12-27-2005, 07:54 PM
5400 is quite a bit of mana. It's substantially more then I had at that point. Did you make a point of hunting down a bunch of + int items? I didn't really target gear until I capped.
Maybe I'm overestimating a solo priests ability, as for some goofy reason both of my highlevel characters are hybrids, so I haven't done many instances with just a solo priest. Closest I came was WC with my druid beartanking the whole way.
Who said that? I'm just saying I wouldn't do it strath level stuff in greens and blues solo healing unless I was really confident in my teammates. I'm not saying its impossible, it would just probably exceed my frustration level. E.g., during the strath run I'm using as an example, we explained the cannons to the hunter. We thought he understood, but then didn't do it right. A green/blue shaman wipes, only my purples and the purples on the MT saved the day. That was an important save, because we did wipe on Balthazzar when he MC'd the tank twice (I don't think many parties are going to survive that), but since my ankh was still up, we were able to finish the run (which was nice, since Bal dropped the Truefaith pattern and I made more then 100g :) )
As far as the tanking goes, the baroness doesn't hit very hard, IIRC. I think for the end game stuff we are talking about, we are talking Baron, Balnazzar, Immolthar, and probably Drakksaith. It sounds like doing those with a pally is possible but tough, and pallys want it to be more reasonable (and some are agitating for MC tanking). It's not really reasonable for a shaman to do those.
As far as decursive goes, none of those things sound like game breakers. Would it be annoying? I guess, but if it elimates the fact that decursive is a mindless get out of jail free card, I'm for it. If it breaks Healer Helper, that sounds like a bonus. The emergency monitor is enough of a crutch, IMHO.
Maybe I'm overestimating a solo priests ability, as for some goofy reason both of my highlevel characters are hybrids, so I haven't done many instances with just a solo priest. Closest I came was WC with my druid beartanking the whole way.
Treesh,Dec 23 2005, 03:02 PM Wrote:But I absolutely refuse to listen to folks who say shaman just can't heal.
Who said that? I'm just saying I wouldn't do it strath level stuff in greens and blues solo healing unless I was really confident in my teammates. I'm not saying its impossible, it would just probably exceed my frustration level. E.g., during the strath run I'm using as an example, we explained the cannons to the hunter. We thought he understood, but then didn't do it right. A green/blue shaman wipes, only my purples and the purples on the MT saved the day. That was an important save, because we did wipe on Balthazzar when he MC'd the tank twice (I don't think many parties are going to survive that), but since my ankh was still up, we were able to finish the run (which was nice, since Bal dropped the Truefaith pattern and I made more then 100g :) )
As far as the tanking goes, the baroness doesn't hit very hard, IIRC. I think for the end game stuff we are talking about, we are talking Baron, Balnazzar, Immolthar, and probably Drakksaith. It sounds like doing those with a pally is possible but tough, and pallys want it to be more reasonable (and some are agitating for MC tanking). It's not really reasonable for a shaman to do those.
As far as decursive goes, none of those things sound like game breakers. Would it be annoying? I guess, but if it elimates the fact that decursive is a mindless get out of jail free card, I'm for it. If it breaks Healer Helper, that sounds like a bonus. The emergency monitor is enough of a crutch, IMHO.