Shaman or Enchanter?

[distung]

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

Shaman have 'safer' soloing since they don't have to maintain a charmed pet & can go afk if doing camps and can heal/regen themselves.

Keep this in mind while you make a decision.

This is extremely true. As a enchanter, you can never AFK safely unless you want to find a new pet or die...it's a pain in the ass. It's a bigger deal than you think.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

This is extremely true. As a enchanter, you can never AFK safely unless you want to find a new pet or die...it's a pain in the ass. It's a bigger deal than you think.

Very untrue. 3 minute roots, blurring a mob back to it's spawn point, knowing your way in a dungeon, these things make afking totally realistic and as safe as it is for anyone without fd. Hell, when I'm farming on tecmos, I usually camp out between killing PHs. Tough to get much safer or easier than than.

[Numbers_]

I'm trying to figure this out myself. I have a 23 enchanter and a 30 shaman.

I like the idea of the shaman better. I love to heal/buff people and sow is nice. The shaman group roll seems less stressful than the enchanter (keeping track of mezzed targets, pet breaking charm, etc is harder to me than healing, buffing, doting). I also like being an Iksar. However, soloing right now is painful. I'm really hoping things pick up once I hit level 34 (dog and new dots) otherwise I'm done. I've been told before that 29-34 is the worst stretch tho...please tell me it gets better at 34.

Charm killing on my enchanter is fun and I seem more needed. I get random tells very often on the enchanter for groups. It's a hard decision which is why I keep going back and forth between the two.

[rollin5k]

while the pet does help a bunch its not really game changing, you still have to root or you'll get aggro and slow or pet will die. so the cost of slow is almost as much as another poison dot. usually dog will do more damage than one dot but its still close.

[captnamazing]

yeah what he said!

[Numbers_]

Does the killing speed increase a lot? Cause right now my poison dot only does 22 a tick and my disease does 8 a tick. I'll toss in a 150 damage DD spell and melee the mob occasionally with a poison wind censer, but that's still incredibly low dps at 30. I kill stuff way slower than my enchanter and have more downtime. It's nice being able to heal myself tho.

[rollin5k]

yes the speed does increase because the dots actually start to get good dmg for level as you get higher. never gonna kill faster than a charm pet though. shaman dps not strong suit though really. get a barb spiritist hammer if you're a barb, that would help [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Numbers_]

Ok, thanks for the advice. I'm actually really enjoying the enchanter right now, so I think I may still with him for the time being (just wish I had some jboots, but they cost so much now). I think i'll get more used to the group role as time goes on.

[rollin5k]

Yea, I don't mean to deter you from shaman, just letting you know how it is. Shaman still my favorite, just so bad ass

[Tecmos Deception]

Imo shamans get more stressful than changers at highest levels! Chanter has to maintain some long-duration buffs and cc and manage a pet sure, but sham has to manage more buffs, debuff, help heal, and canni a ton. At least once pull is CCed chanter is usually able to sit and med for a while unless having terrible luck with charm. Every 60 sham I see is CONSTANTLY busy.