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Old 04-19-2013, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by SirAlvarex [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Cazic is undead fear, so he can fear kite. The mob be running fast, so that's why he mentioned pathing being important.

A Shaman will edge out a cleric on soloing (as the maths have shown) on undead fights, but they also get the advantage of not *having* to target undead mobs only. Plus they get the advantage of a Fungi tunic being "free" regen to increase their kill rate, while the cleric can only rely on a manastone to do so (and in old world zones).

I've seen a Cleric with a Manastone basically chain pull mobs in Lower Guk, so that is some serious awesomeness when used correctly. But the typical case Shaman > Cleric. But the point still stands, Cleric is better than most think.

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As for the question on what would happen if Nilbog and Rogean just "F you all", well, they'd say "F you all" and run their own private server. During a rather...tense...time on the server that was thrown out as a "warning" to all the entitled players. They'd be more than happy to take their project offline and just use it as a sandbox for their friends.

So basically to answer your question, tomorrow the server could be offline and there's nothing that could be done with it. But that hasn't happened in 4+ years, so it's unlikely. Until that day does come (history says it will someday), just enjoy yourself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Actually spectres are pretty slow, so not having snare isn't too much of a problem.
Shaman also gets better equipment in regards to being more efficient solo, such as fungi to help with regen, epic and jbb for free dps.

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It's Innoruuk for the snare necklace, the problem for the shaman there is it has a long cast time and it only lasts ~6 ticks. If he has to recast VotS twice he'll have to resnare at least twice if not 3 times.
Actually the real problem for the shaman with that strategy is that the effectiveness of DOTS is significantly reduced, doing 2/3 damage only. A feared mob still receives full damage from dots.
Last edited by Lojik; 04-19-2013 at 09:06 AM.. Reason: adding in response for swishy