Early Shaman tips

[Treefall]

Ok - having slowly been leveling a Cleric up, using PWC and basically tanking 1-~24 was not bad. Up to ~34 things kept slowing down and nuking did more dmg and by ~39 I felt I pretty much had to be a wizard aside from skills ups or finishing mobs off.

I say that because Shaman would be infinitely better at doing that with the tools you have. Maybe I am repeating what others have said in the thread but you will have very little down time doing this:

• Buff STR
  Slow
  Melee
  Sit after fight if needed or heal
  Unlike cleric that keeps getting worse you eventually add
  Haste
  Better slow
  Regen
  Pet

I only ever played my Shaman duo, but I would wager with mild upgrades a Shaman could easily melee up to 45+ and do a mix of melee/dot/root in and out with pet to low 50s.