Solo Barbarian Shaman Stat Allocation

[Danth]

Comparison of lower-end characters continued:

I logged the wife's character on earlier rather than going from memory and her character's unbuffed stats were higher than I recalled; at 175 stamina she can max it out any time she wants simply by using an alchemy potion and switching out her goblin earring. In practice she doesn't bother because it doesn't matter in a duo, but that reduces my earlier comment of "never has maxed it" to technically correct, but effectively wrong insofar as this specific conversation is concerned. Her character was at 1950 HP, 2289 mana, 903 AC unbuffed. 175 stamina, 230-something WIS.

Note again we mostly duo so the mediocre AC is acceptable for her (who needs AC if you aren't getting hit?) but I would recommend more for a dedicated solo'er. On the occasions I log on her character and use it to solo something she does get smacked harder than I'd prefer.

BP/arms/legs are Thurgadin. Only problematic items for a current non-raider would be the epic and the FD ring. She got the epic in 2012 when it was virtually automatic and the FD ring was a (much appreciated) gift from a friend of ours. If I wanted to set it up more for solo'ing about 25-30 more stamina and ~100 display AC would be nice at the cost of trading some of that mana pool away. She was at 105 stamina/wis default. If you took the same character with a stamina focus you'd be at 195 stamina base, still over 3K mana, and have room to up that AC rating a bit for a more solo-oriented focus. Optionally you vcould make the same change entirely with gearing, highlighting that 20 points of a statistic are not a lot either way in this game, and that starting statistics and equipment choice very much inter-mingles.

Danth