Thinking of making a shaman

[guineapig]

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

i'm not sure Illusion:Ogre provides the same benefit, although it might...

It definitely should not. And as far as I know it doesn't on this server and never has.

[quido]

Barbarians are all that is good and pure in this forsaken realm.

[Phelp]

Illusion Ogre provided frontal immunity to melee stun on live.

[Weekapaug]

With the exception of a troll I played once, my shaman (plural) have all been barbarians and I wouldn't have it any other way.

The only problem I've ever run into with that is if you ever try to play a barb warrior after playing a barb shaman forever.....You feel like you are tanking with your shaman. I've never had that problem with different classes of other races.

[guineapig]

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

Illusion Ogre provided frontal immunity to melee stun on live.

Do you have anything to support this theory? I played an enchanter on live and have never heard of such a thing.

This was basically an EQ urban legend.

[Estu]

By the way, Ogres also get immunity to spell interrupts from the front via melee, along with the stun immunity from the front from bashing. Very handy.

[Messianic]

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

With the exception of a troll I played once, my shaman (plural) have all been barbarians and I wouldn't have it any other way.

The only problem I've ever run into with that is if you ever try to play a barb warrior after playing a barb shaman forever.....You feel like you are tanking with your shaman. I've never had that problem with different classes of other races.

I can sympathize playing a barb b/c of the ease of finding less weighty gear early on, or for faction reasons (far more places you can safely hunt or quest), but troll/iksar regen is too enticing to me, especially with how fast innate regen increases from 50-60.

I've also been considering going shaman (it's the fad nowadays apparently), and Troll will probably be it.

[Overcast]

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

With the exception of a troll I played once, my shaman (plural) have all been barbarians and I wouldn't have it any other way.

The only problem I've ever run into with that is if you ever try to play a barb warrior after playing a barb shaman forever.....You feel like you are tanking with your shaman. I've never had that problem with different classes of other races.

I'm doing the opposite. I played a Barb Warrior on Combine, and now I think my Shaman is a tank.

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[Reiker]

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

By the way, Ogres also get immunity to spell interrupts from the front via melee, along with the stun immunity from the front from bashing. Very handy.

Stun immunity doesn't work as well on EQEmu as live. However also consider that ogres get the best shaman stats in the game (I'd definitely take one over an iksar).

[ammut]

JBB.... enough said [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]