Classes: The Shaman

Shamen - primitive power. The only magic using class of the barbarians, ogres and trolls, shamen get a variety of spells that combine aspects of most of the other magic using classes. This combination, along with the racial strength, means the class can be played in a variety of different ways.

What is the best way to develop and play your shaman? What spells and skills are the most and least useful? Can a shaman be soloed, and if so how? How should you play your shaman in a group?

Post your strategies on how to best play and develop the Shaman and read, rate and comment on what others have to say.

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#1 Sep 02 2004 at 4:36 PM Rating: Decent
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Quick question. I have a level 12 Shaman in Bristlebane, And I keep getting stunned. How can I reduce the rate which i get stunned? What stats helps prevent that?

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#2 Sep 03 2004 at 4:56 AM Rating: Decent
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Dexterity is the stat that helps you avoid being hit.

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#3 Sep 08 2004 at 6:25 PM Rating: Good
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Actually, agility is the stat that helps avoid being hit (dexterity improves your chances of hitting something in melee).
As for the best way to avoid frontal stuns -- be an ogre shaman.
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#4 Sep 08 2004 at 6:55 PM Rating: Decent
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He's right. I stand corrected.

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#5 Sep 16 2004 at 10:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Thanks for all your help!
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#6 Oct 08 2004 at 9:26 AM Rating: Decent
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ogre is the cure for everything=)
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#7 Oct 09 2004 at 1:40 AM Rating: Decent
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You know, I read the lat thread and this one and I just don't feel that stun is such a big deal. It has never discomforted me much. Am I missing something?

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#8 Oct 09 2004 at 2:30 AM Rating: Decent
If you don't want to get stunned and don't want to pick an ugly race like and Ogre just cast root, dot and repeat till the mob is dead.. No need to become a big, bald, and goofy looking Ogre.. Now if they looked like Shrek you might have something there.. I won't wear a dress like the Barbarians do.. I'll stick with my tail and my scaley behind thanks hehe.
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#9 Oct 10 2004 at 8:44 AM Rating: Decent
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Well, of course, with a tail and a scaley behind you couldn't wear a dress. And I'd hate to tell ya what happened to the last mob that laughed at my knees...

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#10 Oct 10 2004 at 12:56 PM Rating: Decent
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Well root doesnt always stick and also can drop with your dots realy easy, also if you play a Barb shaman side by side to an Ogre shaman youll notice the diff. If all youve played is stunnable characters youre prolly just use to it. If your not uber ordont have the best gear in the world(new) ogres are the way to go because of that extra STA/STR you dont have to worry buying for as much. In no time youre STR/STA will be pushing 200 while others are seemingly in the mid 100's, all because you lost 10 WIS because you are supposedly "stupid". If a mob is smacking you all the time and its a stunner class you wont be able to cast many times, imo it is rather annoying. once again though some cant stand the looks of an ogre and that makes their final decision. Whatever makes you happy to play i guess is the true bottom line, mine being Ogre of course hehe. My 2cp worth=)
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#11 Oct 11 2004 at 7:20 AM Rating: Decent
Thing is Wisdom is one of those stats we can not increase with spells really.. Have to get a Enchanter cast something like Kei for it to really be noticable. I find it easy to increase my Strength and Stamina alot easier than my Wisdom. We need mana alot more than the need to worry about a stun. I have not been stunned to often in my climb up in levels. I find the higher I go my Hitpoints, AC, and Wisdom playing a larger role. The only thing I can not increase on my own without augments or spells from other classes is Wisdom. It is also on how you play your Shaman, and I have found my Iskar Shaman to be just fine. Has the highest starting wisdom of all the Shaman playing classes. Only thing I hate is the exp penelty which really bites on the slow crawl past 66.
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#12 Oct 11 2004 at 7:37 AM Rating: Decent
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I won't wear a dress like the Barbarians do..

It's not a dress, its a kilt! :D
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#13 Oct 12 2004 at 6:55 AM Rating: Decent
A Kilt it is.. It is too bad the Iskar, whom I like can not wear anything other than cloth, leather, or chain armor. They say that our scales prevent us from wearing plate and such without irrtitating our scales. Something about natural ac and durability.. I have never noticed the stun, and I do get stunned, but I usually get a root off somewhere along the line and get some distance to reapply a dot or two. I use my sow line to my advantage and my pet's taunting to give the mob a pause. I have soloed this way in PoV this way, and it works out pretty nice.. Have done a few mobs in BoT, but they have pretty high hitpoints and the pay off is not that great.
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#14 Oct 13 2004 at 4:32 AM Rating: Decent
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Really, I don't understand what the big deal is. If I do get stunned it's probably for no more than a second or two and it never happens repeatedly. I can't say being stunned has ever made a difference in the outcome of a fight one way or the other. The only exception would be when a bunch of mobs are beating the crap outta me. But then it's pretty certain nowadays that in that situation I'm gonna get killed anyway. I kinda remember hating being stunned when I was a baby in Everfrost but I don't even consider it now.




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#15 Oct 19 2004 at 8:39 AM Rating: Decent
I have made the mistake of pulling every mob for example in FoB and even though they are all green to me at 62 (at the time, 66 going on 67 now), they hit hard and were giving me a pounding. There was around 30-40 mobs I think..Badgers, Skeletons of various types, Scorpians and Iskar Bandits etc.. I found I had to cast a heal now and then till me and my pet could take them out. I cast a aoe dot which almost got me too as the mobs ran to me and it kept dotting them and of course in rained on me too.. It helps to have someone else make the parade and you just cast an aoe when they bring them by you. Some mobs stun more than others, and being stunned is no real biggy as long as it is only 2-3 maybe even 4 mobs attacking you. And of course in the GoD, and OoW zones I really do not want to tank the mob till he turns to run away, as they can hit hard. I have yet to find a rythem in those zones for doing a mob by myself.. I'll practice in the PoP zones where I have had better luck.
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