(https://i.imgur.com/QyLurxK.jpg)
"Fight or flight indicates a permanent choice, but flight often means putting off the fight to another day. Choose your battles wisely."
Fight or flight? Perhaps enough focus and reflex to balance it out and stay alive ^^;
The newest addition to the family, a shaman, is not an easy character to play. Potentially one of the most stressful ones I had the chance to try. Yet the unique, risky playstyle, and the required concentration is what made it worthwhile for me.
I separate this toon's style into 2 "modes", let's call them:
1) "Safety First" - keeping energy armor up at all times, hiding behind menhir wall
2) "YOLO" "Thrill-Seeking" - using energy armor only in most dire situations, trying to proc sacred rage as often as possible
The second playstyle wasn't planned since the beginning, only when I saw the synergy between necrosis and frightening power, I decided to use it this way. Even though it's not listed on the skill, frightening power has a cooldown, there seems to be at least a ~4 seconds break before it can proc again. Nonetheless it's a viable strategy.
(https://i.imgur.com/KGYXJ5R.png)
Performance in legendary: 5/10 (very squishy if not being careful enough)
Performance in 6-players difficulty: ~4/10 (it's not impossible, but probably not a good idea to farm in sp with this one)
Party support ~6.5/10 (maxed energy armor, rune of life, permanent covenant, spirit ward)
Fun meter: 1-8/10 (depending on irl stress levels, not a chill farming char, but I often enjoy characters that demand my full attention)
Uniqueness: 8/10 (mainly because of the utilization of sacred rage)
Skill tree - rune:
(https://i.imgur.com/ZkCKLVl.jpg)
Skill tree - spirit:
(https://i.imgur.com/P6hg7Tb.jpg)
Items:
(https://i.imgur.com/GbxFvhn.png)
*I use x2 Touch of Nyx as a swap weapon to cast energy armor
MI / upgraded:
(hallowed) Night Mistress's Crown (of divination)
(puncturing) Nidbow (of the storm) <3
(plato's) Demonskin Walkers (of might)
(staunch) Ring of the Dragon Hunter (of clout)
(insulated) Torc of the Ancestors (of spirit)
(stalwart) Feng Xao's Meditation Robes (of fortitude)
Legendary difficulty - Tower of Judgement (@3:00 I go yolo mode):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jORxAL43uOg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jORxAL43uOg)
Legendary 6-players difficulty - Asgard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpEAuCULBIE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpEAuCULBIE)