Monk or Sham - who utilizes fungi more?

[kaev]

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

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Yep, only my paladin and cleric are epic'd and I'm deeply distressed by the non-epicness of my other alts. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Andyman976]

So is a gfg and fbss decent dps on shaman?

Theoretically , post velious, is there a reason to go troll sham other than jbb?

[DrKvothe]

Originally Posted by Andyman976 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So is a gfg and fbss decent dps on shaman?

Theoretically , post velious, is there a reason to go troll sham other than jbb?

At ~40+, mobs start hitting hard enough that stuff needs to be slowed, and shamans become pretty awesome to have in groups. At 45, you can start clicking jbb and don't need to rely on melee damage anymore. So we're really talking about the levels up to ~40-45, and for most of this lower range warriors and monks won't have the damage bonuses or combat skill advantages that bring their dps out of a shaman's league, especially when we're hasting ourselves. The 34-45 range will be when they'll start to pull ahead and you may consider root/rotting or using a stronger slow or dotting the mob while you melee.

In velious, I'm not sure shamans other than ToV raiders will cap stam self-buffed; I'll need to look at the gear. If not, the huge boost to stam that ogres and trolls get put them ahead of other races at 60 imo. A 60 troll has ~120 more hp than a 60 iksar in the same gear. Frontal stun immunity might be better at 60 than regen, but there probably won't ever be a fight that you lose as a troll where you can say, "damn, if I were an ogre I'd have lived through that". With that in mind, the path to 60 (well, the path to 60 + saving for torpor) is gonna be noticeably easier with racial regen, imo. But with GFG/fungi/FBSS --> JBB --> epic --> torpor, you're going to be OP no matter what race you go with (minus JBB for ikky =P).