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Last edited by DeathsSilkyMist; 01-26-2024 at 11:59 AM..
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There were a handful of iksar vs non-iksar damge intake trials (albeit, with tanks, not shamans) run back when P99 was in Kunark, but I don't know of any being done post-Velious. Since AC/mitigation was revamped for Velious, the old data is thus no longer relevant. Overall the community doesn't care all that much; it's kind of a niche question. Most high-end solo/smallmans are charm-based these days, and raid tanks tend to gear for HP (when there's a choice) since the nature of raid heal chains favors that style of gearing in this game.
We know from experience the iksar's presumed advantage in that area is not sufficient for them to do anything a non-iksar shaman cannot do, or even have enough of an advantage that anyone's even particularly noticed it yet in going on ~9 years of Velious on P1999. Racial regeneration, access to Jaundiced bracer, bash immunity, even slam, all those are much more noticeable. | ||
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JBB is undeniably awesome for leveling at 45 when you can start clicking it. It remains overpowered through until the early 50s. It starts to fall off mid50s and becomes less and less relevant the higher you get. Mob hp goes up. Dots reach a point where they start to shine. The click is long and by choosing to click it vs taking other approaches you end up losing a lot of potential mana (med ticks) extra regen (sitting especially on a troll iksar is very impactful) … lots of issues.
By the mid 50s and before epic, letting dog dog tank and using dots and medding with regen (spell and racial) rolling was quicker and more efficient. The best choice was always just grabbing a melee partner. But yeah from 45-51 solo JBB xp was better than any potential duo I had
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1-59 you never should be full health when things are happening. If you’re full health, you’re converting it to mana. If you’re full mana, you should be doing something with that mana. So much for that group argument. Raids? Unless you are specifically prepped and ready for an immediate boss fight there’s always something productive you can be doing with your mana. And if you’re not full mana you shouldn’t be just sitting at full health. Then again i consider sitting at full health to be wasted potential .. ya know … cause of innate regen.
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I know DSM is mindful of being prepared to give any that ask a full compliment of buffs, he is very good on that aspect, I’m sure his current guild mates can corroborate that.
That does seem an outlier though - often shamans will be short on mana for full buffs - especially in situations where people are dieing and rebuffing and moving through lots of targets quickly. Often toons will need to settle for fos and stamina only even when they’d prefer a bit more.
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FSI is better than Regen when dealing with a Flurry, because not getting stunned from a bash increases your chances of landing a slow before you die. You get more auto attack swings from https://wiki.project1999.com/Di%60zok_Oracle_Shillelagh , and you are more likely to land the slow you are casting.
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I experienced JBB until (I think) level 56. Mob hp got higher and it was a choice between standing there clicking JBB (+/- adding my own dots) and either trying to let dog tank or simply face tanking. Dog would not be reliable in holding aggro, so it meant the mob was on me.
Fastest kill speed: dog + dot + jbb Medium kill speed: dog + jbb no dot Slightly slower: load some dots + dog tank + me med vs cannidance Why did the third option just end up better over time even though the individual kill speed was slightly lower? Efficiency resulted in less down time and faster pull tempo. JBB meant I was face tanking. JBB meant I was not only missing out on extra regen and med ticks from sitting during the fight, I was actively taking the damage vs letting the pet do that. Pet regens 30 per tick baseline. More with a regen buff. You and I both know that shaman pets properly buffed are actually pretty good meat shields. By capitalizing on both the pet’s innate regen , regen buff, my own innate regen (sitting), fungi, and buff regen - well between the two of us we were rocking along at 30 + 15 + 15 + 15 (75 total health per tick) combined BEFORE you factor in troll racial regen while sitting. This is vs just my own regen and not getting to sit. So yeah 91 regen (16 racial sitting) combined between the two of us. It was nearly 1/3 of a continuous torpor that only required a regrowth refresh every nearly 20 minutes. Pet health regen covered the dps of mobs in this level range very nicely and heals were infrequent and not very necessary- super efficient. My own regen covered the hits I would take here and there and funnel all that extra back into my mana bar. By not standing and chain clicking, I would also hit a lot of med ticks. Even when the fights took a bit longer, I would kill more total mobs over any given unit time as each fight would end with me simply ready for the next. With JBB chain clicking there were no med ticks. My innate regen was cut in half. I would be the one actively taking the damage which would require either time or mana to recover, and I’d have less mana from not canni’ing or dancing along the way. You can show all the cute math of what a “free” clicky gives you in terms of dps, but don’t neglect the opportunity cost of having all of your everything fully occupied during the time you’re face tanking the damage and mindlessly clicking JBB. Then again, Troll regen was there. You like to quote the differences while standing but I promise it’s a much wider gap while sitting. Yes. Mid-50s it became less efficient than just playing differently and more efficiently. It was then I realized that my once overpowered self-PL tool was now just a cute toy. Beyond that - the best results were with a duo buddy and god damn if it wasn’t boring as fuck. Shaman is such a dynamic class. It’s a shame to see it relegated to slowing a mob on incomming. And then just mindlessly hitting one key until it was dead. Sold it. No regrets. Don’t want another. Would sell another immediately if I won one in a group.
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