I leveled a Necro on Red recently and I found root to be miserable. It lasted on average . . . probably less than half duration. It wasn't until I got Splurt, Ignite Blood, and Paralyzing Earth that I felt root rotting was even remotely practical. Leveling with a <24 second root, low efficiency/resistable/rootbreaking poison and disease dots, a green pet that can't double attack (when you have one at all), and a spell that must be cast hundreds of times to regain mana (when you have one at all) seems like an exercise in tedium compared to charm soloing.
Granted the epic/jbb help a lot here, but how will you get them if you solo your way up and don't join a guild/dungeon crawl in Sebilis? So I think for untwinked Shaman it makes a lot more sense to grab a buddy and kill stuff 4x faster.
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