by Arkendar » Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:41 pm
Well, I'm coming back to EQ for at least a month. Any further than that will be decided at the end of the month.
I decided to not come back to my rerolled 3box (Mage/bard/necro), and went back to my original main..My monk. (Currently 83/ 677 AAs) .
Now, I do have two accounts running, my monk, and then my mage/shaman account.
Mage is lvl 80, 550 ish AAs, shaman is 75, 100 AAs.
Obviously, the most popular box account for a monk is the shaman, but I always have a hard time playing my shaman, even as a box. He was pretty much powerleveled to 75, and the only thing I really know how to do on him is to cast his buffs. His gear is pretty crappy (think he has 10k mana or less), so he doesn't really have the mana to be casting nukes and DoTs all day, however..
My general setup for his spells is to have all of his group buffs that he has.. Think that's the str, agi, haste, Lassitude, Panther, Champion, That..dodge one?, Dire focusing. Then he has a slow, and two others, I can't remember. Only thing I've ever managed to make myself do for him is to cast slow on stronger things (named pulls that will take more than 20-30 seconds), otherwise I just cast group panther and turn on autoattack while my monk has lassitude on.
So he adds a little bit of DPS, never really heals or anything, and I then just get bored of having him around. So I stop logging him on, and end up just soloing on my monk.
It's to the point where if I want to 2box, I'll just log on my mage instead. I actually have fun on my mage because I feel he's contributing something to the group.
However, I also believe having a shaman/monk duo would probably be more..Suitable. Probably works better than having two DPS classes?
So, this post is mostly along the lines of "What the hell can I do on my shaman to make him more than a buffbot?" I don't know the class, at all, especially after numerous breaks. I don't know what half the spells do, or what I should be casting, or when I should be casting it. Any tips or tricks anyone can recommend that might make me want to level/gear him and actually use him over my mage would be much appreciated.
Thanks!