[August]

I leveled sk/shm combo with my wife til about 40. I played the SK, she played the shaman.

At about level 30, we had 1 fungi between us, and she started wearing it due to the potential mana efficiency. She also did quite a bit of damage compared to me.

She quit at 40 (dissertation time) and I started playing her character and mine at different times. After about 2 levels I stripped the SK and beefed up the SHM as I had a much better time - I was considerably more powerful as a shaman (think killing 3-4 mobs at a time compared to being able to slowly kill 1 and have to med) - and this is WITH a fungi tunic. The SK w/o a fungi would be painful compared to the shm.

Just my 2 cents. I played a SK on Fippy to 60 and found it a lot of fun. This was my first shaman (And I only played it from 40+) so my views are a bit skewed i imagine