Evil Shaman Solo Guide 1-56+

[RDawg816]

I know when I was soloing early on, I would root rot. Could usually handle 2-3 at a time. Nukes are horribly inefficient for shaman...
Once you get 24 and have regen+canni it is a game changer.

[HeyNomad]

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

Does this seem 'normal'? ... Should I expect 1-2 kills before oom and med?

Solo at level 15 with very minimal twinking? Yeah, honestly. If I remember right, if you're in Kurns, you're probably fighting mobs very close to you in level. It might be more efficient to put in another level at FoB...? Just a thought. Hard to say, given that Kurns has one of the highest exp modifiers in the game. You might still be better off with one mob every few minutes. But in general, widening the level gap between your target and yourself can have a big impact on your efficiency.

It's good to try different strategies and see if you can get small improvements--like, maybe it's better to cast an extra frost rift for 15 mana and skip the 20 mana drowsy, which isn't that great a slow anyway, or melee half the fight and root rot the other half. But overall, I'd say that pace is pretty much classic and to be expected.

[Jimjam]

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

I have been following this guide as a newbie (first character since vanilla all those years ago, self funded) and it has been pretty slow going. I managed to snag a full set of banded and a wraithbone hammer (8/26) after farming pelts and things outside of EC.

As it stands now to kill a greater skeleton (blue con) at level 15 in kurns takes 70-100% of my mana bar. If I don't dump my mana I will just spend it slowly healing with inner fire for nearly the same down time it seems, these skeletons chew through my health quick. Melee isn't really viable due to what seems like a 95% miss rate (the rest being small hits for 3-4 with the occasional 16 damage full hit).

I start out slowing (drowsy), 1 poison dot, spam 2-3 frost nukes, and melee the last 5-19%. I heal with inner fire then med. Does this seem 'normal'? I have heard shammy soloing is slow going until upper levels, just curious if there is a better way maybe I am missing something obvious (newbie). Should I expect 1-2 kills before oom and med?

Should I be saving up for a slow 2hander after level 20 (Runewood great staff), rooting, dotting, and then meleeing while backing out of range for med ticks? or root rotting?

While you are in kurns maybe camp an iksar berserker club.

7/18 so not quite as good for casting between swings, but it is a better ratio, pads your stats and has a proc which will boost your tanking and melee dps.

Some blues will be tougher than others, ones close to your level might be particularly difficult to tank (there was a fairly recent patch that adjusted lowbie tanking because it was too easy to tank until the 20s in just patchwork armour, so perhaps the pendulum swung too far the other way)!

If you are doing Kurns there should be plenty of melee twinks to group with and help you plough through mobs. I'm sure they will appreciate the assistance of a shaman.

[jolanar]

When I leveled my iksar shaman I personally avoided kurns except for groups. Too much level variance in the skeletons in the upper floors. Too many adds and multipulls everywhere. Unlimited single pulls just outside was much simpler when soloing.

[Hakubi]

I am level 25 troll shaman. Posting this here because I can't create a thread and my posts never seem to get moderator approval...

I have been having issues with Canni dancing using a macro, I get random variations of mana return between 9-10 and the proper 20 when using the following macros as reported by DuxaUI's mana gauge:

/stand
/cast 5 (canni)
/pause 25
/sit

It more often than not returns 9 mana (while always taking 50 health) and vary rarely the proper 20. I have tried adjusting the pause from 15 <-> 30 and nothing fixes this behavior. If I manually cast Canni (manually sitting/spell gems either dancing or spamming) it gives the correct 20 mana. My meds tick for 12 every 6 seconds so... example:

Actual usage:
Starting mana: 200
Med tick: +12 (212)
Macro Canni: + 9 (221)
Sit in time for next med tick: +12 (233)


Expected usage:
Starting mana: 200
Med tick: +12 (212)
Macro Canni: 20 (232)
Sit in time for next med tick: +12 (245)

The only explanation for this is I am missing med ticks and the client acts weird until it gets server data... but my timing has to be right. Is this a client-server interpolation issue or me doing something stupid?

In a possibly related issue I always get weird behavior when standing after medding. I lose my last tick of mana (-12) after 6 seconds of standing unless I cast a spell immediately.

Ping is around 89-95ms. Latency meter says 100% except for the occasional drop into the 99.7x that corrects itself after half a second. There is a red star below it 100% of the time (no idea what that means).

