by Siluuael » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:16 am
A little background:
My main is an 80 necro with a 65 warrior alt on that account. I started a shaman box account because, well, leveling a warrior without having your own healer stinks. The plan was to keep the shaman and warrior roughly together in terms of progression, farming a mix of group, old world raid gear, etc. to have the warrior be a viable tank and the shaman a viable healer at each level. Then, once the shaman was high enough level, I'd start boxing him with my necromancer. Got both the warrior and shaman to level 65 with a mix of qvic and DSH/LP gear. So far so good.
This all broke down during LGuk/BB. In order to successfully solo there with my necromancer, I needed to bring my then 65 shaman along for slows/VPing adds. In doing so, I hit the wall at around 250ish AAs at 65. There just wasn't that much more of significant value that I could buy that would help the shaman in his role of slow/debuff/keeping my necro pet alive and, eventually, DoT dps. I decided to level him. Once BB came out, I decided that the benefit of level 71 and all that gear and the better spells/AAs would be worth it.
So... I now have a 71 shaman with ~300AAs that sometimes groups with a 65 warrior, sometimes with an 80 necromancer, performing two vastly different roles in each situation (slow/panther/heal). Here's the kicker... I also spend a lot of time farming totally random stuff for all of our toons / alts / boxes with a friend (80 mage / 80 cleric box primarily, but has tons of other toons). This includes SoF named, LDoN raids, epic mobs, primals, CoD, etc.
Long story short, I guess healing / debuffing would be my current main role. I have a decent mana pool for my level (11.2k) but still eat mana alive, especially when we do LDoN raids and everyone is getting hit (so I tend to run champ/Ghost/panther). What are the best AAs I should pursue, given my current purchases? My thoughts are the following AAs in this approximate order:
Spiritual Channeling
Greater Rabid Bear (max for lvl 71)
Union of Spirits1
Healing Boon (max for lvl 71)
Healing Adept (max for lvl 71)
Healing Gift (max for lvl 71)
???
Really, I'm not sure what I should pursue after Healing Gift. I have VP3, Canni, Call of the Wild, Ancestral Aid4, some defensives, quickbuff3, SCRM... am I missing any 'key' shaman AAs for level 71 which will help me in any of the situations described above? Thanks in advance.
- 83 Dark Elf Necromancer (main)
- 71 Barbarian Warrior (alt)