Shaman Utility Items

[loramin]

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

the post backing up your claim is just nonsense.

/sigh It was not my claim. As I wrote:

Originally Posted by Loramin

One of them (I think maybe the broom) is supposed to be the best, and the shovel is supposed to be second best, but personally I'm still using my shovel at 57. It gives back at least 95%, if not 100%, of the pet's mana cost, so I've never seen any reason to switch from it.

My "claim" was that the shovel was just fine, and the rest was (as I indicated) hearsay. Furthermore, if you look at the thread I linked, that hearsay came from a Fire Giant and was immediately backed up by Yumyums (a planar protector/forum legend), so I think it was perfectly reasonable for me to reference it.

[Daldaen]

Oh yea!

SoW Boots from Black Dire! Forgot about those. Instant self sow works to remove GCD in outdoor zones, functions as a junk buff, works to SoW you mana free/never loading the spell.

And correct. DEX buff increases your proc rate. I think it's something like 2 Procs per minutes with swings from mainhand at 255 DEX.

So this means if you swing 10 times a minute you will proc roughly every fifth swing or 20% of your swings. However if you slow yourself so that you are only swinging 6 times a minute... You are still going to be procing 2 times per minute that doesn't change. It just increases the likelihood each swing will proc because there are less swings. To the tune of every third swing procs or 33% of swings.

[Zulen]

Is the post nerf Fungi Covered Great Staff worth buying for leveling? I figure i would have to keep it equipped as well since it only lasts 5 min and swapping out wisdom items to increase my max mana in those 5 min doesn't seem worth it

[Daldaen]

I feel like the staff is good from 35-50ish. After that though it's sort of weak once shamans get Regrowth. It is mana free... But is it worth it's cost :/.

[loramin]

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

But is it worth it's cost :/.

I think this is the key thing about the staff: it's not that it's not useful, it's just that for the price it's less useful than many other items. So if you've already got a JBB/epic/Fungi/shovel/good pants/ 2x platinum wedding rings/etc. and you still have plat to burn then the staff might be worth it, but otherwise you should probably buy one of those items instead.

[DrKvothe]

I remember that thread, and you're citing it way out of context. For example, see Yumyums post here (later in the thread): http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=17

[loramin]

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

I remember that thread, and you're citing it way out of context. For example, see Yumyums post here (later in the thread): http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=17

So Yumyums cracked a joke, but didn't in any way refute anything, and this shows I took the thread out of context how exactly?

[DrKvothe]

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

So Yumyums cracked a joke, but didn't in any way refute anything, and this shows I took the thread out of context how exactly?

The whole thing was a joke, including what you posted. Broom > the rest as a matter of what the poster feels a shaman should banish his dog with. Yumyums post just explained the joke most explicitly.

"One of them (I think maybe the broom) is supposed to be the best, and the shovel is supposed to be second best, but personally I'm still using my shovel at 57. It gives back at least 95%, if not 100%, of the pet's mana cost, so I've never seen any reason to switch from it."

You suggest that the items may be functionally different from one another, which is not what the post you referenced was actually saying. That's how you cited it out of context.

Wrench, you've polluted every thread you post in, including this one, with snarky bullshit attacks on one or more posters. And yes I'm pissed off at you for trolling the shit out of my thread on Red; I ask a genuine question about social conventions on the server and you turn it into RnF.

[Wrench]

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

And yes I'm pissed off at you for trolling the shit out of my thread on Red; I ask a genuine question about social conventions on the server and you turn it into RnF.

trolled the shit out of? you had a problem with a group mate and wanted to wait till he was low on hp to one shot pk em, i told you to man up and actually say somethin to him first

mine was actually the best advice you got in that thread your just to hypersensitive to realize it

leave red and seek help irl

[DrKvothe]

If you're level 42, you'll probably travel near all of the places for Tarton's Wheel quest eventually. Any class can do this quest, although it's obviously easier for porting classes. The instant clicky from inventory is a great indoor/outdoor GCD resetter without the annoying effects of spyglass (or telescope, as Wrench likes to call it? isn't it nice to never be wrong?) There's no buff for protecting against dispel, and you have to have a target when you cast it, but unlike the other options its free. I use it on my druid and like it a lot more than my shaman's spyglass.

IVU, Shrink, Cure Poison/Disease pots are all worth considering. Keep a bag full of MR gear; you'll use it on raids but it's also handy if you wanna try to solo a caster mob (canni 2 shaman powder, for example).

Don't worry too much about the tash stick. Jousting or slow-tanking to land tash is almost certainly going to cost you more mana from hp loss, missed med ticks, and slowing yourself or the mob than you'd save from recasting a resisted spell. This is a very important strat at 60 when you've got Torpor and you're slow-tanking mobs anyways. Keep torpor up, slow mob, whack it with tash stick.