Druid and Shaman soloing

[bwe]

For the trolls: at lower levels (~20) how efficient is ghetto fear kiting with Flash of Light / Regent Symbol of Innoruuk compared to root rotting? I tried out fear kiting in SK last night and it surprisingly worked really well, but I'm not sure if it's work it mana/time wise.

[liveitup1216]

i almost entirely solo'd my shaman from 1-50 on p99 as a barb.

1-14: everfrost -> blackburrow farming fangs

14-19: soloing in unrest with some rotting/meleeing

19-27: or 28 i forget, saben in lfay sometimes til like 21-22 then all south karana soloing

29-36: killed wood elf rangers in lfay, started camping ancient croc in guk from 34-36

36-44: i really dont remember what i did here, i think just grouping in lguk/solb, i duo'd with a monk in lguk from like 40-46 i think for retarded fast exp, 45 took like two or three hours or something absurd

44/46-49: solo'd dorfs in butcher, slowed down alot at 49 so i just randomly grouped it to 50

this was all pre-kunark launching here

edit: first toon here, someone passing by when i was level 3 gave me a fine steel spear and 20 plat and it was all fun from there, wish i remembered that person's name.

[quido]

Root-rotting is for when you feel like being lazier. Kiting a mob is more mana efficient, especially if you can manage to sit for some of the med ticks. If you are industrious about sitting for med ticks (it can be confusing sometimes with how numbers jump around) it is an incredible amount of mana.

The golden age for shamans starts at 24 with whatever poison dot that is. If the stuff you're killing is wasting your mana from root resists, you should probably consider kiting.

[liveitup1216]

A big part of increasing my efficiency while just sticking to lazy root rotting was macroing most of my spells. With latency in this game, and depending on your own connection quality, you can /sit before the cast is even completed.

Especially with canni or heals/dots, whats cannis cast time? 2.0? 1.8? i forget, but i know i have my macro set to /cast canni, /wait 1.2, /sit.

gets you medding faster after each canni or whatever spell cast if you force it to sit like half a second before the cast is even up.

[douglas1999]

Once you're high enough to click a jbb, soloing on a shaman becomes hilariously easy. I run around outside karnor's rooting\JBBing basically every non-casting mob. I only use mana to root them (lvl 14 root no less) and heal myself from the occasional slip up. When you spam a jbb its only slightly slower than the damage rate of a dot, but its twice as powerful as envenomed bolt, costs no mana, and it lasts as many "ticks" as it takes to kill the mob =p