-shaman- I just hit 24! What can I do now?

[Zeonick]

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

I disagree, mostly because I don't hold in with this "you must only play one way attitude" but also, if you have a decent weapon, there is nothing wrong with smacking things in the face.

I just tried root/rotting some Evergreens. Taking into consideration that it takes 3 applications of my best DoT to get it to run, resists and root breaking early it didn't feel any better than me casting Quickness and whacking things. It works better on the Greenwoods of course but they are mostly light blue.

My advice is to find a way that suits you best depending on the situation you are in. For me at the moment tanking with slow + Quickness feels better (although I expect this to change as I get higher).

Yeah I've heard that at 34 your dots are a lot more efficient. I was noticing last night that my dot only does 3% per tick to the higher level giants... I was grouped at the time but that would take like 4-5 applications of my dot to kill one.

[Estu]

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

Yeah I've heard that at 34 your dots are a lot more efficient. I was noticing last night that my dot only does 3% per tick to the higher level giants... I was grouped at the time but that would take like 4-5 applications of my dot to kill one.

DoT, singular? Are you not stacking poison and disease?

[Berendar]

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

DoT, singular? Are you not stacking poison and disease?

The disease DoT available to him does 6 damage a tick for 2 minutes. I haven't bothered with it. Takes far too much time.

[Estu]

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

The disease DoT available to him does 6 damage a tick for 2 minutes. I haven't bothered with it. Takes far too much time.

Heh, when I was coming up, Affliction was bugged and did way more damage. Still, even 6/tick is worthwhile. The DPM is only slightly lower than Envenomed Breath and it's always nice to do extra DPS if it saves you a root.

[Zeonick]

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

Heh, when I was coming up, Affliction was bugged and did way more damage. Still, even 6/tick is worthwhile. The DPM is only slightly lower than Envenomed Breath and it's always nice to do extra DPS if it saves you a root.

I did just notice that affliction takes 75 mana.. that's pretty steep. Over 10% mana for me, and E. breath is only 25 more. I may just stick to using a lower level nuke to take them down that last couple %. Maybe i'll experiment with both and see how it goes.

[Zeonick]

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

DoT, singular? Are you not stacking poison and disease?

Well honestly I didn't know about stacking poison and disease! This is exciting! Haha. I am a shaman noob through and through so tips like this are awesome! True, it does only hit for 6 damage, but the giants are always left with 5-10% hp for me and I have to waste a nuke on them. One application of the disease dot should take care of that.

Also, should I be using the disease debuff spell? Does it make the dots tick Longer or anything? the description on wiki doesnt make any sense to me