Shaman duo partner questions...

[Fishbait]

Just to throw some information out there, the shm(me), is only wearing a fungi as my only notable item, most other pieces are Jaundiced for the flat AC and +4 to +6 wis pieces filling in other slots. The monk is basic EC geared, fbss, AC/SS dual combo, Black Panther filling in most slots, along with other ac/str items(Spider fur cloak, etc).

One immediate bonus I can tell is in the shm/nec duo is, not having my epic isn't hurting us as it doesn't stack with splurt, according to my wiki research, so i'm taking that with a grain of salt.

That free missing epic DPS on every single pull with a monk/shm duo seemed like a pretty heavy weight to me and with the reaaaaally high cost of the Child's Tear MQ now(wish I bought it when it was 28k or whatever) means i'm saving all funds for an immediate Torpor instead which realistically isn't too far off, with fungi as collateral and current funds and 5 levels to go, should be memorizing Torpor into the spell book as soon as I ding 60.

The biggest boon to me so far, as Raev pointed out, has been Shadowbond's 125 hp/tick, it's basically Torpor light and the Nec can keep it running which leaves me free for slow pulling and rolling buffs/regrowth without ever having mana issues, which to be fair, when the monk pulled I didn't really have mana issues either as I was basically med'ing the entire time and canni dancing(which I despise, why won't server ticks synchronize properly!!!!! /endrant).

All in all, glad we went with the Nec/shm duo and we are killing at a noticeably quicker rate. And if we ever do enter the raid scene won't be hard to catch the monk up to par, at least right now the nec is upfront'ing more power and synergy for the duo.