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Originally Posted by Wizerud
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If your melee skills are underdeveloped that would have had a lot to do with it. Try lower con but still dark blue mobs to max out all your offense/defense/melee skills and that will make a huge difference. Maxing your defense is reccommended even if you dont plan to melee in your future and low dark blues are the safest way to do it.
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What about light blues? Do they raise skill too slowly to be worth it?
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Originally Posted by Noselacri
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Once you get your pet, you can try a few other approaches such as letting it tank or kiting around with it.
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Finally, forget about mana/wisdom. It's not important to a shaman.
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On the first point: how is it better to let the pet tank if it's so much lower level than I am? Presumably if I'm letting the pet tank I'd be better off tanking myself, even if I had mediocre gear, right? Or do you mean only letting it tank when it's regenned up its HP, so I never actually have to heal it? Or perhaps only letting it tank when I'm dealing with adds or the like?
On the second point: people say this a lot, but I wish they would justify it. If I'm soloing and I'm not tanking, I'm presumably not too worried about taking large amounts of HP damage at a time. With canni, I get about 1 mana for 2 hp, so if I want to maximize my overall amount of mana, it seems far more efficient to go for WIS and MP than to go for STA and HP (especially since casters get low returns for STA). I'm willing to buy that HP is more important, but you've got to give me some reasoning for it, and this reasoning has got to take into account that I'm going to be soloing and presumably (according to this thread, at least) not tanking until I've been 50 for a while and gotten myself the best gear. I might also start raiding at 50, at which point maybe I can see HP being more important, if I'm worried about pulling aggro from really powerful mobs with my slows, but I'd like clarification on this as well, because unless I'm in danger of getting killed by these mobs for the presumably short amount of time they're wailing on me, MP still seems to be the better choice.
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Originally Posted by Skope
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Shammy tanking with a slowed mob is used to maintain 100% DoT damage
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You should steer away from shammy tanking until level 34 (pet) or 39 (best slow) if you can't manage buying the lvl 30 proc weapons (barb hammer/blight).
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What do you mean by 100% DoT damage? Are you counting your weapon or its proc as a DoT?
Why should I start tanking at 34 when I get my pet? It seems like it would be just as inefficient as it was pre-pet.
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The overall message I'm getting from the replies here (thanks for them, of course) is that I shouldn't be tanking until I hit 50 and get 1337 gear. I'm going to make sure I max my melee skills every level, though. What do they cap at? Is it just level*5 for offense/defense/dodge and level*5+5 for weapons? I plan to resume SoW kiting once I get the pet, unless it has really good regen and can handle tanking once in a while; if I continue root-rotting without letting the pet attack the mob, I'm not really making any use of it.