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Originally Posted by Ballaorf
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I guess because of this gear, I'm having a lot of trouble soloing. I can only take one blue before I need to heal and med up for 5+ minutes - and the blues take me down to 30-40% HP.
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I doubt the problem is your gear. Shaman really don't care about gear very much, except for key items like the JBB. Your primary weapon does matter a little bit, and obviously a suit of chain armor will help a bit more than a suit of leather, but really the gear you have isn't a big factor in your soloing success.
However, the simple truth is that whatever your gear (unless you have a Fungi), soloing is going to be a bit slow at your level. You're using your level 9 Poison DoT and your level 4(!) Disease DoT, so naturally your DPS is going to be a bit weak.
Things will speed up when you get a new Disease DoT at 19, and then they're
really speed up at 24 when you get your first Cannabalize spell (and a new Poison DoT, new DD, first regen buff, a bunch of other buffs, etc.) Until then, you just have to "afk" solo a bit.
Go somewhere like Lake Rathe, where you have a bunch of single root/rot targets around. Root/rot one (or two if you can manage to do so without dying), then just sit down, meditate, and go do something else for a bit, maybe even something productive IRL. Within a few hours you'll find the XP feels like it's coming much faster, and your house will get cleaner (or your dinner will get cooked, or whatever it is you do while AFK).
Keep at it for a few days and you'll be 19 in no time, and if you enjoy the AFK root/rot style you can keep doing it until 24 or beyond (although again, with Cannabalize and the other spells you get at 24 you should need less AFK time).
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Originally Posted by Ballaorf
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I've consulted a few leveling guides I've found, but I can't solo most of the spots it recommends (I did make a full level soloing the sisters bandit camp, but then died three times to roaming brownies, so I'm scared away from lfay). I've tried finding groups in Oasis, Unrest, and Highpass; I got an Orc Highway group in Oasis once, but otherwise have come up empty-handed every time I've looked.
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I strongly recommend checking out the
Per-Level Hunting Guide (
levels 15-19 section). It's for all classes, but I first started it when leveling my Shaman so it has tons of ideas for places for Shaman to hunt. You can even narrow it down to Shaman-recommended places by going to the top of the page and clicking on the Shaman filter.