Dr00d and ShamWOW

[loramin]

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

1425 dmg over 1.5 minutes (15 ticks) = 95dmg/tick average

It starts off slow but ramps up respectably

You are absolutely right, my apologies. Unfortunately my calculator app doesn't keep a log, so I have no idea how I messed up a simple two number calculation, but clearly I did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Revised Numbers

Plague: 22/tick
EBolt: 146/tick
Total: 168/tick

Epic: 95/tick (again, on average because of that slope)
Epic as percentage of non epic damage: 57%

So yeah, 57% > 15%. Epic is definitely better than I said.

BUT I still maintain that it absolutely isn't necessary, because I leveled to 60 on live (and I can't remember what level here, but definitely well past 45) just fine without it.

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

I think I am leaning towards druid. Like I said in the OP it is for solo play, if I am grouping I am usually on another toon. I feel solo for Shaman is either slow tanking or root rotting. Druid can kite, quad kite, charm animals, fear animals, root rot(not as well but still viable, or does that not continue in later levels?)

Thanks for all the replies :-)

Sounds like you found your class [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Druids are an excellent starting class in this era of EQ.

The one correction I'd make is that Shaman also have one other play style: pet tanking. So it's more like both classes can root/rot (Shaman can better), both can animal charm (but Shaman only get one crappy animal charm spell so Druids can way better), Shaman can pet tank (Druids sort of could with a charmed pet but why do that when you can charm fight?), only Shaman can face tank and only Druids can quad kite.