Shaman: Lets put this Stun vs Regen thing to rest

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

Regen would still be better than FSI in such a situation. A more apt comparison would be to say "how much are you regenning when you're at full health" but seriously, how often does a good shaman that's using cannibalize reach 100% HP.

And that's the answer to this question. Ogre is a great choice for people who aren't perhaps the brightest and quickest players. It gives a little safety cushion for those who need it. Troll is better, but it requires you play a little better to maximize the benefits. In addition to the regen issue, a good troll shaman has implicit FSI if he times his important spell casts correctly. It's really not hard to keep track of when the bash is coming and cast your torpor/slow before/after it, only risking a canni getting interrupted.

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

Nah. I'm a 60 troll with torpor. Only times I would be tanking something and might get stunned:

3) fighting multiple mobs. If by some miracle they are all in front of me and not behind, and they're not slowed, I'm dead anyway unless I have AE slow memmed. This is the one case where maybe I could channel through a bunch of unslowed hits and get AE slow off whereas a bash would make me dead for sure. This almost never comes up though, and I never have AE slow memmed anyways.

Ideally you'd have some root nets ready to go to handle multiple mobs like that. FSI is hardly helpful when you're using instacast nets. The only situation that I ever thought to myself "FSI would be nice to have right now" is when powerleveling. I'd pull 6-8 kobolds in solb and keep them unslowed so ds could do as much damage as possible. In that case, I kind of wanted to be able to avoid bash interrupts, but it still wasn't a make-or-break skill.