shaman duo

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

On a serious note, would a mage with a woobs (pet) up count as a melee?
Say str sta dex (for splitpaw stun whips) etc add to dps like it does for a player char? Mage pet haste buff is better than shaman haste I think? Slow and heals. Root and chain casting. Many ways to do it.

For 59 out of 60 levels (or a shaman on a budget) healing mana is limited. Stuns are a great way to mitigate incoming dps from a NPC outside slow. The air pet and stun whips especially with a malosini'd mob is a stunlock dream and far more tanky than an earth (unless comparing say the 49 air to the 57 earth). As for stat-buffing I would skip that completely, just slow the npc and let the mage keep their pet hasted with Burnout and DS. Even slowed a 30dmg DS is about 8dps on a npc that doubles. I used to use sham pots when farming chardok.

The spread between a good and bad pet is pretty severe and any pet 39+ regens at 30hp/sec. With a solid root & slow before the pet jumps in it's barely going to need a rest between pulls. Especially with regrowth on it. Plus keeping most your mana can come in handy for burndowns. Chain summoning without C2 is going to slowly take a toll on that ability. The sham can make more mana, IMHO, let them heal the pet and keep those stun whips equipped on a good one.