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Originally Posted by Jan Jensen
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Because, next to warriors, shamans are one of the most expensive classes to gear up for simply functional play. It's a helluva lot more fun as a second character, once you can throw a fungi on him and not feel oppressed by shaman gearing/spell prices.
If farming and getting a foundation together is the intent of the OP, I'd venture to say that chanter makes a far better first character. It also helps to make the player better skilled long term, becoming more familiar with a lot of the game's mechanics and nuances. Chanter also has the added benefit that epic can't be MQ'd - so you won't find level 60s at your quest mobs unless they themselves need the epic. Contrasted with PoFear shaman tear routinely being sold for 75k+ by golem farmers.
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The way I see it, Shaman have levels 61 (epic) and 62 (Torpor) ... it's just that you earn those levels with plat, not XP. Some other classes (eg. Cleric) also have level 61 (epic), but not all do (some epics don't make enough of a difference to count as a "new level"). And certainly no other class I can think of has level 62.
But just because Shaman have the
option of going up to level 62 doesn't mean they have to, and an epic-less, Torpor-less level 60 Shaman is still on par with other level 60 classes (both in terms of power and group desirability). And that same Shaman can also farm
plenty of cash camps to buy stuff for their alts (see the Treasure Hunting Guide link in my signature; almost everything in there can be soloed by a level 60 Shaman, not 61 or 62).
I'll grant that a 60 Enchanter can solo some stuff that a epic-less/Torpor-less Shaman can't, but both are perfectly capable of solo farming for their alts (unlike say a Warrior). Recommending that someone play a class they don't want to play, simply because it's *slightly* better at solo farming alt stuff at level 60 (before either class has farmed 200k, at which point the Shaman will see a much greater power increase) seems like bad advice to me.