A look at a non-raid geared shaman in Velious

[Byrjun]

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

If Lodi shield isn't an upgrade for hiero, is it an upgrade for sarnak battle shield?

Nope.

If you want to min/max, go ogre. Push interrupts can be negated by tanking in a corner or just moving forward to reposition yourself (if you start casting at 200 and are pushed to 210, if you walk forward to 199 your spell is likely to go off). The stun immunity can be significant when you're always casting spells, especially when you get bashed at 1 second left of a jbb. That's a lot of wasted time, which is important if you're soloing something tough.

Also, I agree that regen isn't that important once you get Torpor. It's a decent bonus, but I'd rather have raw HP.

I'm going to *try* to stay out of shaman strategy / philosophy discussions though. This thread isn't for that. I've tried in the past, but there's no point because a lot of people aren't likely to change their opinions. All I can do is give my personal experience/advice based on playing a shaman since 2000 and doing all the raid / solo content from classic to GoD.