SandDemon
04-28-2006, 08:57 AM
Alright, since there hasn't been a good shaman thread in awhile about this....or even a current talent build sticky ever, thought I'd bring it up since I harrassed Cynapse lately about it.
I've decided to level a shaman on Dethecus and I really don't care for the leveling stages of life so I plan on trying to make this fast and efficient as possible.....so some things I've learned so far.
-Most important talent to aim for first is 2hander weapons
-Shocks are not mana efficient, keep rank 1 earth shock for stopping spells
-Totems aren't mana efficient besides Searing Totem
-Use rockbiter until windfury, then use just that.
-Improved lightning shield is good and your best damage/mana ratio.
-After 2hander talent, you can go restoration if you plan to heal or elemental if you plan to solo/pvp.
-Clearcasting is good if you spam 30mana earthshock to use it on a free 300+ mana shock.
So just some more grinding questions:
1) Since searing totem is worth the mana for the damage, is it worth boosting this with the 20% talent or the 10% fire talent? Is the cheaper totem talent worth getting?
2) What other "key" talents are in the Enhancement line for grinding? Thinking Parry would be nice right?
3) Stoneclaw worth anything at all? Seems to never grab aggro from me (wanted to spam lightning bolts if I could while it paid attention to it)
4) Flurry worth dealing with if you've got a 2hander and grinding?
5) Combat Endurance - is it just me or is this talent crap? Maybe with a troll....but I'm an orc so bleh.
And finally, final game question:
1) Is it more important to grab +healing or +regen as a shaman since they have no real way to get mana back in combat?
2) In pvp, assuming you got improved SoE and improved GoA totems, wouldn't that be around 1k AP to your group? Worth more than a windfury totem to melee groups?
3) Any necessary addons out there besides TotemTimer/AnkhTimer for just shamans?
4) How viable are the pvp sets for a shaman? I know they're usually nice but are there better or comparable alternatives elsewhere or no?
5) Is it 1str=2ap, 1agil=1ap for shamans?
And anything else ya guys want to give out as advice would be helpful. Did you guys down Ouroa or whatever his name is last night?
I've decided to level a shaman on Dethecus and I really don't care for the leveling stages of life so I plan on trying to make this fast and efficient as possible.....so some things I've learned so far.
-Most important talent to aim for first is 2hander weapons
-Shocks are not mana efficient, keep rank 1 earth shock for stopping spells
-Totems aren't mana efficient besides Searing Totem
-Use rockbiter until windfury, then use just that.
-Improved lightning shield is good and your best damage/mana ratio.
-After 2hander talent, you can go restoration if you plan to heal or elemental if you plan to solo/pvp.
-Clearcasting is good if you spam 30mana earthshock to use it on a free 300+ mana shock.
So just some more grinding questions:
1) Since searing totem is worth the mana for the damage, is it worth boosting this with the 20% talent or the 10% fire talent? Is the cheaper totem talent worth getting?
2) What other "key" talents are in the Enhancement line for grinding? Thinking Parry would be nice right?
3) Stoneclaw worth anything at all? Seems to never grab aggro from me (wanted to spam lightning bolts if I could while it paid attention to it)
4) Flurry worth dealing with if you've got a 2hander and grinding?
5) Combat Endurance - is it just me or is this talent crap? Maybe with a troll....but I'm an orc so bleh.
And finally, final game question:
1) Is it more important to grab +healing or +regen as a shaman since they have no real way to get mana back in combat?
2) In pvp, assuming you got improved SoE and improved GoA totems, wouldn't that be around 1k AP to your group? Worth more than a windfury totem to melee groups?
3) Any necessary addons out there besides TotemTimer/AnkhTimer for just shamans?
4) How viable are the pvp sets for a shaman? I know they're usually nice but are there better or comparable alternatives elsewhere or no?
5) Is it 1str=2ap, 1agil=1ap for shamans?
And anything else ya guys want to give out as advice would be helpful. Did you guys down Ouroa or whatever his name is last night?