Evil Shaman Solo Guide 1-56+

[iruinedyourday]

I make a pet with my shaman for only one of two reason, to distract a mob while I break the camp, or to manage a summoning mob.. but 90% of my time as a shaman is with no pet.. People tell me I play it a lot like its an enchanter, but it works for me! I always see them as a caster class that can wear cooler armor way before Id see them as a pet class. Ive never really needed one.

Once you get 5 or 6 goblin nets too, you wont need a pet for breaking like 90% of the camps out there.

Edit* OK a 3rd reason would be to RP having a pet dog.

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[Lamil]

This has been a great guide/read. I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for making some PP and or XP at 53. I haven't played him in about a year but I was hoping to try to save up to get his epic and what not. Lguk sounds like it would be pretty tough without Epic. Anyone have any off the wall spots that might be good?

[iruinedyourday]

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

This has been a great guide/read. I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for making some PP and or XP at 53. I haven't played him in about a year but I was hoping to try to save up to get his epic and what not. Lguk sounds like it would be pretty tough without Epic. Anyone have any off the wall spots that might be good?

I cant give you anything but the best vanilla spots in the world!

53-60 is my all time favorite leveling on the shaman.

I spent a lot of time 53-57 bouncing between the Captain camp in Karnors - its a great spot cus its easy to get to, camped like only 50% of the time, and if thigns go bad there is easy access to the zoneline. It also has easy access to many other players XPing so yu can get clarlity pretty easily and or cleric buffs. As you level up and get practice, it has exactly enough mobs available for you to solo & time out all the spawns in the entire camp.. AND its not easy at ALL to steel mobs from your camp, cus you basically have to pull them through you, as there is only one access or pathing rout to kite the mobs to another camp.

My next and most beloved spot to level is in SolB. You can get deep into the bats and bugs area, and camp near where the guano paths towards the zone to SolA. Its a fantastic spot that only attracts mature good everquesters.. so everyone you meet there youll enjoy duo'ing with and chattnig about classic EQ... once you get to level 57 there things start to turn green and ist time to make your way to the lillypads, and learn how to camp the Freeti Trash.. The freeti trash got me through 59 in 9 hours of solo grinding 3 days, in 3 hour spurts. It was so fun. Its a great spot and each camp break is really easy once you figure out how to time the pathers and where not to stand etc.

Start by killing the 2 guards at the lillpyads, then kill the pather at the base/mouth of the cave, then move in and use goblin nets to root the 3 at the next platform and kill them, then pull the 2 out of the way merbs.. then move up the ramp towards freeti area and then back down to the mout of the cave as everything starts spawning again.

Handly my favorite leveling spot in the game.

Once you get 60, go farm tranix and sit uppon the crown as the king of SOLB! like all shamans should.

[Lamil]

Haha excellent. Thanks! This stuff considered doable without epic though?

[iruinedyourday]

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

Haha excellent. Thanks! This stuff considered doable without epic though?

yikes no not at all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I suggest working primarily on getting your epic, 99% of the fun of a shaman is using it to solo!!!

[Swish]

If you're looking to get one MQ'ed before the changes get made, send colcelot a PM, he's reasonably priced compared to some sellers... mention SWISH2 and he might give you a discount [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lamil]

Yea I've seen but I don't have that kinda cash. Guess I need to find some PP camps first.
Thanks for the tips guys!

[iruinedyourday]

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

Yea I've seen but I don't have that kinda cash. Guess I need to find some PP camps first.
Thanks for the tips guys!

its so easy! just start going through the quest, you can do everything in one day SOLO (especially at 53 omg!) up to the black dire...

for the black dire, the advisor spawns every 6 hours, so if its down, just wait and hang out and PL newbs and camp the Namdes in there for fun.. all you need is ONE melee class to duo it with your greater healing spell. I duoed it with a 60 monk when I was in my 40s.

after the black dire you can head to city of mist, and just hang out and buff people while you collect books and turn them in to the spirit dog outside of the zone in EJ.

Then all you need to do is get a decent level 60 tank/healer and or a bunch of pals and go kill the final boss.

But for the most part 90% of the quest is easy and totaly soloable in your 30s or even lower (except you run the risk of getting killed by random merbs while you travel around etc) and then 5% of it is black dire and the other is the final fight.

I forgot to hit enter when I left for vacation this weekend and just sat back down. /sigh back to work [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lamil]

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

its so easy! just start going through the quest, you can do everything in one day SOLO (especially at 53 omg!) up to the black dire...

for the black dire, the advisor spawns every 6 hours, so if its down, just wait and hang out and PL newbs and camp the Namdes in there for fun.. all you need is ONE melee class to duo it with your greater healing spell. I duoed it with a 60 monk when I was in my 40s.

after the black dire you can head to city of mist, and just hang out and buff people while you collect books and turn them in to the spirit dog outside of the zone in EJ.

Then all you need to do is get a decent level 60 tank/healer and or a bunch of pals and go kill the final boss.

But for the most part 90% of the quest is easy and totaly soloable in your 30s or even lower (except you run the risk of getting killed by random merbs while you travel around etc) and then 5% of it is black dire and the other is the final fight.

I forgot to hit enter when I left for vacation this weekend and just sat back down. /sigh back to work [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've done the quest up to just before Dire Wolf and also did the pages a few times while leveling in COM but also did the beginning turn in of the quest a few times for faction. Fear is where I'm kind of getting stuck at the moment.

Also thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread, one of the most helpful ones on these boards.

[Krule]

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

for the black dire, the advisor spawns every 6 hours, so if its down, just wait and hang out and PL newbs and camp the Namdes in there for fun.. all you need is ONE melee class to duo it with your greater healing spell. I duoed it with a 60 monk when I was in my 40s.

I have heard he hits pretty hard and that a tank or cleric is required. But if this is true I will just snag a melee buddy and do it up.

How geared was your monk friend? I tried duo'ing with another shaman and our wolves. We tried to lev trick to get on the hill above where he spawns. We died a swift death.

Want my boots. =/