Shamans....Melee or Malo?

[Wrider]

atm I have just over 3K mana with KEI and I'm finding it difficult to melee and debuff the mobs because I'm running oom to soon. I am canaballising but it just doesn't do enough atm. Would be greatfull for suggestion...obviously the mobs would be slowed first but after that is it better to melee or malo and dissempower? my 1HB is 16/22 so I hit pretty well. By the time Wrider is using AM and EQ Astarix should have enough mana to fight and fully debuff the mob.... I'm open to try many diferent techniques so all comments appreciated on this topic and others that you think may apply to a shammy just about to hit the 50's (2 Blue's to go..Woot!)

Thanks Peeps

[Arro]

Have hunted with many Shaman but have never seen one Melee before.

Get a horsie or Drog, sick yer doggie on the mob, then sit back and rake in the mana! :wink:

[Tenamas]

I see some high end shaman using melee. I would say that malo and gaining your mana is more important than the little bit of dps. Even with a nice ratio weapon shaman weren't gifted with the weapon skill to use it really well. Sick your puppy dog on the mob and call it good. Debuffing and malo will end up doing more dmg than your melee(no double attk, crit hit, or any other melee skill)skills will do because the mobs will be weakened. If you find yourself with fm and things are good, then sure feal free to beat the piss outta the mob. But a shaman in the group has a different role than melee imo. This reminds me a lot of a ranger nuking or healing in a group. Yes technically they can do both....but wtf for?

[Nipy]

Hi Wrider, OK heres how i did it and i am not saying you should do it im giving this as an option that i found around that level.

First ill try the mana saving way for a shammy in a group:

- If Slow lands before u put malo on technically u prolly wont need it for the fight unless others are getting resisted alot and if there is a mage in your group or a ench u could ask them to Malo and/or Tash.

- Always keep the best regen on you as possible, this seriously helps so u dont have to keep healing after Canning a few times, When i use Canni i try Never to heal myself becuase it beats the point of getting that extra mana.

- Personally by lvl 50 i had slowed down on hitting mobs with melee due to mobs taking far to many hps too easily or mana not regening fast enpough to be worth it, Example, Say you had 2 bubs of mana left and u thought it would be a good idea to help melee so u didnt use any mana but it doesnt regen as fast, u then get trained by 2 extra mobs althought for the first mob u had the 2 mana was fine for taking an extra one mob the extra 2 means u have to run again taking away from trying to level and possibly killing people and slowing down your expo run which ultimatly is why we need the mana constantly right? where if u had sat down on the ground for an extra 6 - 7 ticks u could have got almost another 1.5m or something which would be more than enought for the 2x slow if no resists, extra heals as the adds will make healing hard and any extra spells that are needed.

OK i think ill typed to much and ill swaying from the subjects hehe personally i would say only use malo if u are having more than 3 resists a fight other wise its not worth the spell slot or the extra mana/time before u can slow. ( higher levels malos HAS to be done first to stand a chance of landing a slow )

Wridfer speak to me in game so u can dirrect my answers more i go off subject to much.

[Wrider]

Thanks guys, malo it is :D