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Originally Posted by loramin
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In general if you take a look at the DPS differences, a Shaman with Epic can kill 6 mobs with 6000 HP in roughly 8 minutes using Epic, Paralyzing Earth, and Venom of the Snake. This costs 460 mana per mob (3x roots per mob assuming no breaks + 1x Venom of the Snake), but you are going to be sitting most of the time, and using cannibalize occasionally to make up for the meditation ticks lost while standing and casting. I say 8 minutes because you need to manage all of these 6 rooted mobs, so you are spending time rerooting and re-Epicing. If you are not slowing the mob, you are taking more damage per root break too.
A Shaman with JBB + Fungi Tunic + Fungi Staff can kill roughly 3 mobs in 6 minutes with 6000 HP using 4 JBB clicks + 1 Envenomed Bolt + Pet + Togor's Insects. This is 500 mana per mob. With the Fungi Tunic + Staff you are basically at meditation rates while standing, so you are spending roughly the same mana per mob. You are getting 18 mana/tick with the +30 HP/Tick and the 1200 mana saved per hour via Fungi Staff, and under level 60 you are meditating around that amount. If you can do 1-2 extra clicks of JBB per minute, you will be a bit faster.
Epic Shamans can out-perform JBB + Fungi Tunic + Fungi Staff Shamans in the specific situation of having a camp with 4+ mobs, where you are always getting 4+ mobs per root/rot cycle. This assumes you are always going to get a camp like that while leveling. However, Torpor Shamans will farm money much faster than non-Torpor Shamans. The tradeoff of faster leveling is not worth the slower farming speeds once you hit 60. You may save 10 hours per level for 4-5 levels, but you are going to be spending more than 40-50 hours trying to farm 60K+ by Epic clicking vendor trash mobs. You can make more than 60K in 40-50 hours by doing cash camps like Fungi King.