Shaman race choice without torpor.

[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?

[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.

[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.]

[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]

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

Any shaman can click puppet strings, yes. For high end velious soloing you will want to be an ogre.

Not true. Unless you can name for me a mob that has the following characteristics:
- Not rootable
- Not kitable during slow phase
- High MR

Once a mob is slowed, the ogre stun immunity is essentially 0 benefit. Troll and iksar regen are far more useful.

[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)

[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.