Evil Shaman Solo Guide 1-56+

[BlkCamel]

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

Firstly, thank you for the awesome guide, and the great conversation that followed. Learned as much from the convos as I did from the guide itself!

I've got some questions regarding most mana efficient/quickest way to level at 17 (Iksar low key twinked). I'm currently in Kurns, and most of the first floor is green now, so i've come up to the second floor to pull to the spiral stairs where no skellys pat. The Lesser Ice Bone guys are yellow/even to me now, and I can only take them if i burn them all the way down with Spirit Strike (which is clearly very inefficient because It takes down to like 25%m). With the Greater Skeletons, which are DB con, I have been DoT'ng with Tainted Breath, slowing, and just meleeing them down, but I can only do about 2 before I have to either heal myself back up, which then makes me need to med. Am I missing something here, or is this the most efficient way to do this?

Also, I cannot imagine doing 19 here as well. Any other spots I can go to that might be better, or is this it?

Thanks

You are doing it right, I would use sicken, tainted breath and walking sleep. Can use Walking sleep until you are 34. When you get affliction can add that in. I never nuked unless it was high con like you said or a caster. You can head out if you want but its not much better when you lose the ZEM of Kurns. I would stick it out to 19 before leaving. If you want can head towards Oasis now for crocs and undead but make sure you have your spells.

Can try entrence to Najena if you want some extra ZEM or in lavastorm there should be some mobs to kill.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Grobb 1999]

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

You are doing it right,

lol wut? there are a lot of spots at 17 and kurns is not it. I have to say your 'evil shaman solo guild' is 10% -ok- info and 90% Internet trash.

I'm going to post after work today (where i have gone) only because this is like the 3rd misguided nonsense I've heard/read here and in game concernin where to lvl from this guid.

[BlkCamel]

Originally Posted by Grobb 1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lol wut? there are a lot of spots at 17 and kurns is not it. I have to say your 'evil shaman solo guild' is 10% -ok- info and 90% Internet trash.

I'm going to post after work today (where i have gone) only because this is like the 3rd misguided nonsense I've heard/read here and in game concernin where to lvl from this guid.

Sorry you feel this way, there are blue and even and yellow cons in Kurns to a level 17. The XP bonus this zone gives is about as good as it gets. I don't see how you can argue against it being an efficient solo spot where the per kill XP needs to be maximized since you are not doing volume like a group. Unrest may be comparable exp but is way more overcrowded then Kurns and more dangerous.

[DrKvothe]

Ok...well a lot of people have found this guide to be useful and more accurate than any other shaman resource for this server. Especially as a money making tool.

As for low level killing, I think that nukes have a greater effective mana efficiency than disease dots. Shortening fights means a lot of extra mana regen. I was med-jousting at those levels: take a big, slow 2h weapon, poison dot and root the mob, and alternate between stepping in to hit it and stepping back and sitting for regen ticks. Your delay effectively becomes 6 seconds, but so does the monster's, so you actually win out in terms of damage dealt/taken if you use a high damage/high delay weapon. Since you're hitting all your med ticks (literally all), you've got enough mana for an extra nuke. Since you're setting your enemy's attack speed with jousting, you don't need to waste mana on slow.

[qinsteel]

My 2 cents: I just recently leveled my IKS SHM in Kurns from 12 - thru 17 and found the time to be very good, as you get to 17 there are a lot more greens than blue and the yellows resisted too much to make it worth while. At times it was very crowded but FoB is always available and provided many blues. For an IKS its the place to be, for an Ogre, Troll or Barb not sure its worth the trip there but I dont have the experience to make another suggestion. As to the guide, It is a great place to start, I have noticed that people have made modification and suggestions to the guide and I believe that was Blkcamel's intention. I personally have enjoyed trying out the suggestions. I would not consider it trash but a starting place, its your adventure go where you want and don't take in one persons account but read up on all the guides and find out for yourself.

[Rage1999]

Awesome guide thanks for putting in the time =)

[Noren]

Lvl 16 atm, following your guide.

some advices :
- Create your Char, pop in Oggok, ask a high lvl player who is killing Oggok guards (there is always someone doing that) to let you loot a shield and a weapon that you can use.
Ask him if you can loot an extra weapon / shield to sell for your spells.

- User inner fire to heal.

- I killed snakes in SRO lvl 8 to 9. Lots of blue.

Will update as I lvl up.

[Noren]

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

Lvl 16 atm, following your guide.

some advices :
- Create your Char, pop in Oggok, ask a high lvl player who is killing Oggok guards (there is always someone doing that) to let you loot a shield and a weapon that you can use.
Ask him if you can loot an extra weapon / shield to sell for your spells.

- User inner fire to heal.

- I killed snakes in SRO lvl 8 to 9. Lots of blue.

Will update as I lvl up.

Lvl 20 now.

So I did Kurns Tower up to lvl 19, it was fast and had no problem finding blue mobs.

Start to slow at 19 but if you go outside the tower in Field of bone there is plenty of blue mobs. I hit lvl 20 there.

I'm now in Oasis, deepwater croc are good exp and easy to kill.

[reppa]

requesting more level 30-45 solo areas pls.

Loads of goods spots but I keep having a memory laps. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] halp!

[Tann]

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

requesting more level 30-45 solo areas pls.

Loads of goods spots but I keep having a memory laps. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] halp!

34-40+ mines of nurga (pras Swish for the idea)

Exit tunnel has 5 single goblin spawns and 1 dual spawn. Most are casters, but that is not an issue since the narrow tunnel with lots of corners let's you root rot and get out of LoS. *healer mobs will not heal if they don't have LoS on you*

Send in pet to eat dots/dd/ht, then something like malo - disease - poison - root (since you'll have threat after dots and can position mob) - move around corner and call off pet. Until 39 you'll need 2 poison dots.

Nice xp, OK drops (salts) and +chardok faction for those nice velious quests. I at most saw 4-5 ppl ever in the zone when I did 34-40.