Important Posts from eqlive boards

[Beafly]

[Sharok]

[Kozinad]

[jdthomas]

[Neau]

[Sharok]

[Tugela]

[kroe]

From my perspective (ok, my shaman is now a bot to my main - and my post count is below 100, even though I read this site every day - so Jaraman can ignore any comments I make ) often, my worst enemy is time. Time to do what I need/want to do 'in combat' and still use the superior active mana regen that shaman have.

What would I like? Pained Memory/Ancient: Ancestral Calling cast time to be either 3.0sec (hence affected by spell haste) or reduced to 0.5sec / 1.0sec cast time. A change like that would give the shaman absolutely no benefit out of combat, but would give you more time to use mana 'in-combat' and uses less resources (time in my opinion is one of the most valuable resources - and having to spend that resource in active mana regen during combat is one area I could see us being improved).

[Kellenial]

[Jaraman]

[Tugela]

[Brohg]

Who's "we", paleface?

[Scowls]

"we" are the ones held back and relegated to mediocre along with most other classes because of rytans absolute and never-changing views. if all classes have something to complain about,, we are equal.

[runeshaman]

[Jaraman]

[runeshaman]

[Tugela]

[Tugela]

[Jaraman]

[Ughbash]

[Jaraman]

[Tugela]

[runeshaman]

[Chutoi]

[Ughbash]

[Ungkor]

Chutoi, I agree. Its fairly hard without almost a complete redesign of shaman.

But the immediate thing that would alleviate some of the burden of our spell system would be to make the canni spell either passive, or remove it altogether and retune our spells accordingly. Leave the canni AA as a means to gain mana while our gems are down. Or, instead of lower our spell cost, put the power of the spell into the AA, and then maintain its power with AA upgrades that are level strict.

What that would at least give us, is the abilty to cast more meaningful spells instead of spending a good junk of our time trying to restore our mana.

But really, that is just a bandaid. The devs should have nearly completely overhauled all shaman casting when they chose to mess with regen rates. The devs have (probably rightly so) concluded that faster gameplay, and burst is more fun. Unfortunately, shaman are built from the ground up to be anti burst hehe.

[Beafly]

I agree with both of you. More mana via bigger canni or reduced spell costs is not the answer. We can unload our mana pool in just about the same time as it takes a druid or cleric, but we have a lot less impact in that time. If fights go faster and out of combat regen increases significantly our current capabilities become marginalized.

[Kozinad]

[Chutoi]

[Ungkor]

[KB]

[shamuofxev]

[Unmei]

[Chutoi]

[Chutoi]

[shamuofxev]

[Ungkor]

[Unmei]

[Chutoi]

[Ungkor]