SBI [Hero] Zero the Mechanist
Shaman Gear?
What about a pseudo-tanky condi pet build using Invigorating Bond? It feels like that traits has some hidden potential, but i have yet to really crack it. Maybe it’s just my gear, Shaman’s looks like it would be a lot better for it.
I’ve used this gear in the past, but I found it to simply not be a good choice overall. Mind you I really only used in on an engineer instead of a ranger.
Building your vitality in exchange for toughness can possibly help you survive some spike damage, but it can compromise your long term sustainability. Using shaman’s gear also provides you with much weaker conditions, and the healing power may or may not actually have a significant effect due to the way it scales with abilities.
Shaman’s is sort of sits alongside magi gear with having very niche uses.
Perhaps if you’re a low vitality profession that wants to be a condi bunker (i.e. guardian, thief) it might have some uses, or perhaps you can use it as a way to passively combat a condition heavy opposition. Either that, or if you’re just using a build that lacks investment in vitality, you can maybe use shaman’s to help round you out.
In general, I feel you’d be better off with carrion or apothecary gear though, or you can always just go for rabid. My experience with shaman’s has been very underwhelming.
I’ve really wanted to get something with shaman gear to work, and I still haven’t found something yet. They key to building around a stat array is to look at what it provides and work around ways to either accentuate it’s strengths or mitigate it’s shortcomings. Shaman gives mainly vitality, with minor hpow and condi. So what I’ve done, is look at traits, runes, and other complementary armor sets that either use vitality, add toughness, and/or make use of healing power and condition damage. Rangers have a7%conversion vitality into power, which could pair well with exuberance runes (which give quite a few stats based on vit. Notably another 7% to power). However, that makes more sense for sentinels as that gives both toughness and power. OTOH, engis have 7% into condi damage, which you could pair with scavenging runes (it’s not ranger, but it could work if you could find some damage reduction traits or effects to take advantage of)
Staying with ranger, you could try to combine some shamans and settlers, and dump some points into BM and WS for a beefy condi bunker. You’d be able to take advantage of all three defensive stats, and you’d have a decent amount of condi damage. I might even consider making something like that as I’m currently unhappy with how my ranger is going.
Other options for shaman gear might include thief and ele, though those would be harder to do possibly. While guardians might like the vit and hpow, they currently don’t make very good use of condition damage outside of hybrid burn/power builds.
Fishsticks
Shaman gear is the most useless in the game, because it doesn’t make sense to go for healing power and vitality. Healing power is only good combined with toughness. So for survivability you go either vitality (short fights) or healing power/toughness (long fights) but you will never combine healing power and vitality, because healing power heals a lower percentage of your life whe having higher vitality.
I cannot understand why they have such useless gear in the game and lack so many usefull cobinations like Vitality/Power/Precision, Vitality/Precision/Ferocity or Vitality/Power/Ferocity for direct damage focussed on short fights with some survival stats. The good thing about vitality is: It helps against direct and condition damage in contrast to toughness.
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