Shaman question about heavy downtime leveling

[netchayev]

Hi,

I want to start of by saying I started playing p99 two weeks ago, after playing the live version for about 2 days, and I simply love it. I love the old school, hardcore feel from it and also the immersion you get when playing it.
The community is also fantastic, never have I been apart of such an helping and social community before.

Onto my quesiton.
My barbarian shaman has just reached level 15 and I have been grinding the Bandits in WK to try and get some plat for a new weapon. I am currently using a bone wraith hammer but I am in real need of a new one it seems, as I'm starting to have real troubble killing things smoothly.

First of all, I can barely kill a white bandit/creature without being on the brink of dying and having used all my mana for nukes/slow/dot.
When killing blue ones I lose about 30-50% hp and maybe 30-40% mana.
Green ones are really not a problem. A heal or two after a kill and im set (but lost 20-30% mana in the procces)

So after each kill, or maybe 2 max, I have to sit down and med for about 2-3 minutes, to be able to continue killing. Is this normal ?
I am usally just slowing the mob once and then meleeing/tanking it. Sometimes I use my dot or nuke once, but mostly just melee it when its slowed.

Am I doing something wrong here ?
Between having to rebuff myself, wait for mana and untill I have to rebuff myself again, I have the chance to kill maybe 15 bandits. And that takes about 30-40 minutes becuase of all the downtime.
Seems like I'm sitting down more then I am standing/running and fighting.


Thats why I'm saving money for a new weapon, assuming thats my problem.
Or is there something else im missing here ?

Thank you in advance!