Shaman's ultimate defensive hotkey

[Xphobe]

[Zann]

[Xphobe]

[shamuofxev]

nice hotkey, just the title is wrong. It should be called

[Giac]

It makes no sense to tie so many defensive tools in a single hotkey. Not all situations require you to blow them all at once.

[Xphobe]

[Giac]

[Felstaff]

[Mukkul]

[darkpaw]

[Xphobe]

[Jaraman]

[anaskesia]

[Ungkor]

[ThraallFV]

[Brohg]

[Ungkor]

[Neau]

[Brohg]

[Giac]

[Ungkor]

[Brohg]

3 out of 3 full time shm in my guild have Time's Antithesis. 5 out of 6 guilded main shaman overall, plus another 3 or 4 of the significant shm bots also have it. I coordinate my efforts based on what I see actually yawn, not on what people say they're doing. Enchanters don't slow, beastlords sometimes try if they're feeling saucy (they use slow to gain agro for offtanking, I believe), and I tell you what, I flat out ignore any debuff messages I see, regardless. If Malos doesn't bounce, I don't believe the "I've cast sinia on it... promise!" spam. Who really knows if they got interrupted, or resisted and didn't notice, or fatfingered the key while reaching for the Mt. Dew? If I didn't see a mob yawn, I'm not going to believe it's debuffed until I do (by doing it myself). It costs very little time to be sure, and the expense of a little attention is much worse than the potential destruction wreaked by a mob who, it turns out, wasn't REALLY debuffed this time. Not to put too fine a point on it, but how do you know the whacko at the keyboard isn't using a slow hotkey to pace his own retarded drinking game, and all you're really reading about in /rs is when the next shot glass hits the table upside down? (It was REALLY hard not to make a pms joke there instead of the drinking thing. I hope all the ladies in the audience appreciate what a gentleman I am!) So no, no debuffing spam on trash at all. If someone is too busy to help out slowing trash, they're too busy and that's it. Others will cover.

If you're honestly worried about someone slacking too much, having them tap a social every couple minutes doesn't really assure you that they're not, anyhow. Check your logs for "Soandso begins to cast a spell." Count it up. The YALP parser has a search that does this nicely. Compare the number to shm that you already have faith in, and yourself.

On raid targets, the first person to cast calls their Malos in the shaman channel. It's unresistable, so once it's going, it's done. The first person to land Turgur calls that.

There's a blissful dearth of spam in our shm channel; we use it mostly for badmouthing lazy rangers and prima donna tanks. It's nice.

[Giac]

[Ungkor]