Malaise making a big difference

[Tecmos Deception]

I'm used to playing a chanter, of course. So I always had everything tashed and never stopped to look into how much of a difference it really made because it just seemed obviously worth doing thanks to the tash spells' low mana costs and short cast times. This time around I'm on a sham, and I hadn't been sure whether malaise spells were worth using. Or when they were worth using and when they weren't. They're significantly more expensive compared to tash, and they're resistable, and they don't even debuff all the resists I hit in a normal exp fight.


Today I'm level 30, killing some level 25 mobs. I have been pulling with malaise, then casting affliction, (recasting malaise if it resisted), then casting envenomed breath a couple times while rooting and medding until my mob is dead.

So of all my malaise and affliction casts, they've been done on a mob 5 levels below me that is not resist debuffed (since I pull with malaise, and malaise doesn't lower disease resist). And for all of my envenomed breath and root casts, they've been done on a mob 5 levels below me that is at -20 poison/disease resist. I've also cast some nukes here or there, again always on a mob -5 levels and at -20 cold resist.

Malaise resists/casts: 13/85
Affliction resists/casts: 8/77
Envenomed breath resists/casts: 1/194
Root resists/casts: 0/175
Spirit strike full resists/casts: 0/45
Frost strike full resists/casts: 0/15


I'm assuming (pretty safely, I think) that Baobob and Chanda Miller don't have heightened disease resistance.

So malaise, the lowliest shaman resist debuff at a mere -20, dropped my resist rate from an average of ~13% to an average of .002%.

And anecdotally, I've probably only had 10-15 roots wear off before their full duration had run its course even though I'm recasting 1 or 2 (1 for chanda and 2 for baobob) envenomed breaths (with a DD component) per fight.



I know the mobs are quite blue and won't resist a ton regardless, but I thought malaise made an interesting enough difference to look into and type up a post about between kills [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]