How To Use Torpor

[rohrmj]

Im still learning my Shaman, currently lvl 39, but I keep hearing a lot about this spell and how game changing it is. I was wondering if someone could explain why? How would you use it in a rotation?

Thanks!

[Colgate]

it's just an incredibly mana efficient heal over time

[HalasHermit]

Step 1: Cast Torpor on yourself
Step 2: Spam eat your own face (canni)
Step 3: Chuckle as your health bar doesnt go down but mana bar goes up
Step 4: Profit

[Rathnir]

Torpor heals 300/tick for 4 or 5 ticks, so 1200 or 1500 health, and only costs 200 mana.

The next best heal is Superior Healing which gives 583 health for 250 mana.

For your canni cycle, Superior Heal essentially breaks even, and wouldn't be worth heal, canni, heal. Torpor + Canni, you end up having more health then you spend cannibalizing for the mana to cast it, so you can cannibalize further for your other spells.

It's also terribly funny to cast on someone trying to run from a train.

[fishingme]

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

Torpor heals 300/tick for 4 or 5 ticks, so 1200 or 1500 health, and only costs 200 mana.

The next best heal is Superior Healing which gives 583 health for 250 mana.

For your canni cycle, Superior Heal essentially breaks even, and wouldn't be worth heal, canni, heal. Torpor + Canni, you end up having more health then you spend cannibalizing for the mana to cast it, so you can cannibalize further for your other spells.

It's also terribly funny to cast on someone trying to run from a train.

Don't you need to be grouped with the person you're trying to cast it on?

[mgellan]

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

Don't you need to be grouped with the person you're trying to cast it on?

Yes

Aside from allowing Shammies to regain mana very fast and be excellent backup healers for raids (although I recall more than one tank saying "Let me die unsnared please!") with Torpor you can torpor yourself, pull a bunch of mobs with AOE slow, then root them at your leisure to epic rot. Between the lowered damage output from the slow and the constant 300hp pulses from Torpor makes breaking camps solo much easier... send in the torpored 55 pet to absorb all the HTs before the AOE slow for extra credit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Regards,
Mg

[Darkatar]

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

Yes

Aside from allowing Shammies to regain mana very fast and be excellent backup healers for raids (although I recall more than one tank saying "Let me die unsnared please!") with Torpor you can torpor yourself, pull a bunch of mobs with AOE slow, then root them at your leisure to epic rot. Between the lowered damage output from the slow and the constant 300hp pulses from Torpor makes breaking camps solo much easier... send in the torpored 55 pet to absorb all the HTs before the AOE slow for extra credit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Regards,
Mg

^^All the cookies for you

Costs 400 hp to cast a torp (through canni)

1200hp minimum HP restored per cast, 1500 if you land the torp at primetime (not including 200hp cast fee)

[Yuuvy The Destroyer]

Pretty sure that's where my copy came from.

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

Yes

Aside from allowing Shammies to regain mana very fast and be excellent backup healers for raids (although I recall more than one tank saying "Let me die unsnared please!") with Torpor you can torpor yourself, pull a bunch of mobs with AOE slow, then root them at your leisure to epic rot. Between the lowered damage output from the slow and the constant 300hp pulses from Torpor makes breaking camps solo much easier... send in the torpored 55 pet to absorb all the HTs before the AOE slow for extra credit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Regards,
Mg

All good uses.

[Waedawen]

It's over 1200 hp for 125 mana

It's just simply overpowered. It's pretty much a design/coding mistake. It's the #1 reason why people play Shaman - they require less than zero skill to operate and still have some of the most powerful abilities in the game.

[Pyrocat]

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

It's over 1200 hp for 125 mana

It's just simply overpowered. It's pretty much a design/coding mistake. It's the #1 reason why people play Shaman - they require less than zero skill to operate and still have some of the most powerful abilities in the game.

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