07-01-2005, 07:09 PM
Nefera,Jul 1 2005, 11:58 AM Wrote:In my experience Shamans are better flag carriers than anyone else. The tactic I've seen used to great effect is running in, dropping a frost restance totem, grabbing the flag, dropping an earthbind totem, shifting to the ghost wolf form, and leaving everyone in their dust. Thinking back it may have been druids that have broken out of snares, and shamans can't shift out of polymorph, but with the distance they can put between you and them is amazing.
Yeah, but... that discussion assumes that everyone on the defensive team was in the flag room, so once the shaman leaves the room, they're free. If the defenders do that, then they're idiots. I assume that most of the defender's team is still between the shaman and his or her home base. The shaman can be tracked down and snared while the defenders in the flag room can mount up and catch up to the shaman from behind (epic mounts really help here). This is the point where druids greatly outshine shamans. Druids can shift out of an amazing variety of snares and thus keep ahead of the people coming up from behind for a while. Plus, once they are being pounded on, druids can shift to bear form and take a massive amount of pounding while the their teammates do what they can to escort them or disrupt the opponents.
Regarding the "stealth" ability of shaman, their names still show up in big bright letters. Those letters are usually what I'm looking for when I'm scanning for enemies.