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Originally Posted by Sizar
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Don't nuke, like ever if you're soloing. Also using dot's is fairly mana inneficient at low levels. If you are like under level 34 or so, just use a cheap slow spell and melee down. Your heals are more efficient than nukes and dots. So that means find the best ratio weapon you can afford, 2hander preferably. Just keep up the necessary buffs, dont bother with crap like agility or dex. IMO the mana spent keeping up those buffs does not pay off. Would rather just use that mana for more heals or slows.
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I disagree. Different scenarios require different parts of your kit. I've found some of your best soloing is nuking.
People always remember shaman with twink gear or in their power spike. You don't have a lot of mana, so you to consider how to engage each mob. Envenomed breath (EB) is a 2.19 damage to mana ratio. Frost Strike (FS)is 1.37. Root is 40 mana. If you add the mana cost of Root to EB, it becomes 1.56. At 24+ you need to consider your HP as mana. You will kill a mob much faster Nuking vs root rotting. I've found the amount of incidental damage taken and cost of root at low levels Spam nuking to be more efficient than root rotting.
I was able to keep more mobs down in upper guk by Nuke spamming with my back to the wall, then I am with either Root Rotting or face tanking with a slow using melee/dots.
Same thing applied when I was soloing treants or hag tower.
This only changed when I got Doggo. He is a beast. He has soo much hp, does great dmg and his regen is insane. But, solo it is easy for him to take 50% xp if you let him tank with slow. So I only do this when I'm trying to take down a tough mob and don't care about xp.
Against a healer mob I root rot, as mobs don't heal themselves if they are rooted with nothing in melee range. Other mobs might heal them, but they don't heal themselves.
Against wizard types, nuke spam wins. You can generally two shot a wiz mob with nukes if they don't have rune up.
But yeah, never use frenzy, the idea might be cool but I've never found a scenario where the mana drain was worth it. I wouldn't focus on weapon/shield. Shaman are great tanks to 20. You have amazing aggro using drowsy on every mob and good enough mitigation. But, this strat falls off hard. Play a knight or Ranger if you wanna melee with good aggro.