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Originally Posted by zelld52
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Did I misunderstand what you said here? You want Torpor up all the time. Torpor is 200 mana. Shaman need to cannibalize to get mana.
I'm just not understanding
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You are not understanding because you are interested in trying to "gotcha" me. Nowhere in that sentence do I say "You should not have Torpor up all the time". I said "Torpor/Cannibalize" to express the concept of using the HP from Torpor to Cannibalize. However, I agree I should have just said "Cannibalize" for absolute clarity. I can see why you might have thought "Torpor/Cannibalize" meant that I was including Torpor as a spell to not always cast. That was not my intent. You should always have Torpor up if you are able to.
Did you just ignore this part?
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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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As a quick example https://youtu.be/oPxeOVuX0G8?feature=shared&t=745 - This video starts at 12:25. Between 12:25 and 12:33 I take 776 damage from Ionat and I was Cannibalizing, which was another 148 damage. In 8 seconds I took 924 damage while the mob was slowed. That is 35% of my total HP pool at 2620 life in 8 seconds, with buffs and raid gear. What if this damage spike occurred while you were in the middle of casting Torpor, and Torpor got interrupted? You could be taking 1500 damage or so total without Torpor. I've had bad luck like that happen before. It's simply not worth it to risk dying on a long fight like Ionat. You waste way more time dying than simply playing it safe and extending the fight a few minutes. |
The context of this part should have made it clear as to what I was saying. Taking a lot of damage in a short period of time means that you sometimes need to use Torpor to heal yourself, rather than exclusively using it for Cannibalize. This means you are not Cannibalizing, and can use that time for something else. If you get interrupted in the middle of recasting Torpor, you will not have it on for the next 6 seconds. That is not me suggesting you shouldn't have Torpor up all the time. However, the reality is sometimes you may not have Torpor on due to interrupts or fizzles. This is why you need to be tactical in using Cannibalize, instead of just assuming you can spam it all the time simply because you have Torpor as a spell.