Most overrated items

[baub]

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

No, not really. You stop relying on regen once you have torpor. It might still be useful to have, but I'd wear a nice statpiece instead. If you could upgrade other things with cash by then, I'd sell the fungi and buy gear/spells. If I had a fungi on a shaman and hit level 60, I'd immediately sell it and start looking for torpor/malo. Those spells are infinitely more important than +15 regen with poor stats.

Well the brightside is you wouldn't have to sell your fungi to find torpor/malo ;P

Just because you can keep torpor on yourself all the time doesn't mean it is always the correct decision. +15 regen is nothing to scoff at, for me it would take an absolute beast of an item such as CoV to permanently put the fungi on the bench.

[greatdane]

Well, once you have Torpor, you no longer need to slowly regenerate the HP you spend on canni. That's why you won't have much use for fungi when you have Torpor. It changes the playstyle a lot, and it turns the shaman's mana management tool into more like an on-demand Harvest instead of functioning kinda like Lich. You can simply canni down to 50% health, Torpor yourself and it'll take you back to full. You don't need to pay the same kind of attention to your HP/mana balance anymore and you have literally infinite mana as long as you have time to canni five times and Torpor afterwards. That's why you're better off with Trak BP or even planar - the regen style simply stops being relevant once you can recover with Torpor for 200 mana instead. Fungi has terrible stats, after all.

This is also why the higher-level canni spells have a less efficient HP-to-mana ratio and are only really worth using in conjunction with Torpor. Once you can use Torpor instead of regen to balance it out, it becomes better to do fewer canni casts that take/give more HP/mana so you can spend more time on the other things you need to do. As long as you have to slowly regen the HP back at a 30/tick rate or whatever it is, you have to use the smaller cannis and it takes up a lot more of your time.

[Doors]

Not sure what idiot said regen items were overrated, but I took a monk into its 40's solo with a pre nerfed fungi robe. Other monks I talked to solo'd all the way to 50 and did it casually in less than a month. So no, regen is not overrated outside of haste it's like the best melee stat.