the age old rivalry

[Daldaen]

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

Can we all agree Vah Shir are the worst shaman?

Can't even wear fungi tunic.

Thanks.

They just wore Lunar Fungus Tunics like the good shamans.

But yea, Iksar shaman is the master combination in Luclin/PoP for sure. Dat regen and baller status look.

[Something'Witty]

I started a troll shm (for the regen and clicky snare neck) on Fippy, and then race changed to Ogre during SoL or PoP. I can tell you with 100% certainty that frontal stun immunity did cut down on interrupts. In fact, it made a HUGE difference. I am not saying there was any content that I could not do as a troll that I could do as an ogre, just that the frequency of interrupts was greatly reduced after I switched to an ogre.

The caveat is that this was on Fippy, and the casting mechanics on P99 are different.

[gobbosnobbo]

You can still be interrupted by stuns as an ogre, you just don't get stunned. Try it, stand against a wall, and if a monster bashes you while casting, it will have a chance of interrupting the spell you're on, even though you don't move, or are pushed.

Additionally, its also about optimization. A mob only bashes what, every 52 seconds when slowed? Not worth the loss in regen or snare neck.

Troll all the way

[Malrubius]

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

You can still be interrupted by stuns as an ogre, you just don't get stunned. Try it, stand against a wall, and if a monster bashes you while casting, it will have a chance of interrupting the spell you're on, even though you don't move, or are pushed.

Additionally, its also about optimization. A mob only bashes what, every 52 seconds when slowed? Not worth the loss in regen or snare neck.

Troll all the way

^this, but really just play what you want. Any Shammy is deadly.

I find that my Ogre Shadow Knight is constantly getting interrupted. That made it easy for me to choose Troll when I rolled my Shammy alt. Free "innate Fungi Tunic" by 60, what's not to like?

And if my Ogre SK happens to have a corner handy (he often doesn't), then that helps a little on the interruptions, but that's true with any race. He still gets interrupted plenty.

[Cecily]

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

^this, but really just play what you want. Any Shammy is deadly.

I find that my Ogre Shadow Knight is constantly getting interrupted. That made it easy for me to choose Troll when I rolled my Shammy alt. Free "innate Fungi Tunic" by 60, what's not to like?

And if my Ogre SK happens to have a corner handy (he often doesn't), then that helps a little on the interruptions, but that's true with any race. He still gets interrupted plenty.

I remember grouping with this de sk at LCY who insisted on pulling every mob into a corner. I hated that guy.

[hammertime7795]

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

I remember grouping with this de sk at LCY who insisted on pulling every mob into a corner. I hated that guy.

kinda silly for an sk they can channel through quite a bit. unless he had like 12 mobs on him then he should corner them

[Daldaen]

In fairness, red isn't worth testing anything on with the amount of custom code they have.

[Widan]

Oh yea there was also that weird pvp code that gave each melee hit a 5% chance to interrupt a spell, not sure if Haynar took it out last patch or not, but I guess bash could interrupt from that as well.

[hammertime7795]

Furthermore bash will often interrupt any caster even if it does not stun them. The two components of bash seem to be completely separate rolls

[Widan]

That is not how it worked in classic or how it works here. Unless you have any evidence to post I'm not sure why you keep posting misinformation.

Literally no one would make an Ogre Shaman if bash worked the way you claim.