knows about coth pulling.