Shaman race choice without torpor.

[Widan]

You don't have to keep track of when a mob is using what skill. You can cast every spell exactly when it's needed. Without it you're going to have to wait roughly 20% of the time to cast Torpor or else you will be interrupted, on a slowed mob. How do you not realize how immensely beneficial this is?

With Torpor + Regrowth + Fungi you're at 334 hp/tick fighting mobs as an Ogre, as a Troll or Iksar you are at 342 hp/tick. Wow so good.

It's pretty clear which one is better.

(Yes, I'm aware the original question was without Torpor, but the guy I was responding to referenced the solo artist challenge)

[BlkCamel]

100k for Torpor not that hard to get to be honest. If you think you can dedicate a few hours at a time to camp 5-8k items. I know it sounds alot but depending what you camp it can take at most 20 drops of the 5k rare item or 12.5 drops of an 8k item. Sounds alot but if you pepper in FS loots and coinage from selling crap you get trying to get the 5k+ items it will drop these numbers alot.

Example. King camp in Guk. Drops 2k Crown non stop. 750/1k Sword uncommonly and then the tact drops the 8k Circlet. Can easily make 13k (2 crowns + sword and circlet) in one camp assuming you stay til Circlet drops. If no circlet you can make 2k every-time you camp it as you are almost guaranteed 1 king every 90 minutes (Have had 3 in a row then 1 ph and another before).

P.S. And to answer original post, Go Barb if you want but avoid Iksar. Even in Velious JBB is awesome. Also a-lot more gear choices for Ogre or Barb. If you do go Barb you get Seb scale gear, jarsath gear, plate gear, jbb, Imbued Granite Spaulders (very underrated resist item)+ many more. Also faster leveling. I prefer Ogre for FSI but I played Barb on live and survived Kunark/Velious just fine. If you aren't going for Torpor you wont be fighting the stuff IFS is best against.

P.S.S. I skipped ahead and see Aamok mentioned alot of the gear I was talking about with Barb. IGS so nice.

[aamok]

yeah IGS is pretty badass. to be honest, after making my ogre and getting him to like 40, i remade as a barbarian because of the gear that i realized was unavailable to fat guys.

after a few days of this (wearing my IGS and shit feeling all cool) i decided two things: 1) screw levelling that far again and 2)ogres rule and everyone else can gtfo. fat guy power /flex

[aamok]

waitasec.. maybe i need coffee.. fsi?

[BlkCamel]

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

waitasec.. maybe i need coffee.. fsi?

frontal stun immunity = FSI sorry.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fishingme]

Iksar or troll for regen. Regen is a big game changer. If you know how to play, stun immunity is worthless.

[chuggy]

Frontal stuns are so rare it's not even worth thinking about. Play the race you think looks cool

[DrKvothe]

Barb for leveling way faster (including OP gnoll fang quest, which can take you into your 20s), looking cooler (including a polar bear hat), good faction (which you can selectively wreck, but still be left with some easily accessed banks), not being stupidly over-sized or having a tail.

Any one of these things trumps regen or frontal stun immunity.

[aamok]

hahah yeah i'm a tard for not figuring that out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Orruar]

Where do you get this 20% number from? A slowed mob will land a bash couple minutes at most. That means you have roughly a 5% chance of being interrupted on torpor, assuming you don't watch the incoming melee rounds. And if you don't watch the incoming melee rounds to time your long spells (torpor/dots), you're going to be interrupted far more often by straight up melee damage interrupts than by bashes.