Shaman vs Druid soloing...

[NirrtiXXX]

which class would be better for soloing if needed? Could either solo decently indoors?

[gummab]

Outdoors with charmable mobs,druid wins hands down.
Shamans are better at harder mobs,summoning mobs etc.
I think both can solo indoors rather well,not too sure on druids been a long time since i played one and rarely was i indoors,though KK would be ideal.
Both are strong soloer's but i prefer shaman due to the fact they just bring more to the table.

[NirrtiXXX]

thanks that is all i needed to know :P

yeah about all druids have special is porting....

[NirrtiXXX]

Originally Posted by NirrtiXXX [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

thanks that is all i needed to know :P

yeah about all druids have special is porting....

I guess other question is which race.... this is my first real toon but I can handle an evil race... Barbs level faster.... but..... i guess are ogre, iksar, or troll worth it, and which one is best. I would go ikky, but the problem is when you leave kunurk it is a pain to sell etc. I heard even if you fix faction you cannot sell or bank.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by NirrtiXXX [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

thanks that is all i needed to know :P

yeah about all druids have special is porting....

I think you're not giving druids enough credit. People around here are quick to call shamans the solo gods, and that is justifiable but only when the shaman is 60 AND has torpor.

But there is something to be said for a druid being able to solo by root+rot, quadding, OR charming. No other class has that many SOLID options for soloing, and a lot of people get tired of doing the exact same thing over and over and over again for 60 levels.

A bit off topic, but druids get too much undeserved hate. They're a generalist class; they don't fit well into a cookie-cutter XP group. But they are versatile and powerful solo, they work nicely in quite a few less-othrodox duos/trios (usually involving outdoors, charming, and/or fear-kiting), they are GOOD on raids (nice buffs especially in Velious, ports for mobilization, spot heals or a bit of damage/charming, etc), and who doesn't like to have one around for helping noobs/buddies level up?

[webrunner5]

You can solo on a Druid outdoors with 50 plat of gear. You can solo indoors with 400k of plat gear on a Shaman. Oh, you will NEED the epic on the Shaman also.

I play both and they are both high end. Real high end. They are different animals. Quading can get boring as hell. But so can root rotting too. Must admit group wise a Druid goes to crap at level 52ish. Shaman is good to 60. Druid is FAR easier to play in a group compared to Shaman. Shaman has TOO many F'ing buffs and spells. And Canni gets old as hell real quick. Druid pet charm is WAY under used on them after level 53. They can be pretty bad ass.

If you suffer from the screaming shits either being sick or drunk forget a Shaman lol. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The NICE part about a Druid is they can make scary plat Porting and PLing. I would think I made easy over 500k in 6 months on mine. I never had crap plat wise till I leveled up my Druid. And it is cool as hell duoing with my son on the Druid porting around compared to the Shaman. Haste is good on a Shaman Monk combo but so is Thorns. And mana wise you can't slow and haste all the time very long. And like when you get there the damn thing you want is camped and on the Druid you just say hell lets go here and guess what you are there. They both have their strengths, but I love my Druid more than the Shaman.

And for healing forget both of them. Go with a Cleric. I love it even more. In Velious Complete Heal IS King. Nuff said. And easy to play and cheap to equip.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can solo on a Druid outdoors with 50 plat of gear. You can solo indoors with 400k of plat gear on a Shaman. Oh, you will NEED the epic on the Shaman also.

From 45 on shaman don't need their epic or 400k plat of gear: they only need 21k of gear. 1k is for cheap armor to give them at least some AC, and 20k is for a JBB (Jaundiced Bone Bracer), which gives them infinite mana-free damage.

A shaman with a JBB can kill anything that is root-able and doesn't have huge resists given enough time. And they can usually kill non-rootable stuff too, as long as its slow-able (unless it hits REALLY hard).

Of course it's really nice to have an epic, topor, a fungi, etc., and of course you feel more like a wizard than a shaman when all you're doing is DDing things, but if your goal is just to solo for loot or XP the JBB (and some crappy armor) is all you really need.

[Auvdar]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think you're not giving druids enough credit. People around here are quick to call shamans the solo gods, and that is justifiable but only when the shaman is 60 AND has torpor.

But there is something to be said for a druid being able to solo by root+rot, quadding, OR charming. No other class has that many SOLID options for soloing, and a lot of people get tired of doing the exact same thing over and over and over again for 60 levels.

A bit off topic, but druids get too much undeserved hate. They're a generalist class; they don't fit well into a cookie-cutter XP group. But they are versatile and powerful solo, they work nicely in quite a few less-othrodox duos/trios (usually involving outdoors, charming, and/or fear-kiting), they are GOOD on raids (nice buffs especially in Velious, ports for mobilization, spot heals or a bit of damage/charming, etc), and who doesn't like to have one around for helping noobs/buddies level up?

Agree, druids do get some unneeded hate. A well played druid can do quite a bit. Charming rats in Hate as offtanks/DPS, group cold/fire resists, solid group regen, and a good HP buff come 60. (SoV gets better with a +ATK debuff and a real good group buff.).

Only point I was getting at is a Shaman easily has the better overall solo power. Druids can solo amazingly well leveling with little investment, but the things a Shaman can end up doing later on trumps druids 10 fold.

So I will always say Shaman > Druid for solo, simply for what they can potentially end up doing. As for pure leveling, Druid > Shaman.

[lecompte]

Shamans are king and can solo higher level content, druids do fine at root rotting eventually.

[lecompte]

Do a search for best race for shaman. There are about 20 threads about it.