Help us build a Monk and Shaman Please

[Wakanda]

When I had to make the financial investment between a JBB or a Fungi Staff, people told me if you group and heal a lot that you would probably get more value out of the Fungi Staff. There was an actual thread on Reddit at the time (I may be able to find this) where people were comparing the two.

Anyways, I just want yall to know I've leveled two Shamans to 60 without a JBB and had no issues. In fact, I found myself waiting on spawns at most of the top camps at the time, meaning extra DPS prob would have been nice, but IDK how much of a difference it would have made when it comes to exp-per-hour.

I know you prob want to be an Iksar, but the Troll snare necklace is really nice, especially in dungeons. Keeps the mobs from fleeing / don't have to waste mana on root / if you root mobs they turn around and continue to beat on your pet / monk - with snare they just attempt to flee but can't move - saves mana on heals. Also got a lot of value out of the snare while solo'ing; snare is a huge blanket of security when you get a resist and are oom.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/project1999...s_fungi_staff/

before haters say I made it up.

[shovelquest]

If you can get your epic at 50 i def would skip JBB, and only use it for situational fights when soloing.

[kjs86z2]

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

Solid responses everyone. My thanks to all of you for your time and expertise here.

The toons are level 15-ish. We just got them factioned via giant helms for Thurg armor.

We have done the seahorse adventure, never got the belt but we can totally go back to the ledge of shame in SG and continue to farm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Interesting notes on the JBB. Looks like a "if you have the plat" item since we will 100% be in a duo all the time.

I didn't think Fungi would be such a huge deal. I have the Ceremonial Iksar Chestplate for regen on the SHM (cuz druid's love farming seb keys lol). I will look into something similar for the monk as I think that was probably the most "you need this" answer I saw.

Again, thank you all so much! This really gives me a few targets to try and line-up as we level etc.

Loramin, AWESOME LINK! The usual stuff on the class wiki pages is raid-y, so I tend to ignore those. So glad a page exists for random noise to farm/quest!

Prio by tiers:

Fungi for monk
Seahorse belt for monk (maybe farm extra seahorse belts to fund fungi?)
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Fungi for shaman
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Shaman Epic
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Monk Epic
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(sell shaman fungi for)
Torpor + Rest of shaman spells
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T Staff (PB is fine, I'd use IFS instead to save some weight)

These are the big ticket items, I'd prob just take some gear off your other chars to kit out the basics rings / ears / etc. Depending on how adventurous you're going to be, resist gear on the monk could be mega...but loading HP gets big mend value and buffer for slow + regen + fungi. The goal is to hit a state of equilibrium where the shaman basically never casts a direct heal unless recovering from a caster / gnarly pull.

I put shaman epic above monk epic because you'll always be buffed w/ shaman haste, but its still good. Any time you have more than 1 mob engaged you're going to love that shaman epic. And since you have a druid to quickly do the faction cheese its literally a child's tear MQ + final fight and you're done. Last time I played that was 80k plat, no idea these days. Do not sleep on shaman epic, get it as early as possible.

[Hannibal]

We are now poor. We had 39k to our name, but I got a fungi for 35k, which is pretty fair deal! Thanks for the tips everyone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We are now grinding it out in Unrest for a bit on the babies. Then we will very likely return to grinding for the Spiked Seahorse Hide Belt in Siren's Grotto.

[Jimjam]

Sweet! Did the fungi up the game for yous?

[kjs86z2]

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

We are now poor. We had 39k to our name, but I got a fungi for 35k, which is pretty fair deal! Thanks for the tips everyone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We are now grinding it out in Unrest for a bit on the babies. Then we will very likely return to grinding for the Spiked Seahorse Hide Belt in Siren's Grotto.

I think thats a good strategy. You don't need giga twinks at those levels anyway.

As soon as you can gut it out, get that seahorse belt though. Big upgrade.

You could probably also strip off the druid and slap it on the shaman.

[Hannibal]

The fungi has been a massive upgrade.

I have my druid parked so I can keep Thorns/PotG/Regen (+15) on her monk and coupled with the fungi (+15) the regen is gross.

My shaman using iksar regen BP (+5) with no buffs (or just PotG) feels pitiful as spells don't land on the reds her monk is now ripping through. I swear I cast spells just for skill-ups... I do whack decently with the poison wind censer at least!

We're thinking of hitting the high 20's, low 30's before pushing for the haste belt grind on the druid/chanter in SG.

Luckily <Kittens Who Say Meow> has been pretty active for grouping, since the raiders all left for <Fuze> so we've been able to help some folks get exp who might otherwise be left to solo/struggle.

Again, you folks have been aces at helping us steer this duo, so thank you for your time and consideration everyone. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I also got someone to quote me 40k for the childs tear + fight assist on the shaman once I get him factioned! Super stoked for that, I just need to be careful with my expenses for a while.

[kjs86z2]

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

The fungi has been a massive upgrade.

I have my druid parked so I can keep Thorns/PotG/Regen (+15) on her monk and coupled with the fungi (+15) the regen is gross.

My shaman using iksar regen BP (+5) with no buffs (or just PotG) feels pitiful as spells don't land on the reds her monk is now ripping through. I swear I cast spells just for skill-ups... I do whack decently with the poison wind censer at least!

We're thinking of hitting the high 20's, low 30's before pushing for the haste belt grind on the druid/chanter in SG.

Luckily <Kittens Who Say Meow> has been pretty active for grouping, since the raiders all left for <Fuze> so we've been able to help some folks get exp who might otherwise be left to solo/struggle.

Again, you folks have been aces at helping us steer this duo, so thank you for your time and consideration everyone. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I also got someone to quote me 40k for the childs tear + fight assist on the shaman once I get him factioned! Super stoked for that, I just need to be careful with my expenses for a while.

Shaman epic at 46 would be incredible.

Crazy how much prices have come down since I played.

[WarpathEQ]

Yeah that's wildly cheap for epic (although I'm on green so maybe that's normal on blue) would definitely snatch that

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shaman epic at 46 would be incredible.

Crazy how much prices have come down since I played.

I did that, you cant click till 50, but at 50 doing the moat solo in com is so rad. You just cast roots and clicks so you can keep like 10 things rotting at once, indefinitely and be full mana the whole time.