I'll try to be more specific.
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1. "better skill caps" <- What does this have to do with anything? Doing damage in a SK or War / Sham duo has no baring on whether or not you win or lose.
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Why is this the case?
Also, higher defense, parry, dodge, riposte, and disarm would help a warrior take less damage than a SK, right? Is this difference truly entirely insignificant?
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2. berserk? With a shaman healing you exclusively you had better hope you're not relying on running low HP.
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Why?
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Not to mention Shaman heals are incredibly inefficient except for Torpor which negates your damage dealing ability anyways.
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Incredibly efficient compared to what? Complete heal? What ISN'T? Also, so what? Slow + chloro + less-than-efficient heals seems == to efficient heals without slow or chloro to me. Is it? Is it not?
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3. Disciplines - useful, but for warriors their pretty much designed for raid situations or at least not at all attune to duoing with a shaman.
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Fair enough. I know disciplines tend to have pretty long CDs, also, so wasn't really thinking they'd be a staple of my play... more like oh-shit buttons, or something to assist in breaking a camp. Do they not work in these ways at least passably?
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4. More weapon choices - true, but again no baring on whether or not you can effectively duo with a shaman.
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As with #1, why is more damage not a factor in the effectiveness of a SK/war+sham duo? Seems pretty darn unintuitive to me.
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5. Since when are SK life taps crappy?
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I don't know, remember? We aren't in law school. Enough with the socratic method, eh? It makes sense for someone who doesn't know about SKs to assume that lifetaps a necro would have gotten 20 levels earlier, which are drawing on a smaller mana pool to replenish a larger HP pool that is being decreased more rapidly... are crappy.
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Torpor + life tap on any non-Int caster type mob is a legit win button.
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Explain it to me please. This whole...
1. Big healing
2. Little healing coupled with little damage
3. ???
4. THINGS DIE!!!
... thing doesn't really do it for me.
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Also, I'm interested to know how you plan to break camps without Lull or FD? I suppose you could root, but doesn't sound very efficient.
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I don't know, again. Seems like root + pet + slows + disc + blind would make for a decent way to break small camps to me. Would it not work?