Shaman Twink Gear 70kish budget

[loramin]

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

Seeing this a lot but I'm 46 and still meleeing a lot just because my DoTs are way less efficient than just regen + slow tanking with haste on me and my pet. Concrete example (yeti cave DL), root rotting drains my mana 3-4 yetis in while slow tanking allows me to grind through them one at a time endlessly. I have fungi and worn haste though

I'd be curious to see some actual numbers. I'm not saying Shaman at 46 shouldn't tank; face tanking is the best way to handle a lot of mobs.

But I think the important part of face-tanking, just like real tanking, is the tanking part, not the damage dealing part. In other words, if you parse:

• how much damage your poison dots do
• how much damage your disease dots do
• how much damage your pet does
• (how much damage your epic does, if you have it)
• how much melee damage you do

I strongly suspect you will see that your melee damage is a relatively small piece of the overall picture.

Also, with regards to root/rotting using up your mana and tanking not, for one thing I'd imagine you kill much faster when you use DoTs, especially if you also mix-in some dog damage and melee damage (they're not mutually exclusive). So sure you can do endless Yetis without DoTs, but you're only going to kill X yetis an hour that way. Even with med breaks, the DoT way is going to kill Y yetis an hour.

What X and Y actually are does vary based on what you're killing, how you're killing it (as I said, even if you're using DoTs you could tank and/or use pet ... or not), etc. But I suspect Y > X.

Even if not, Y still requires less active playtime, so really it's also a question of playstyle (some people like taking breaks, some don't). Personally if I have the choice of playing for 40 minutes with 20 minutes of break, or playing constantly for 60 minutes, I'd chose the break, but not everyone would.