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Can an experienced shammy tell me which spells I should get for my first 3 of each level from 87 to 90.

As they are not that easy to come by atm I want to get value for the money

So far for 86 I've picked up rank 2 of...

Unity of Soul
Talisman of the Tiger
Untamed Growth.

I would naturally assume anything to improve healing, and the 'talisman's of spells, but unsure of the others.

Happy Hunting,
Ridgey

87 - Lethargy - the new lassi
88 - Ascendants Intervention - fast grp emergency heal
88 - Mending Counterbias - slow + HoT
89 - prolly the AE malo
90 - Splash of Glyphdust - this looks an interesting spell, it has a chance to proc a slow, a snare or an AC debuff. To me the AC debuff seems to be the most important thing here - as a shammy you could audio trigger the text "etched by magic glyphdust" and just keep recasting (30s recast) it till you get that one. AC debuff lowers the mobs defensive abilities - it would be the equivalent of adding 554 Atk to everyone = more DPS

Thanks Roxor.

I've managed to get the spell runes for the Lethargy and Ascendant's Intervention atm.

Happy Hunting,
Ridgey

The splash one is pretty crap. Don't know any shammies who used the UF version outside of a play around - the debuff doesn't last long, you aren't guaranteed the debuff you want and you could be doing something else thats more productive (slows/heals/dots/tiger).

Chunk wrote:The splash one is pretty crap.

I actually tried my level 85 version of that on flippy and suddenly I had a number of payers targeted me and starting hitting me for about 10 secs but being another player it didn't harm me... so that spell is a little buggy (85 ver at least).

I'm wondering how good the level 88 counterbias slow is? Says 75%?

Happy Hunting,
Ridgey

Shammy slows have been 75% for a while now, pretty much everything nowadays at least partially mitigates the slow but its still better than no slow at all. The new counterbias is just a new slow with an even better HoT on target's target attached to it (which stacks with shammy and cleric HoTs), so its worth getting and using.

hmm didn't reliase the heal over time from counterbias stacked.. but then only used it in a group game where the HoT wasn't that important

I found the counterbias slows heavily resit able, so I gave up using it. Needed the disease debuff before being casted, and even then that got resisted at times. So the spell became a pain.

I just got the level 83 rank 3 tonight so will see if I have better luck.

Happy Hunting,
Ridgey

I found counterbias so rarely doens't stick that I almost use it exclusively.

not sure about what other's find.. ?

The new 88 counterbias is actually completely unresistable. It will not slow mobs that immune to slow, but it will land 100% of the time. You'd be crazy to use anything else.. a no fail slow + tank hea = win

Your right as always Zam, the level 88 Counterbias works wonders

Happy Hunting,
Ridgey