[Crede]

Originally Posted by red_demonman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

FSI makes you not get stunned face-tanking.
Shamans face-tank hard mobs.
Getting stunned interrupts your spell casting.
Multiple interrupts on torpor is what can get you killed when soloing hard stuff on shaman.
Getting stunned equals more interrupts than if you couldn't get stunned.
Small amounts of AC or regen mean jack shit compared to torpor.

Hope this helps any lizard brains that have trouble processing why FSI is so good for shaman. You may need to correlate all these facts, take 2 aspirin for any headaches.

Just more theorycraft that FSI is actually doing something for you besides maybe preventing a death 1 outta a million attempts.

Originally Posted by Crede [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There’s no way to actually prove FSI is superior though. If you had a million hours of shaman logs on an ogre, and a million hours of shaman logs on a troll/iksar, what exactly would be your rating criteria?

Getting stunned just means it took you longer to cast a spell. But regen means you will have more mana to cast spells because you don’t need to cast torpor as much. There’s no way you could possibly tell how many times FSI saved your life either. Even if it did, why would that make it better? A rare death here and there from a stun doesn’t make it better. This is what you fail to realize.

FSI benefits on a shaman are all theorycraft. It doesn’t equate to anything. We can show that an iksar monk can probably pull longer than a human monk with regen ticking. And also tank better with the ac bonus. There’s nothing we can actually measure to say FSI is better on a shaman. I wouldn’t be surprised if the troll snare necklace has saved more lives than shaman FSI. We can tell an ogre warrior can actually position better and generate more aggro in the long term with FSI.

I’ve said it before like many others. FSI is a benefit in that it removes the annoyance of getting stunned for shamans. That’s it. And it might make you a better jbb caster. But spamming jbb isn’t shaman min max. .