Shaman advice needed.

[old.chesnor]

What tactics do shamans use to avoid instant death when jumped in the frontiers. I have a lvl24 shaman in Thidranki atm, and I rock at range with 24 cave, but I am meat if anyone starts beating down on me. Thus, if I get jumped, I die. Most other healing classes get either specced weapon or some form of instas. But for my shaman with an unspecced hammer and no get out of jail free card, its hardly worth even fighting back..

Advice?

 

[Fafnir]

Pray to your god and run like hell.

 

[old.willowywicca]

get the insta DD+root RA that shamans have.. or, don't get jumped spin that camera baby, yeah yeah!!

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

As far as I'm aware, without getting the RA Ichor Of The Deep, shammies have no quick getaway from any agro of any type whatsoever.

Without quickcast or an insta root of some type you can only hit the sprint button and hope you don't get rooted yourself.

Unless of course, someone knows different

 

[mavericky]

Ichor is the shamans life save, followed by purge both are RA's so are not going to happen in the BG's. The only none RA means of escape comes at level 27 cave. PBAOE disease (with a 15% snare). As long as no snare is on you, you can sprint away and there spint speed will be slightly less. It isnt really great but is all we have. Next patch we get our endurance buffs, so can sprint for longer thankfully, this will be our main effective means of escape.

 

[Freia]

Originally posted by old.chesnor
What tactics do shamans use to avoid instant death when jumped in the frontiers.
Advice?

Run in a group. If you dont have speed or stealth then you need to find a group with speed. Simple as that.

... oh yeah, you could always sprint.

 

[carrot head]

well first thing is DONT SAVE ICHOUR for getting away emergances use it offencivly at every oppertunity u can.

if u get jumped well tough try the instant desease and sprinting away that sometimes works but not often.

basicaly a shaman wont servive if alone and jumped unless well jammy

 

[Fafnir]

Ohhh my fav shammy has spoken. And he knows what he is talking about.

 

[SilverHood]

get long wind and sprint away

then root

do your thing

or run further

 

[akula]

time your casts, if it's against a 2h wep user, you will cast root inside the swing time

 

[malenka]

To be honest, you die, unless some kind realm mate comes to your rescue. I use sprint a lot, even with group skald speed.

Ichor is good if you are some way from the enemy, but if you are close up, it breaks very easily. Also, most ppl in the frontier have purge.
Insta disease is fairly useless, can't remember the last time I used it.
Melee - well it takes a long time to down a tank at 70 ish per hit

Wait until you are in the frontier at level 50. If you go full (or nearly full) cave spec, you will be targeted by the enemy as one of the first to kill. Now is the time to learn your strategies and then become a killer shammy