Soloing as a level 13 untwinked Ogre Shaman

[dbouya]

IMO unless you have something like a granite face grinder it's never worth slowing mobs you are solo'ing, not until level 51. Slow costs a lot of mana.

That said from level 20-29 I would use a runewood great staff to melee and tank, even untwinked. You can root rot but just also hit the enemies as well, using root rot to break camps of 2 or more. Melee'ing whenever you feel safe.

Whenever you're about to get a new charm or once charm's stop being given to shaman's I'd root rot the rest of the way to 51.

Untwinked though I think shaman's group better than they solo, in part due to dungeon ZEM. Also because hasting and slowing and buffing and healing a twinked melee character will work better than melee'ing alone untwinked. Poison wind censer is slightly better than runewood great staff, if you plan to ONLY solo absolutely shell out the extra $ for that instead. If you just want to solo while LFG the runewood great staff is much cheaper stopgap measure.

It's easy though to solo near where you're LFG as a shaman because you only take a minor hit to power level while alone. A strong group is also just one melee character away. Forming a strong core that makes building groups yourself easy.

[Lhancelot]

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

IMO unless you have something like a granite face grinder it's never worth slowing mobs you are solo'ing, not until level 51. Slow costs a lot of mana.

I only slowed mobs in low lvls when I solo'd, and that was with the lowest lvl slow as its not too mana heavy.

I agree it's not very efficient but I did it more just to practice for gameplay and if my alteration was low due to using Inner Fire as a heal, it was good to use for that also to keep Alteration up.

A key note too is to use lower level spells even as a higher level, they often times are effectiveness enough to get the needed result.

For instance your lower level root might prove more useful than later versions of root as its faster cvasting and uses way less mana.

A lower lvl slow might prove to be effective enough so you do not have to use your highest level slow which costs 250 mana, etc.

Root rotting is a method of combat you can choose as shaman, but until you get more than 1 decent dot, it's pretty slow grinding if thats how you choose to kill mobs.

With a weak root, you will be burning a ton of mana dotting, and using root to hold the mob down. Imo this is not very efficient, and that's why most shaman do melee for additional damage.