Does a fungi "fix" Barb shamans?

[loramin]

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

As I understand it, a 60 sham isn't going to be sitting at 100% hp hardly ever, especially not on non-trivial content, and therefore that regen is helping most all the time even if the amount pales relative to the healing from torpor.

You understand it correctly great sage Tecmos. But the emphasis is definitely on the "the amount pales" part. When you compare the numbers of Torpor and Cannibalize IV to the bonus an Iksar/Troll gets from regen, it quickly becomes apparent why no one with Torpor cares about regen:

Torpor: 200 mana for 1500 HP
Cann IV: 148 HP for 82 mana
Iksar/Troll Sitting Regen Diff vs. Barbs/Ogres: 12 HP

The regen diff is literally a small fraction of both what Cannibalize consumes, or what Torpor replenishes.

Oh, and you're also correct about the sitting thing. The live advice for Shaman was to "Cann-dance", and that did involve lots of sitting, but Shaman here understand the mechanics of clickies refreshing spells (eg. Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring), and they've realized that it's faster to just spam Cannibalize while standing than to bother with the dance.

I used the sitting numbers for two reasons. One, lower-level Shaman do sit a lot (whether or not they Cann-dance), and this discussion was very much about not just level 60, but the path to 60. Also, I was trying to make a point (that the regen wasn't a big deal), and I didn't want to "cheat" to make that point by using the less impressive standing regen numbers.