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Originally Posted by Maschenny
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Are you sure you have a torp shaman?
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What part did you not understand?
Torpor is powerful but it isn't free and it isn't a complete heal. If you aren't timing Cannibalizes perfectly inbetween med ticks in situations where your health is being heavily pressured, then you are simply being less efficient. Cannibalize isn't an infinite generator, rather something that converts a resource you don't always need (health) into one you usually need more (mana).
You give up 210 mana and 30 health during a minute of not hitting sit ticks (more health if a regen race). This is a free resource that should be used during times when you can't cannibalize non-stop. Torpor is a finite amount of healing, an average of 2,700 per minute we could say. If you come out of a fight with 20% health for example, then after a minute of spamming cannibalize + 2 torpors, you will only be at about 50% health still. There are situations where it's definitely relevant to not want your health total to be so low (particularly under Torpor, as you move slowly). As such, you instead should have been staggering cannibalize with sit ticks, since this gives the most optimal combined rate of health and mana regen at the time.
Or for example if you are root rotting a bunch of mobs and taking hits as the roots break, or from adds. The damage you're taking from the mobs + thoughtless canni spam might exceed the amount that torpor + regen heals (and it's important to note that Torpor is rarely ever perma-maintained, there's almost always going to be gaps between it ending and being re-applied). As such, you are eventually going to have to slow down your canni usage anyway, which means that whole time you were missing out on the gains from natural sit ticks. If you don't manage your resources perfectly, then you might end up having to zone from not being able to handle adds, which means you lost instead of winning.