Shammy or Chanter?

[Omnimorph]

Who would call their character priapism :| interesting choice of name...

[Cogwell]

Shaman start kicking major ass when they get Torpor (Kunark), and if you're raiding you can get a reagent free Avatar in Velious.

Unless you're charming giants or something, enchanters kinda suck for raiding in Velious - you can't mez anything and lots of stuff was originally extremely magic resistant, so you can't even nuke that well. Playing an enchanter in sebilis may make up for it though - now that's some fun sh*!.

[nicemace]

40 - 50 i was knocking off levels 4 - 5 hours at a time on my ench.

shit was so coin. ended up doing it in like 4 days heh.

[Omnimorph]

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

shit was so coin.

The english language weeps [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But yeah, if you know the right places 40-50 can be a breeze for an ench.

[Extunarian]

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

Who would call their character priapism :| interesting choice of name...

The same person who would make 'post-tits' be their forum image.

Names aside - if you are a barb shaman and want a good low level piercer, look up the 'patch of gnoll fur' quest. It was my first magic weapon and I owned many a wisp with it!

[pickled_heretic]

I think there's an abundance of healers on this server; I've been in several pickup groups with multiples of shamans, druids, and clerics and I've been in many groups that have been starved of their bard/enchanter mana regen love and CC.

[Omnimorph]

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

I think there's an abundance of healers on this server; I've been in several pickup groups with multiples of shamans, druids, and clerics and I've been in many groups that have been starved of their bard/enchanter mana regen love and CC.

If you're hunting in a fairly populated dungeon then there's usually a chanter there who will C you (usually for free) i used to have randoms from other groups running up to me in my group in solb and me C'ing them.

[Zordana]

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

name is (Priapism).

as soon as a GM sees you, you gonna get renamed!

[wangerinlee]

So much hate on the name and avatar, Cmon you know the Post-tits is kinda funny especially for a forum =D. I made it through 5 years on wow with a toon named Priapism, its a great name.

[Reiker]

Others have pretty much nailed it but what it basically comes down to is that Enchanters are much better in classic. Not only are they more fun to play, they're just a better class over all, and basically the most OP class in classic EverQuest. Enchanters and Shaman essentially have the same slow in classic, except Enchanters do it much better with their superior ability to debuff MR. On raids it's going to be a huge pain in the ass keeping up multiple single-target buffs on everyone, depending on how heavily your raid is Shaman stacked. Your healing caps out at Greater Healing which is fairly pathetic. In short, Shaman are a bit underpowered and boring in classic, while Enchanters are very powerful.

This changes a bit in Kunark when Shaman really come into their own with Superior Healing and Turgur's, and later Canni 3 + Torpor. Enchanters stay powerful but don't nearly get the huge power increase that Shaman do, so the classes even out a bit in that expansion.

From Velious on I'd much rather be playing a Shaman. If you can envision a "power chart" in your head, this is where the Enchanter curve starts to drop and the Shaman curve is still increasing from Kunark. Since the server apparently isn't going past Velious, no point in really mentioning past that... but Luclin+ especially into PoP Shaman stay extremely powerful while Enchanters definitely fall into buff bot status.

Obviously play whichever class you want, but if you want the hard facts, you're better off rolling an Enchanter first in classic, and if Kunark is ever released perhaps consider switching over to a Shaman.