only until your cleric blocks a huge attack and you lol

 

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I hate to validate Password's block argument, but way back when shamans had access to MoB and there was no +PvE block, I had MoB on my shaman. And he's right, watching my troll lift up his little Galladoria peanut shield and block Golestandt (the old level 80 version) three times in a row was pricelessly funny.

Is it in any way optimal? No. But it's funny.


And the weak link in OP's group is almost always going to be the Champion, so you need the bot that helps him most. At first glance, that means Shaman end regen, damage add, and yes, even the RR5 since Champ is unlikely to have /uses for power. But all of that is offense, and the Champ's weak spot is hit points. Which means the Champ needs defense. So your winner is the Cleric.


DI

BOF

Heal Proc

Spec AF

And hey, CL damage add


End regen potions for standard stuff, add power regen potions for the big stuff.

I now know why some of you who haven't played DAoC in years still come to this forum.

My Lord, it's entertaining!

 

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You ain't kiddin'. This topic devolved into silly pretty fast, though there is good info hidden within. Just have to sort through the silly to find it

 

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yeah nobody trolls as well as i do, thus the signature

 

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This. I've got a RR11 druid and shaman. Now, I never use my shaman, but I could if I really wanted to! I made the shaman first, got him to RR11, decided to try out the druid when the new dragons came out and I started farming adols in the frontiers, never went back once I tried out the druid on keeps.

I do miss the shaman RR5 ability often, but I use the other toys on my druid far more than the Shaman's RR5, and the druid simply had more of them.

 

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one of the best things about daoc is that the sum of a group can be far greater then its parts. because of that you can't look at just druid vs shaman vs cleric. you have to look at the whole group.

druids and clerics never had room in any of my groups. the big thing was always end, and getting end from another place wasnt worth what i gained with a druid or cleric. i could have run a druid or cleric for my keep groups because i liked a bard so i had end, but i preferred running power song or speed 6. sure power song and the sham rr5 isnt necessary with power toys, but for keeps the druid or cleric bring absolutely nothing, the convenience of not bothering with power toys is something. i tried a druid for the haste, but with warden celerity i had no noticeable difference breaking keep doors.

Has it been that long since you've played? Bards can run two songs at once now. Crack and end for keeps, speed and end for travel. Unless you prefer helath regen for some reason.

yeah its been like two or three years.

i dont know if that really changes things though. id just leave speed and power on all the time. but when it comes to keeps its not as critical, it was basically dragons that resulted in my preference for shamans. although i used a healer speced for heals in the group i could have used a cleric or druid speced the same but i cant remember why i prefered the healer. i know i tried a cleric since i already had one with decent rr, i had some reason to create and template a healer. either way i wasnt bringing in a pally or bard so for buffs it had to be shaman.