Best slow?

[Burley]

High im a returning player and i have a 90 shaman. What is the best new slow at lvl 90? I have been gone a while and i dont wanna get in a group and use the wrong spell you know. Thanks for info in advanced.

[WaringMcMarrin]

For normal use the best one would be the AA slow Turgur's Swarm

[warador]

i always use counterbias because of the healing bonus and if its gonna be a long fight then cast the aa

[Ughbash]

I start with couterbias as it will usually get in wihtout malos.
I AA malos right after when spell gems are cooling down.
Then I use Talisman of Lion.
Then when spell gems are cooling down I hit AA slow.

That gives me two shots of slowing a mob, once right away and once after it has been Malosed.

Question for the shamans mains though..... Now that Feralisera works on all attack types instead of jsut 1hb, do you find it worth doing or not?

[Sowslow]

[warador]

what spell isnt worth buying?

[Sowslow]

Sorry my response was for Ughbash and Feralisera is not worth buying.

[warador]

ah agree i never use it either

[scrat]

You guys mind explaining, in a "Feralisa for Dummies" approach - why this spell is not worth buying i.e. using for groups?

[Sowslow]

[scrat]

Huh, I'd have to say it transforms bodytype to animal...instead of only usable on animals. This is what the spdat says, and my necro absolutely gets plant/animal bane dmg bonus when this spell is applied. I know for a fact it works on non-animals i.e. humanoids, monsters, undead, etc.

I guess my personal box group of nec/war/shm makes this a decent spell for me. My shaman INC macros run aa malo > counterbias > HoT > Lion > spell malo for magic bonus > feralisa. I don't DoT or nuke at all with the shaman; my necro does the killing. I have noticed a lot of named are flagged as immune to this spell for whatever, guessing the change bodytype portion. But, it increases my war & pets dps, decreases mob dmg some & boosts necro dps a little. So I use it, frequently, when i'm alone. Just like using spell malo for the increased magic dmg from necro DoTs - I sorta try to maximize what I got.


When i'm grouped with my regular friends (which includes monk/rogue/shm) I dont play my shaman; we run a secondary group for support (me=enchanter, buddy=wiz). In this case my chanter macro on inc is spell tash > slivered conscious debuff > confusing constriction dot/debuff > big nuke. I know my buddy also uses feralisa, low priority - but it pops in the target window frequently. He does it for the increased melee dmg. I'll have to ask if his wifes' pinpoint discs overwrite it; pretty sure he doesnt use this on named as he's too busy keeping my war alive.

Then again, you guys may be viewing this spell value purely from a raid viewpoint?

[Sowslow]

What you observe a mob type to be does mean much of anything as to what it is actually is tagged as.
If you are looking at Lucy for data, refer to unknown212 for the type restriction. There are whole crap load of types and you will have no way of knowing based on just looking.

Can you post parses of this doing anything? I have tried in numerous betas and on test, with a war and mage pet to show it doing anything to increase any type of melee damage. So far nothing, but I am still open to it doing something even if very small.

I don't know anything about the increase in necro dps.