question bout melee shaman

[ssbilly]

Would anyone group with a melee/dps shaman endgame? or do shamans only take rolls as healer/buffer?

 

[Yally]

healer / buffer. But there is no reason you cant swing your 1 hander / spear between heals /slows/ mala / and canni.

You wont hit too much, but you'll look cool doing it :toot:

Seriously though, there is no such thing as a 'melee shammy' such as you might have in WoW for example. It's fairly cookie cutter here.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that "dps" is a good thing and some of your poison spells are quite nice if you have the mana to spare.

 

[ryutakin]

With certain weapons i've seen a shaman melee but it was mainly for shits and giggles. A shaman constantly dotting is much better dps

 

[ssbilly]

Cool, thanks for the replies. I never played a shammy in WoW (i hated that game), but back when i played the Game I always wondered if it were a possibility.

 

[brasileira]

With certain weapons i've seen a shaman melee but it was mainly for shits and giggles. A shaman constantly dotting is much better dps

Oh.. thats why everytime i logged my shamy in he was with the spear....

Btw i never landed one hit with my shamy, and he have some nice skills

 

[knowom]

You can melee with a shaman, but since you don't have proc buffs of your own nor double attack you'll do terrible damage melee wise. Shamans can be fairly versatile really buff, debuff/slow, heal, dot/pet, root and w/ torpor or the improved version of that line of spell you can tank damn decently depending on the mob or mobs.

 

[yaemz123]

You can melee with a shaman, but since you don't have proc buffs of your own nor double attack you'll do terrible damage melee wise.

Actually shamans do have self buff procs. Divine Rage AA is a melee proc, with 3 levels to purchase... however it's really a waste of AAs if you expect it to make you melee worth anything.