Survivebility Storm shaman??

[BeNco]

What is the trick? Mage has ward, rouge hast dodge and life per hit, what has the shaman? All the skills, give me nothing. I die so many times.

[Kmany]

I made a shaman last monday that is level 98 now..
I am at 265 corruption i think with that one.. are you planning to go further?

I started on a beastmaster 2 days ago that i am playing now and i just hit empowered monos, but if you like i can log on the other build and look at the stats.

[Requimatic]

All classes have access to Ward, Dodge, Leech, LpH (Life per Hit), etc.

Just have to gear for it. If Shaman has no passives that particularly facilitate any of those.. gear is your answer. (Just don't forget to beef up your resists and actual armor stat.)

[Niuq]

Aspect of the Boar in the beast master tree helps a bit.
Endurance is the route i went with the shaman.
57% endurance and 1100 threshold is what my shammy is currently at.
Had to sacrifice a fair bit of dps stats to get there but in the end it felt so much better.

[SimplyGnome]

Originally posted by Niuq:

Aspect of the Boar in the beast master tree helps a bit.
Endurance is the route i went with the shaman.
57% endurance and 1100 threshold is what my shammy is currently at.
Had to sacrifice a fair bit of dps stats to get there but in the end it felt so much better.

Ehat this guy said - Endurance, Endurance threshold, and HP - and talents from the Beastmaster.

[ARandomPOS4(?)]

Realize that you're never going to even get to 1/4 the corruption level ward builds are at right now and that you will always have a mediocre class and then you'll be fine.

[Silvy]

Originally posted by BeNco:

What is the trick? Mage has ward, rouge hast dodge and life per hit, what has the shaman? All the skills, give me nothing. I die so many times.

Primalist as a whole is together with Sentinel (Forge Guard ) the worst / most boring class you can play.

I would argue that Primalist is even worse off considering that there is barely any defense to it (unlike paladin who can get 30k-100k ward from spamming 1 button).

Its a worse beastmaster archetype than Falconer , with way less damage and equally bad surviveability (pets + player). Earthquake builds are awful as the mana cost is exorbitantly high and also in melee range.

I have not tried Druid or Shaman yet but looking at statistics it is quite obvious that they are not good either (nor fun when looking at their gameplay).

*Disclaimer: When im saying "not good" I mean underwhelming in comparison to other classes.

[Quillithe]

Tornado Storm bolt shaman can hit enemies something like two screens away.

Can't die if enemies never get on screen with you

[™Frostacus®]

Shaman has multiple passive sources of % DR stacking that overall can get you anywhere from 59% DR to 74% DR that you can go for which helps alot.

Beserker (20% DR) while low life, Conflux (8% DR) vs shocked targets, Ursine Strength (16% DR) from nearby enemies, Boar Aspect (15% DR,) which can be boosted to 30% DR with more points spent into it. and even more with increased effect boar aspect affixes if you really wanted to stack it further.

[Psojed]

Originally posted by BeNco:

What is the trick? Mage has ward, rouge hast dodge and life per hit, what has the shaman? All the skills, give me nothing. I die so many times.

Passives:
1) Boar Heart in Beastmaster
2) Lamprey Teeth in Beastmaster
3) Armor passives in Druid and Shaman
4) Conflux in Shaman

In general:
- 1000 health minimum for monoliths. Ideally reach 2k-3k HP.
- get 2000 Armor. Affixes on gear, Blessings, Strength also gives Armor.
- Resistances close to 75%

Then you either need health regen, 60 hp/sec should be enough to start with. Or you need damage leech, Lamprey Teeth for melee, Spell Leech Blessing and Avarice/Prism Wraps uniques for spell build.

You can even run Ward too, you need high health, Exsanguinous, and find/craft experimental gloves with "Experimental Ward per Missing Health" affix.

You can do Endurance, as others suggested.

You can do Block too, grab a good shield and craft + Block Chance, Damage Reduction on Block and Block Effectiveness on it.

[Kmany]

On a storm shaman build.. if its anything similar to mine.. I would just stack endurance and endurance treshold.. and some armor where possible.. and save the skill points for offense and life.

[Kmany]

And if you have a bleeding heart with a couple of LP.. craft that into something cool..
Or use the boar head helmet that has health leech on the implicit.. or some other health leech item.. and you are good to go..