Shamen Vs. Druids as Soloers

[Darkath]

Hey everyone!

I've been following this and other discussions related to the Shaman as of late, and the class seems quite interesting to me. I wanted to know how realistic is to play the class as a melee class which could take in hits, dishes out damage with melee attacks and spells.

I had thought at first that probably the Sk or the Pally would suit this play style better, so I picked a Troll SK. I quickly found that is was simply impossible to keep up with the damage of mobs or that they just took to long to die, damaging me too much in the process.

My characters are measly geared (I've tried like 3 classes, none of them made it past lvl 14 :P) so I'm not really in a position to twink out a shammy. Give this situation, will I be able to play the shammy as I want to? Or does it really need to be very twinked for him to melee/cast mobs down?

[Skope]

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Hey everyone!

I've been following this and other discussions related to the Shaman as of late, and the class seems quite interesting to me. I wanted to know how realistic is to play the class as a melee class which could take in hits, dishes out damage with melee attacks and spells.

I had thought at first that probably the Sk or the Pally would suit this play style better, so I picked a Troll SK. I quickly found that is was simply impossible to keep up with the damage of mobs or that they just took to long to die, damaging me too much in the process.

My characters are measly geared (I've tried like 3 classes, none of them made it past lvl 14 :P) so I'm not really in a position to twink out a shammy. Give this situation, will I be able to play the shammy as I want to? Or does it really need to be very twinked for him to melee/cast mobs down?

You'd probably need to be twinked well at early levels to melee down mobs. At lvl 39 you get togor's insects which helps mitigate the damage you take. As you get higher in level it gets progressively harder to tank mobs as a shaman if you aren't geared for it.

Is it possible? Absolutely. By the time you reach level 50 you will have time to farm some gear and perhaps pick up some rune etched and it will make your life incredibly easier.