A look at a non-raid geared shaman in Velious

[Byrjun]

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

If Lodi shield isn't an upgrade for hiero, is it an upgrade for sarnak battle shield?

Nope.

If you want to min/max, go ogre. Push interrupts can be negated by tanking in a corner or just moving forward to reposition yourself (if you start casting at 200 and are pushed to 210, if you walk forward to 199 your spell is likely to go off). The stun immunity can be significant when you're always casting spells, especially when you get bashed at 1 second left of a jbb. That's a lot of wasted time, which is important if you're soloing something tough.

Also, I agree that regen isn't that important once you get Torpor. It's a decent bonus, but I'd rather have raw HP.

I'm going to *try* to stay out of shaman strategy / philosophy discussions though. This thread isn't for that. I've tried in the past, but there's no point because a lot of people aren't likely to change their opinions. All I can do is give my personal experience/advice based on playing a shaman since 2000 and doing all the raid / solo content from classic to GoD.

[TanDemain]

Great work Byr - awesome inpsiration

[Arteker]

if u want to play with hps mana then u forgot orb of infinite void .

[Clark]

Cool seeing all the old items

[koros]

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

Ogre for toughest solos, Troll for grind camps/extra long fights/duos.

You're welcome, now you can stop being wrong.

Look. It's really quite simple. Stun immunity is not going to determine what you can solo. Damage taken per second vs hp recoverable per second is what matters. If you take less average damage per second, you can solo things that hit harder. That's all there is to it. In some incredibly rare cases, an ogre might survive a fight during that 1 in 32 seconds bash that interrupts that another race wouldn't. But if you're dying from that, you've probably already lost the fight.

[Byrjun]

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

if u want to play with hps mana then u forgot orb of infinite void .

I did "forget" to include it, partially because I hate the graphic and partly because it's expensive raid loot. I mentioned stuff like White Dragonscale Boots though so I probably should go back and mention the orb too.

[koros]

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

I did "forget" to include it, partially because I hate the graphic and partly because it's expensive raid loot. I mentioned stuff like White Dragonscale Boots though so I probably should go back and mention the orb too.

The guy is groupable (possibly soloable) and spawns in about a day. It's definitely not raid loot

[Byrjun]

I'm trying to remember that shit, I think he's near Tormax but yea I doubt Tormax will be up often. Possibly soloable but it would probably be pretty tough, the hard part is the pull iirc.

[quido]

I have 3665 mana.

[jaybone]

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

I have 3665 mana.

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