Shamen Vs. Druids as Soloers

[Taluvill]

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

Negative, the mob will interrupt its casting and immediately try to reach LoS. If its rooted it just stops casting until you enter LoS again. So as long as your cast time was < the mobs cast time, you shouldnt ever get hit.

This was exactly my point when I was talking with Jeremy about it.

Now, in theory it seems like it would work... But saying shit is a lot easier than actually doing it. I will probably go try in full resist gear in a few days or so, but it's half suicide, because if you get a bad root break, your fucked. He'll chain stun you so hard you wont be able to move.

It's definitely plausible on paper.

I do tend to agree with Jeremy though.
Soloing Indoors>> Shaman.
Soloing outdoors>>>Druid.
Take away the Shamans pet? We're on damn near equal footing indoors I do believe, if only because most strats we'd use are the same, and snare really doesn't change a whole lot indoors, other than a few more seconds of reaction time. Malo just makes a shamans life easier, and a shamans slow is just like a druids snare indoors, a few seconds more of reaction time, because I don't see a shaman meleeing down a mob in Lguk. And Jeremy, Yes, you are an exception.

Edit: Most mobs you want to farm are indoors. This is true. In Kunark, a lot of things are indoors, but zones like Karnors (IIRC, dont hate) and CoM are outdoors, where a druids stuns and other useful spells will work. Kunark+Druid is a lot more viable than you'd imagine Jeremy, although I know you haven't played it before.

Double Edit @ Ax: Ax, you wouldn't ever Root/Rot the Ghoul Arch-Magi, unless you want to 13 dmg a tick dot him to death. Things like Drifting death and Drones, and even Immolate I believe have a cast time that is MUCH too high to try and combat his cast time with. What ou would do, is load an older DD like Combust, and just root/nuke the fuck out of him. He is placed in a hallway, and you would snare/root and play the corners effectively IMO. Get a Drifting off if you can manage, but I think he would cast IMMEDIATELY when he sees you, and a computers reaction time is Instant.