How To Use Torpor
 

Im still learning my Shaman, currently lvl 39, but I keep hearing a lot about this spell and how game changing it is. I was wondering if someone could explain why? How would you use it in a rotation?

Thanks!

it's just an incredibly mana efficient heal over time

Step 1: Cast Torpor on yourself
Step 2: Spam eat your own face (canni)
Step 3: Chuckle as your health bar doesnt go down but mana bar goes up
Step 4: Profit

Torpor heals 300/tick for 4 or 5 ticks, so 1200 or 1500 health, and only costs 200 mana.

The next best heal is Superior Healing which gives 583 health for 250 mana.

For your canni cycle, Superior Heal essentially breaks even, and wouldn't be worth heal, canni, heal. Torpor + Canni, you end up having more health then you spend cannibalizing for the mana to cast it, so you can cannibalize further for your other spells.

It's also terribly funny to cast on someone trying to run from a train.

Don't you need to be grouped with the person you're trying to cast it on?

It's over 1200 hp for 125 mana

It's just simply overpowered. It's pretty much a design/coding mistake. It's the #1 reason why people play Shaman - they require less than zero skill to operate and still have some of the most powerful abilities in the game.

Classicly Torpor cost 200 mana and drained 50 mana per tick. This made it cost 400 mana to cast on yourself and drained 200 mana from another target if you cast on them.

That extra penalty made it far more balanced.

Due to a bug or oversight this mana drain was removed in late Kunark.

1200 HP for 400 mana is a lot more balanced.

Thankfully, there's a pretty steep monetary barrier on this server that prevents all but the most dedicated (or twinked) shamans from having access to Torpor. I think there would be far less clerics if Torpor was purchaseable from a vendor.

Step 1, Get torpor
Step 2, Get torpor
Step 3, Bump thread wtb torpor for weeks
Step 4, Be confused why Torpor only drops in like 2 places in the game aside from raid targets.
Step 5, Roll an alt.