Anyone that told you that canni spells can't kill you should get a special place on your ignore list.

Canni 5 is the only canni I haven't killed myself with and I know it's only a matter of time for that one too.

Canni 5 is the reason most, if not all, high level shaman say HP is more important than any other stat. If you don't have 2500 buffed HP, using canni 5 anywhere near anything even remotely dangerous is a death sentence. Blood aggro will finish you off even if you actually do survive the canni itself.

Most high level Shaman have stories about the time the cannied themselves to death in the middle of a raid. Some are actually funny too.

lol there are many clever and creative ways shammys can kill themselves with spells, cannabalize is only one. I, for one, learned the hard way not to have my cannabalize and heal spells right next to each other on the spell bar....

Canni 5 can kill you both directly, and indirectly, as stated by Cattywumpus =).

If you don't have enough HP, of course, it will kill you.

There are those encounters, also stated by Cattywumpus, where low hp agro kills you. Especially when you are battle rezzed and such, and need mana ASAP, but are not yet HP buffed.

And then... there are those times when you canni while being hit and end up killing yourself because the healers can't keep up with the damage intake. For example. the last time my guild cleared killed Ikkinz2, we had 4~5 monsters mezzed in the entrance hall, because of an overpull. I ran up, slowed, crippled, and malos'd them all, then sat down. My guild leader jokingly told me I'd better get ready to tank them ;). We all laughed (I'm notorious for dying on my guild's raids), and I moved back to everyone else. My mana was low, so I clicked my Mass Canni hot key, just as 3 of the mezzes wore off at the same time. 3 kyv's doubling on me for 1200, coupled with the 1900+ canni damage... heh heh, thank the Tribunal for clicky-sticks ;). (I think i died a total of 9 times that raid)




P.S. Hurting yourself has its benefits, aside from gaining mana. In PvP, if you get rooted, canni'ing counts as being nuked, so it breaks root. Just a lil tip ;).

I know this is a bumb of a few months, but I was wondering whether killing yourself with Canni (of any sort) does a xp hit against you, or is it like a duel, and no hit? (Have not died yet with canni, but gotten close a few times)

Have found out on another board http://crucible.samanna.net/index.php that dieing by Canni of any sort does take xp away from you <sigh> lol. Guess is not a Get Out Of Trouble Free card, if too many mobs on you.

Canni is an instant one-time conversion of HP to mana. You lose the HP and gain the mana as soon as the spell casts.