A tale of 2 sowers

[Donkey Hotay]

Having received an unsolicited SoW from Plush during the first week on Green, I suspect all this guff is just bluster and Plush has the same heart of gold the Blue Plush had.

[Danth]

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

Honest question: How is a low level shaman more useful than a low level druid? Is it it the 20% slow or is it the AGI buffs?

More useful is up for debate, but the Shaman does have advantages if we're talking teens-level characters. Shaman gets better armor (banded typically at low levels) and can act as a tank perfectly fine if it has to. Druids go squish even in the teens. Shaman also heals better than Druid during the teens due to the mana efficiency obtained from Inner Fire while the Druid equivalent (Skin like Wood) doesn't add health. Skin like Rock does but it doesn't scale enough to be particularly good until after either class gets Healing at 19 anyhow. As damage they're relatively equal. Druid's primary advantage lies in getting root earlier and having snare for stopping runners if necessary.

Spirit of Wolf costs a (relative) lot of mana at lower levels so constantly re-buffing it on a puller or tank who's being constantly stripped makes little to no sense. In a zone like Unrest it's also largely unnecessary since a strafe-running player should be able to outrun about anything in the zone and a ghoul-rooted player isn't outrunning anything.

Danth

[kjs86z]

lol @ ogre shaman comment

try troll

[Cecily]

Comparing a level 9 shaman's mana pool to a level 14 druid's is a very good argument.

[Videri]

I’d like to add that iDoTs are a waste unless they tick for near full duration, so if your group has reasonable kill speed, you’re better off nuking, even once.

[Cecily]

Point being, shamans have unearned place on hierarchical power structure due to decades of oppression and social stratification deteriorating the self-esteem of an equally competent healer class.

[Cecily]

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

I’d like to add that iDoTs are a waste unless they tick for near full duration, so if your group has reasonable kill speed, you’re better off nuking, even once.

Dear God why? This is why EQ isn't fun anymore. We're talking first 20 levels and min/max mana efficiency strategy. You can melee your way to 20 on most classes.

[enjchanter]

Ghoul root overwrites sow ? What ?

[Tricket]

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

Dear God why? This is why EQ isn't fun anymore. We're talking first 20 levels and min/max mana efficiency strategy. You can melee your way to 20 on most classes.

Have you ever been down to the last bubble of health, praying you don't miss 2 more times in a row or it's over for you?
Pleading to the RNG gods that your next hit is as 12 so you can get the mob to running range, desperate that they miss or hit low so you can survive?
Have you ever You're crippled in movement speed to the point that even strafe-running won't save you - desperate for the mana to cast some heal.. any heal...
Inner fire is 10 mana and heals up to 20 health. that's easily 2-3 mob swings.

We're not min-maxing, we're clinging to life to avoid exp loss.

[LiQuid]

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

Having received an unsolicited SoW from Plush during the first week on Green, I suspect all this guff is just bluster and Plush has the same heart of gold the Blue Plush had.

I don't know who the you are but I can assure you I did no such thing