Shaman Conjure elemental

[Wobb]

While i think a shaman conjuring an elemental is somewhat out of place...I miss it! I group with a shaman a lot and have noticed that the spirit is, frankly, useless. Unless a shaman is solo I guess it has its uses..but in a group setting it's almost pointless. so perhaps elementals from a shaman would be too.

So what am I trying to say?

I dunno.

(previously wrote upgrade spirits here)

not sure what the solution is...

Wobb




[This message has been edited by Wobb (edited 06-12-2001).]

[Kiloppile]

Upgrade something to do with shamans? There's a new one!

Seriously, elementals are utterly worthless as they stand now, so adding that spell back would be silly. Spirits are *not* worthless, but they're also not going to tank 50th level mobs. They're quite useful for soloing, emergency rescues, corpse retrievals, many other things.

[Tanolm]

yeah they farqed us with the spirits but its ok cause shamans serve different purposes now anyway

[rylan]

_upgrade_ spirits? *boggle*

Um.. ok. I guess you haven't tried soloing stuff yet with them. I see waaaay too many higher lvl shamans soloing the crap outta big mobs with spirits.

[Ubek]

Get a necro, they can heal spirits too..

[Wobb]

They (spirits) just seem pointless. Level 30 shaman gets 200 hp spirit.

Now yes, with the appropriate combo of spells they are nice...and can do a lot. But then to have summon totem 3 times a week, i guess this post belongs in that other thread about frequency of summons...

I still think they blow..just my opinion.

Wobb

[Todrael]

At least twice we have used Rivi's spirit as the main tank on the Spirit Raven, tanking every mob there, and not once did it die. These mobs are easily level 55+, and can hit like trucks.

-Todrael

[Xizz]

And once I tried to solo a level 55+ mob and he hit my spirit like a runaway truck! two rounds stone gone, three attacks a round. However as a comparison, ghouls eat stones more consistently and wraiths are just way too small to start with.

Also it seems that after a certain level, either your skill level determines the size of the spirit or else they cap pretty early. So the biggest spirit would be around level 40, which means they don't tank level 55 mobs well at all.

Rivi rivi

[This message has been edited by Xizz (edited 06-13-2001).]