The Solo dungeon crawl

[jolanar]

There is this weird idea on the forum about how shamans are some kind of melee class. That's very misleading in my opinion. They are a caster/priest class that can sometimes stand in melee range when a mob is slowed. After like, level 30, your damage will primarily come from dots and your pet. Root is amazing but you will not have the mana to be splitting dungeon rooms with more than 2 mobs without a clicky damage item (jbb or epic), hell even 2 mobs will be very difficult in the lower levels without running out of mana. What shamans can do with a 3 minute root and epic is far far different than what they can before that.

Don't play a shaman if you want a melee class. Also, don't play a shaman if you want a dungeon crawling class that can level up that way.

OP if you want a melee that can dungeon crawl you are really limited to either Monk or Shadowknight.

Obviously an Enchanter or Necromancer will blow both of those class out of the water as far as what dungeons you can crawl solo.