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Inspired by this discussion I started playing a troll shaman as I am usually a barbarian. And this is very small scale anecdotal evidence but I'm experiencing a lot of stuns from 2 to 5 stuns each combat easily. And I can see this making a big difference in the late game. But I'm also liking lower downtimes due to the troll regen
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Game starts at 60, Get your skills maxed. Don't listen to people who tell you to melee to level up. Root Rot, then duo to 60. Shaman is a priest class, these people are playing the wrong class. I leveled my troll shaman in two weeks to 51, root rotting. Comparing level 10 to level 60 is not comparable at all. You'll have different gear, spells, etc. Don't start making assumptions that ogre will be any better while leveling. Even the brain dead ogre boys say troll leveling is better. Troll is the defacto best shaman race. I hate this ogre brainwashing BS that this community has layered on so thick for years Hope you picked innoruuk
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But of course this depends heavily on your gear. I started without especially good gear (I had a gift of a Barbarian Spiritist Hammer and a couple plat wedding rings, but otherwise was naked). I found I tended to start doing a lot more root/rotting in the late teens, but depending on what I was fighting I went back to meleeing at times. I definitely used my hammer plenty, and root/rotted plenty. And then one other factor is your pet: it's your best DoT, but you can only use it if either you or the pet is tanking. That leads to a third option I took also: pet tanking. You still lose melee damage, but it can be nice if the mob casts or interrupts you a lot (or summons). Ultimately I suspect you're both right and you just went to different hunting spots at different levels.
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jesus those poor socks
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You're going about asking the wrong question. The numbers are insignificant, in and of themselves. What matters is how they are applied. Specifically, the right question to ask is: "is there any content I wish to do on my shaman that is made harder or impossible due to a statistically significant advantage of one shaman race over another?"
In high end gear I do not believe there is any such content. There may be a slight advantage for ogre, especially head to head in less than high end gear in the mid/late 50s game on some solo content, especially in velious...but I've never heard anyone say damn I bet I could have won that fight if I had rolled ogre instead of troll...b/c it doesn't happen much, if ever. | ||
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1-40 meleeing is more mana efficient than root rotting, especially on Blue when you have access to cheap, good ratio weapons like:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Poison_Wind_Censer https://wiki.project1999.com/Granite_Face_Grinder https://wiki.project1999.com/Exquisi...um_Brawl_Stick Shaman DoTs have bad DPM at lower levels, and spell resists hurt a lot mana wise. With meleeing, you just need to haste yourself, heal yourself, slow, maybe malo, and only root at the end when the mob is running. You reduce how many spells you need to cast, and you reduce how many spell resists you get. This is because you are healing yourself, instead of attacking the mob with DoTs. You are also not rooting as much. Lower level roots have a smaller duration, and random root breaks occur. Mobs don't do a ton of damage levels 1-40, so the damage you take while slow tanking is pretty efficient. Once you hit level 40, meleeing becomes a lot less efficient. Mobs hit a LOT harder, have more HP, and more AC. You also get access JBB and Epic in 5-6 levels. Shamans were designed to melee to a certain degree. This is evident by their 200 maximum skill for weapon skills at level 50. This is the same cap as Shadowknights and Paladins. Druids and Clerics have a 175 cap at level 50. Also, Shamans get a specific buff line to help with their meleeing: https://wiki.project1999.com/Frenzy to https://wiki.project1999.com/Voice_of_the_Berserker . Not saying it is an amazing spell line, but the game design is crystal clear.
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Once slowed bash timers almost freeze in time. Lag spikes or an add will kill you, not a momentary bash. Not typically at least.
All the sham races are great because the class is great. With an epic and fungi (pre 60) you are almost unstoppable. If a scrubby casual though a JBB will make your life wayyy easier than going iksar. Realistically ask yourself if you will get the epic (or if at all) unless you want an underdog trophy. | ||
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