Shaman Guide

I took Pinda's guide from here[guidescroll.com] and added my experiences.
This guide is for AoE and 1v1 Shaman, but some PvP too.

Characterpoints

Con vs. Dex vs. Wis vs. Int

Con increases your max HP

Dex increases your evasion

Wis increases your max MP

Int increases you magic dmg

You get 3 Points every lvl-up and 1 Point every sealvl

Skills

Healing Hands
This skill’s casting time is about 2 seconds and the cooldown time is 1 second. It heals much HP for it’s MP consumption. This skill is usable for a Shaman, but I don’t recommend to use this skill for self-healing.

Instant Recovery
The casting time is instant, cooldown is instant, this is a very great spam skill too bad the MP consuming is way too high for a Shaman. If you want it, use it with caution, you need a high amount of Wis.

Armour of Light
This is a must have skill, the casting time is instant and the cooldown is 90 seconds. It reduces greatly the damage received when maxed it is 58% damage reduction!

Recovery
Recovery is the perfect self heal skill for a Shaman, low mp usage, good casting time, which is 2 seconds. This is a healing over time over 15 seconds and it will heal 5 times with a cooldown of 20 seconds.

Master Recovery
Casting time is 4 seconds and the cooldown is 5 seconds. This is a very good healing skill, it takes some time to cast though but the MP usage is very low.

Light Transition
A weak, but well spamable attack skill. The casting time is 1 second and the cooldown is 1.5s, single target skill.

Chains of Light
Chains of Light is a stun skill the target won’t be able to attack nor move for a small period of time. At maxed level the target will be stunned for 7 seconds. The casting time is instant and the cooldown is 25 seconds. You could use it in PvP or for support in boss fights.

Spiritual Power
A skill to increase the MP recovery by a fixed amount, this buff will only be in effect when you are not being attacked. That’s why I think it’s better to spend your skill points on another skill.

Soul Revival
This is a resurrection skill it will revive a dead target, this will not work on NPCs. The casting time is 2.5 seconds and the cooldown is 60 seconds. I recommend to keep this skill at level 1, for saving skill points.

Blessing of Nature
This is a buff which will increase your physical defence, it’s a good skill for a supportive Shaman. Casting time is 2 seconds and the cooldown is 4 seconds. The duration is 10 min.

Flow of Darkness
Casting time is 1 second and the cooldown is 10 sec, the cooldown will decrease on higher levels, thus making it a spamable skill on higher level. This skill is like LT, but this one come with a DoT as well it deals moderate DoT over 15 seconds every 3 seconds. This is the best single target skill of the Shaman.

Curse of Leaf
This is an awesome debuff, I think this is my personal favourite. It’s casting is 1.5 seconds but it’ll be instant on higher levels and the cooldown is 1 sec. It decreases the defensive power of the target, both magical and physical. The duration is 30 seconds. Using with skill in a start of a skill combo is recommended, I use it myself as an ‘’opening’’.

Thorn Shield
The cooldown of this skill is 1 second, but the casting time goes from 2.5 seconds to instant on higher levels, and the duration will raise by the way. This skill can only be casted on yourself. I recommend to use this skill only with a Con-build, because it isn’t too effective on Shamans with lower HP. If it’s maxed it’ll reflect 38% of the damage received.

Thorn Trunk
Thorn Trunk has a 0.8 seconds casting time and a 15 seconds cooldown. This skill is very useful against melee bosses/mobs or against the Mercenary. Since it will prevent them from using their offensive skills on you, because they need to be in sword range. Since this skill prevents players from moving it’s also handy to cast your AoE after this on other players in PvP.

Cure
This skill cures your target’s poison. You could alternatively use Antidotes, but those have a high CD ~30 sec.

Mist of Darkness
MoD is the Shaman’s strongest AoE and overall damage skill, the effect-circle isn’t that big compared to other AoEs. It deals moderate direct damage with a major DoT. The casting is 3 seconds and the cooldown is 25 seconds, and the duration is 15 seconds. This should be your main AoE if you’ll be an AoE-er.

Door of Darkness
This a single target skill, it’s casting time is 2.5 seconds and the cooldown is 30 seconds. It also comes with a 4 second stun. As the stun duration doesn't raise with higher lvl, I recommend keeping it on 1.

Darkness Wave
The casting time of this skill is 2.5 seconds and the cooldown is 15 seconds. This is an AoE type skill. It’s effect range is as big as MoD and it only deals moderate direct damage. This skill is handy to finish off your enemies which survived MoD, keeping this skill on level 1 is recommended.

Deceitful Penalty
This is an AoE debuff, the casting time is 2 seconds and the cooldown is 13 seconds. On level 3 the duration will raise to 15 seconds, I recommend to keep this skill on level 3. But if you like the attack power debuff so much then you should max it, since the attack speed debuff is also been ‘’maxed’’ on level 3. This is a nice debuff to support someone in a big AoE, usually you won’t agro by using this skill, so it should be save.

Depravity of Soul
This a passive skill which raises your magic damage. It’s useful if you are using mainly your Cariad and direct damage skills. It won’t raise DoTs, since DoT are fixed, they can’t never ever be affected by anything.

Revenant’s Curse
This is a DoT skill, it deals both damage to HP and MP, it also the only skill in the game which can deal damage one’s MP. The casting time is 2 seconds and the cooldown is 12 seconds. And the duration is 15 seconds. I recommend you to use this skill only for PvP purposes.

Sudden Darkness
This is an AoE skill, it’s casting time is 2 seconds and the cooldown is 20 seconds. It only deals heavy direct damage, but it’s accuracy is low, it misses quite often which makes the skill unreliable. Which makes a skill also useless in my eyes. But the effect circle is a bit bigger than the DW’s and MoD’s one.

Touch of Death
This is a single target skill making every hit be doubled on the target for a small period of time and a limited amount of hits. This is one of the most important skills of the Shaman.

Balance Up
This is a self buff, it will increase your resistance against critical hits and the stuns from a critical hit. The duration is 10 minutes and the cooldown is 1 second. With a Dex-build you won’t be really needing it.

Builds

1 v 1
Stats: Full INT
The pure INT build is 100% damage, this build is the ultimate 1vs1 grinding build. Much damage, Armour of Light, Blessing of Nature and Recovery keep you alive.



AoE
Stats: Full DEX or 150-200 DEX then CON or WIS
With pure dex your avoidance rate is so high even high levels have trouble laying a hit on you.
Before level 21 is build is a real pain, because on level 21 you will get your first AoE (Mist of Darkness).

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