Shaman questions

[Cippofra]

Grouping at all can often be a pain and even more so for a healer class that cant heal (until 53). And the server is just full of twinks that think they're only people in the game with a fungi and COF. This results in them believing they deal such massive dps that your group can handle anything. Money cant buy skill

[trukk]

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

Here is a trick I've been using. When sitting, you get +mana from meditation every tick (6 seconds), and inner fire is a 2 second cast. Do the casting dance.. start sitting and wait for your mana to budge up on the meditation tick. Stand, inner fire the person getting hit, immediately sit again. At my current level (18), i get +9 mana a tick, and inner fire costs 10 mana and heals 20. This effectively is like a free 20 regen on your group's tank. It makes a HUGE difference over time. Going from spamming our crappy low heal to the inner fire dance, was the difference from staying LoM / Oom to actually gaining it during normal group play.

Btw, the cast dance between ticks works wonders for the cannibalize line later on. I guess its called the cannidance then. Only cann right after a med tick hits, then you get both.

Quoted for truth.

Back when I played Live 97-2000 (beta- kunark), I never new this trick. Once you get Meditate, you can basically act like a pretty good regen spell on your tank by Fire-Dancing, and not drain much mana at all. Really opened up a new Shaman mechanic to me. Our heal spells are so mana inefficient, but Fire-Dancing is AWESOME!

Have to yell at everyone to remove thier other shield spells (stone skin, reso, etc.), to get the lowbie Inner Fire to stick, but once you prove it to your group they are believers.

-Chris