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Hi hello I’ve leveled four shamans to 60 in my time playing P99. I’ve also accomplished a good portion of the Solo Artist Challenge on several toons.
Blue - Troll Shaman (no JBB or Epic)
Blue - Barb Shaman (JBB, no Epic)
Green - Iksar Shaman (no JBB, Epic)
Green - Ogre Shaman (JBB, Epic)
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Hello! Thanks for the post! That's awesome you've leveled so many Shamans.
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JBB felt very useful from 45-52 or so. I saw a drastic drop off in use on both the Barb and Ogre as I gained in levels beyond that. It still had occasional use at 55+ and very marginal use at 60, but it was mostly a neat toy at best.
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I leveled from 45-60 with JBB, and it was faster than Root Rotting. Mathematically this is also the case, as I showed earlier in this thread. I am curious as to why people have this feeling of drop-off in the early 50s. My only guess is people just don't have a good enough feel for how to use JBB for leveling. There isn't a lot of reference for how to level via JBB, so perhaps that is the culprit.
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Regen has felt useful to me at all levels. I really quite like it at 60 with Regrowth effects and Aura of Battle, it feels really substantial when solo farming or soloing hard content. FSI has felt mostly useless in all content, really only showing its value in soloing hard content and even then rarely. I’d say in terms of practical application and certainly in how it feels to play any of the characters, Regen > FSI (stuns are annoying, they don’t inhibit your ability to kill a hard target).
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Regen is useful at all levels. But you can math out precisely how much of a bonus it gives you. Sadly with Torpor, Racial Regen just falls off sharply, because you can get back to full HP in 3 minutes or less. Most fights aren't long enough for Racial Regen to save even one Torpor. Racial Regen basically needs a 12 minute fight to give you 1 Torpor back, which is only 30 seconds of recovery time saved per fight. At 60 you generally don't need that small boost to recovery time, as you are fighting big targets with long respawn timers. You aren't fighting waves of easy mobs on a Shaman at 60 as often.
Both FSI and Regen are small bonuses once you hit 60. FSI is simply better due to Regen falling off due to Torpor.
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Epic is far superior to JBB in my opinion, and certainly if you have a Fungi. I would always pick Epic for leveling, and considering Epic has broad and far reaching use at 60, and JBB has at best marginal use, I’d say JBB is more of a fantastic leveling item than anything else.
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Indeed. Epic is better for leveling, assuming you can consistently root rot 3+ mobs. If you are fighting 1-2 mobs per cycle, JBB is still going to be faster.
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All in all, play what you want to look at for hundreds if not thousands of hours. None of the racial bonuses will change your gameplay substantially. I’m partial to regen and I’ve found it the most impactful in feel. Others will argue differently, and that’s okay.
Edit: You need none of the tools to level to 60. Yeah, it’s a bit slower. Leveling is where you build the fundamentals, don’t let an item skip them all for you. Leveling with JBB is mathematically faster. Epic is likely on par, Epic with fungi I believe outpaces JBB with Fungi (hard to test this and honestly who the fuck cares). Pick what’s fun, enjoy the game. You can do it all on any race.
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Yes, everybody agrees that you should play what you want. Some people want to play what is Min/Max so they can get the most out of their character. That is why we have these debates, so people interesting in Min/Maxing can get the facts.