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Originally Posted by whippetofspades
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Was under the impression people used the JBB to solo dragons? So why does frontal stun immunity matter if you can cast from a distance anyway? I don't know how people go about soloing Velious dragons, am just curious.
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Shaman high-end soloing involves tanking. It's part of why they gear for AC/HP. With good enough gear, you can tank some really beastly mobs if you slow them and torpor yourself, and then deal damage with epic clicky, JBB, pet and maybe a disease DoT while spending most mana on staying alive. Stun immunity becomes really crucial then because getting bashed could otherwise mean your death, and while other races
can do anything an ogre can do, ogres have a huge advantage and can do it with less gear and more safety. It's also very nice in all other aspects of gameplay because you will occasionally get hit when you're debuffing or root-rotting, but it's not as critical when you're just soloing or sitting on your ass in a group while leveling. Since barbarians have no advantage and iksar/troll regen becomes largely obsolete once you get torpor, ogre is widely considered the best long-term race.
Basically, ubermob soloing goes like this:
1) Pull with Malo because it's unresistable
2) Slow asap
3) Optionally cast the resistable Malosini or whatever it's called afterwards because it reduces resist more than Malo
4) Torpor yourself
5) Put epic clicky and Pox of Bertoxxulous (optional but recommended) on the mob
6) Spamclick JBB whenever you're not refreshing Torpor
7) Cannibalize when your HP is high enough to do it safely
8) Re-apply Malosini and slow if the fight lasts that long
You're simply tanking the mob the whole time. With good enough gear, Torpor out-heals its slowed DPS plus enough cannis to sustain mana. If your gear isn't good enough, you'll take more melee damage from the mob and resist less of its nukes/breaths (if applicable) and your lower HP will make it unsafe to canni etc. Getting bashed can either mean your death since you couldn't get an important spell off, or simply getting behind the careful balance of keeping all those spells up and timed correctly, and eventually you'll lose. An ogre can do it pretty safely and with a lower gear requirment while another race would probably have to have unreasonably good gear and will occasionally die due to bad luck with interrupts where the ogre would have been fine.