Quote:
Originally Posted by A1551
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
As Splorf said its all about CH. I love either duo but probably prefer the cleric for leveling (ie playing long periods of time just killing stuff as fast as possible). Would take either happily for trying to kill hard stuff, although I certainly agree the shaman is the most ideal choice at that point. Once you find that perfect pet in the sweet spot for your level and toss him weapons / haste that's basically it for the night, no more finding the best pet, no worry about running outta weapons, and its also a lot harder to die when you've got symbol and hero on all the time. Pocket rezzes are nice, too. Realistically if youre grinding out XP for 8 hours or whatever you're probably going to have a few perfect shitstorms of bad luck where yur gonna be happy to have that +1100 hp from cleric buffs and a pet whos health level is essentially irrelevant all night long, or worst case the immediate rez.
Another obvious reason why the cleric/ench combo is attractive, referring to your original question, is that just because a shaman may be a more ideal duo partner for a chanter, doesn't mean that there is one around to duo 100% of the time! Bottom line there are a lot of clerics with CH around, I seem to recall from the recent population tracking thread that high level clerics are more than twice as common vs shamans.
-Propo Fol
|
What you described seems like a much slower albeit safer XP stream then what I would do. I have little interest in keeping a charmed pet and prefer just eating it when it is low health. Unless of course you are rooting both mobs and then breaking charm before one of them dies to avoid the heavy pet XP penalty, but in that case the cleric is mostly useless.
The mala spell line is invaluable to charming mobs since it not only drastically increases the level of the mobs you can charm, it also provides a very strong safety net. Also, if you are charm farming properly, the server would have to take a very big shit(pardon my language) on you for the enchanter/shaman duo to be in any real danger.
Also, shamans can tank better than clerics(assuming you aren't playing an iksar shaman) and can snap agro away from the enchanter if needed. And if the Shaman is a troll shaman, then you can do a janky fear kite on the side while charm fighting.