Shaman Race Question - Velious Era-

[Pane_AK]

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

Anybody able to gimme a quick rundown on why Iksar Shaman are great in Velious? I've seen it mentioned in multiple threads now but never expanded on.

AC is very important in velious. Mobs have a higher attack.
Iksar have an AC bonus. Also, iksars are not excluded from wearing any (for the most part at least) items that other race shamans can wear.

[koros]

The age old debate. I'd say iksar or troll is best. Frontal stun immunity isn't much vs mobs that land a bash once a min (slowed + misses).

Regen is passive and always there. It's literally like built in FT for shaman, especially leveling up. Iksar ac bonus is nice. JBB is 33 dps sustained, which is also nice, even at 60. It's definitely solid for farming/adding dps in groups.

[Ashenden]

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

The age old debate. I'd say iksar or troll is best. Frontal stun immunity isn't much vs mobs that land a bash once a min (slowed + misses).

Regen is passive and always there. It's literally like built in FT for shaman, especially leveling up. Iksar ac bonus is nice. JBB is 33 dps sustained, which is also nice, even at 60. It's definitely solid for farming/adding dps in groups.

Yeah I know it's been debated in to the ground (and I've read all of them, still have no personal decision yeesh), not really wanting people to go through it again here. I was only curious specifically about why Iksar Shaman is great in Velious (and PvP), thought maybe they had meaningful stuff other races couldn't equip or something along those lines.

[koros]

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

Yeah I know it's been debated in to the ground (and I've read all of them, still have no personal decision yeesh), not really wanting people to go through it again here. I was only curious specifically about why Iksar Shaman is great in Velious (and PvP), thought maybe they had meaningful stuff other races couldn't equip or something along those lines.

I just rolled a troll. I think JBB is more useful than the AC bonus. Also you get OT hammer and snare neck or undead fear neck as a troll...

That said. If the iksar ac bonus actually works then Iksar would conceivably be able to solo the hardest mobs, solo. In practice I'd think the odds of a small ac bump making that much of a difference are probably pretty low.

[Karok]

Has anyone tried using
http://wiki.project1999.com/Ball_of_Golem_Clay
At the OT outpost as a kos char(barb sham or iksar) to then turn in braids? I read skelly illusion gets enough faction to do it and for us new folks without acess to AoN would it work? This is red where puppet strings are hard to come by.