[kined]

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

It more often than not returns 9 mana (while always taking 50 health) and vary rarely the proper 20. I have tried adjusting the pause from 15 <-> 30 and nothing fixes this behavior. If I manually cast Canni (manually sitting/spell gems either dancing or spamming) it gives the correct 20 mana. My meds tick for 12 every 6 seconds so... example:

Actual usage:
Starting mana: 200
Med tick: +12 (212)
Macro Canni: + 9 (221)
Sit in time for next med tick: +12 (233)


Expected usage:
Starting mana: 200
Med tick: +12 (212)
Macro Canni: 20 (232)
Sit in time for next med tick: +12 (245)

The only explanation for this is I am missing med ticks and the client acts weird until it gets server data... but my timing has to be right. Is this a client-server interpolation issue or me doing something stupid?

this is very weird... ive never seen canni return 9 mana... my first thought is that you must be having lag, but a tick for 9 doesnt make sense in that context to me. are you sure that fizzles arent messing up your calculation or something? canni doesnt cost mana but will cost some if you fizzle. i doubt thats your problem but nothing esle makes sense for a 9 mana tick.

[kined]

sorry for the double post... but i just tried this for myself when i got back from work and im seeing this same exact thing on my 27 shaman, and it never did this a couple days ago because im weird and like to constantly do the math as i do canni for some reason. i think this is a bug right now, the mana is ticking like 4 times when i do it.. weird. it is usually very predictable.

[Hakubi]

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

sorry for the double post... but i just tried this for myself when i got back from work and im seeing this same exact thing on my 27 shaman, and it never did this a couple days ago because im weird and like to constantly do the math as i do canni for some reason. i think this is a bug right now, the mana is ticking like 4 times when i do it.. weird. it is usually very predictable.

I think I figured it out. It is a client-server issue.
There are two ticks, clientside and serverside that happen at different times. This apparently stems from the Titanium client having the "new" regen rates while the actual server uses classic (slower) regen. If you google "P99 false med ticks" you will see a couple threads, been around for years and probably no fix in the works, everyone has to work around it.

It looks like you only get 9 mana from canni because when the server updates you were actually standing and didn't hit your med ticks, the client tick is just there to make things confusing. You can manually offset your canni times by +1 second until you hit the right one and it returns the proper 20 mana and registers your med tick as well. The problem is this window floats between zones and time of day so you constantly have to hunt for it. I have gotten pretty good at it but sometimes they are so close or wonky you can't hit them at all.

I try hitting it right after med tick first.
Then off set 1 second if that fails
Then I wait for a med tick and see if I get a mana decline of -1 shortly after (this one is a good indicator of when to canni).

You have to offset your times within that window and you will usually get it, after that it can stay constant for 1-20+ minutes.

Same thing with losing a med tick after standing (without) canni. If you find this window you can stand a few milliseconds after it and keep your mana. Quite the grab ass but missing a med tick every so often probably won't be that drastic once we get Canni 4.

Good luck (God I wish I could leave the SK hermit, did him from 25-27 and he still seems like the best camp in SK so far).

[isoka]

There is a desynchronization between client and server mana ticks. It can be noticed by seeing over the course of 6 seconds your mana being updated twice. Any cast will actually refresh your real mana number (getting rid of the fake mana tick till the next one ...), especially instant cast clickies.

The fact that you end up with 221 mana after casting canni shows that you were standing when the real med tick happened (+1 standing) to which you received +20 mana from canni = 200 + 21 mana.

Also, if you want to make sure you catch the real med tick, pay attention to your HPs. It gets updated much more accurately than the mana pool. You will see your HPs acting weird with a little jump in numbers. But once it goes back to the expected number (starting HP + regen sitting), you can be sure the med tick just happened.

[applesauce25r624]

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

I am level 25 troll shaman. Posting this here because I can't create a thread and my posts never seem to get moderator approval...

I have been having issues with Canni dancing using a macro, I get random variations of mana return between 9-10 and the proper 20 when using the following macros as reported by DuxaUI's mana gauge:

/stand
/cast 5 (canni)
/pause 25
/sit

It more often than not returns 9 mana (while always taking 50 health) and vary rarely the proper 20. I have tried adjusting the pause from 15 <-> 30 and nothing fixes this behavior. If I manually cast Canni (manually sitting/spell gems either dancing or spamming) it gives the correct 20 mana. My meds tick for 12 every 6 seconds so... example:

Actual usage:
Starting mana: 200
Med tick: +12 (212)
Macro Canni: + 9 (221)
Sit in time for next med tick: +12 (233)


Expected usage:
Starting mana: 200
Med tick: +12 (212)
Macro Canni: 20 (232)
Sit in time for next med tick: +12 (245)

The only explanation for this is I am missing med ticks and the client acts weird until it gets server data... but my timing has to be right. Is this a client-server interpolation issue or me doing something stupid?

In a possibly related issue I always get weird behavior when standing after medding. I lose my last tick of mana (-12) after 6 seconds of standing unless I cast a spell immediately.

Ping is around 89-95ms. Latency meter says 100% except for the occasional drop into the 99.7x that corrects itself after half a second. There is a red star below it 100% of the time (no idea what that means).

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=151479

sometimes i get 2 changes in hp/mana per tick. sometimes 3. i just wait until they are all done before hitting the canni macro

pause 25 might be too much time. remember, canni 1 has a really short ass cast time (1.25 secs??)