bolts have a different resist check btw (50%) since also AF is involved in the formula


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Bolts check on AF too (this is like the third time this will be mentioned in the thread)...

 

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jesus, i saw that skippy. Get off your high horse their l33tist. And it was stated:

""No they won't. If they have a clue they will nuke. As already mentioned bolts factor in armor for 50%. Bolting a chain wearing shaman is not a good idea. ""

My shamans AF is fairly good...next reply?

It's your general attitude that you reply to people who guess incorrect scenarios, but won't reply to the people who make the valid points. You got your answers. Next?

 

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playing a shaman isn't about doing significant damage with your dots. daoc is a game where by design, not all classes can do everything. In some games, there are different specs for every class that allow them to dps/heal/tank, but not daoc. Your role in fights (which is one of the most important roles) is to shear/disease/root etc.

By comparison, a wizzy's role is to blow things up as quickly as possible. They pay for this in the way of extremely low survivability, and low health etc. Nearly any class will die to two wizzies free casting on them for 3+ casts each, which is the way that it should be.

I can see why you would think resists aren't doing much for you, but look at it closer. The wizzy surely has 10% spellpierce, so there your resists start at 40%. If they used traldor's charge, there is another 5% pierce, bringing out to 35% resists. Throw on top of this their debuff, and your resists are down to 20% - lower than a good template's base resists (if you have ever been hit by nukes while you had sub par resists you will know how badly it can hurt). You can see how quickly your resists disappear. Then, add in depending on relics 10% or 20% to their damage, and you can see why they hit so hard. Just imagine if you only had 26% resists, then would basically be nuking you as if you were naked. Believe me, the resists do alot even if it doesn't seem like it.

Also keep in mind there are different tiers of resists. Getting RA's such as AoM and EM can increase your resists in other tiers, which can help when you are getting bursted down.

How much damage you do/receive is all about how you character is set up, shamen have the unique ability to set themselves up in so many ways (be it damage, survivability, healing etc) you just need to find what works best for you. That being said, anytime 2x+ casters are free casting on your for more than 1 cast you ARE going to die, resists just give you a few more seconds to try to los/get out of range/interrupt

Hope this helps at all

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A shaman's job is to interrupt which it has tons of utility to do so. Just using aoe buff Shears and disease is enough, spec'ing cave for the additional toys is just cream.

 

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Guys, I fully understand a Shaman's role in RVR. My overall question was pertaining to resists. That plus my baseline DoT damage variance VS the DoT spike from the Infil. I also was curious about realm casters. I'm wondering if anyone is reading the OP...although I know its long.

Rm is energy and cold. Unless u count the supp baseline, which are rare these days unless set 8mans.

 

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Your baseline dot probably has a lot of variance because you're not high cave spec. Also it's a baseline spell so it won't hit as hard.

If you want to make a mid DPS caster make a RM. If you want to make a mid caster that's incredibly cheesy make a BD.

SMs are good too. They're a very simple F8 nuke class with an intercepting pet and backup mez. Very useful.

Warlocks kind of suck but they have their place. A well timed DD+chamber dump can drop an overextending tank but other than that they're a bad debuff with a super long range NS, a handy insta every 10 seconds and a few casts worth of MoC. Or I guess you could go WC and be a powerless spreadheal bot and UI LT facepounder.

 

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powerless spreadheal? they removed that

 

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