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Originally Posted by Munkh
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I have some general questions about spell line up for when you are soloing. I have an idea of what my spell line up would be once I hit 34 and am looking for some feedback from shaman's that solo often.
Canni
Winter Roar
Scourge
Targars
Enstill
Malaisment
Greater Healing
Gate
Now my questions are thus. Do solo'ing Shaman's usually keep a Gate up when solo'ing. Second, I have heard that some use blind while soloing. If so how do you work this in if you are intent on engaging the mob or are you using blind as part of your Root/Rot and change the spell line up.
I am wanting to make full use of my Shaman abilities to solo because I know they pretty much rock soloing.
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There is absolutely no point, whatsoever, using Malaisement at that level. It just doesn't offer the return in terms of efficiency. Also, most of the time, you probably don't want to be nuking mobs which is incredibly inefficient.
The lack of a decent Poison DoT really makes a huge difference to the Rot vs Melee balance in the 30s and you will be far better tanking the mob and letting your nice new pet add to your dps. With a decent 2h weapon (PWC ideally) you should outdamage your pet and require no other casts than Slow.
If the only cast you have to make per mob is Tagar, your efficiency is absolutely massive compared to a Rotter. You will kill faster with minimal downtime as long as you have good AC. But you will still have mobs where its more efficient to drop a Scourge, if they are tougher than the most efficient blues. A Rotter will kill much more slowly and probably still have a small amount of downtime afterwards (possibly moderate downtime if they choose to nuke on top, which they probably need to at L34).]
The most important thing to remember when levelling is the less you cast, the faster you level. This holds true for pretty much all set ups in EQ at all levels. So don't waste mana on HP buffs and other wastes of mana. Just keep SoW (outdoors), Quickness and Regen on you and Quickness on the pet.
Spells to keep memmed :-
Canni
Tagar
GHeal
Root
Scourge
Quickness**
Regen**
Free spell slot if you really do want Gate or a Nuke or hell, stick Envenomed Breath in there, its like Winters Roar for 33% less mana. At 39 stick Venom of the SNake in there or rotate Quickness/Regen still leaving a slot free.
** techncially you don't need to keep them memmed but, once you get into the rhythm you will be close to zero downtime so refreshing them live is much more efficient.