warlogy wrote:I've been playing a summon sm and its pretty good so far. I like how it doesn't depend on hitting the monster, don't have to worry about getting long strings of misses, or resists. It is very consistent.

1. Must get MCL1 to function. The devs recently "fixed" power regen. Now it takes 4ish minutes to regen your power from 0-100%. This is completely absurd and is not close to the mechanics in place for 1.65. But thats fine. Im not here to call people stupid. Ill let everyone else do that for me.

2. Focus shield randomly drains double power for no reason. If you notice your power draining VERY FAST, simply break focus, and run away a little, root the mobs, passive your pet, and reset. Anything else will cost you tons of time regening your mana to keep your XP flowing.


3. Finding a good pac/mend healer to duo with is probably the fastest XP in mid. I was taking 4 red/grape crabs with minimal downtime at 26. create a system, and stick to it, and know when you need to run and reset.

4. Always keep in mind that your pet heal is affected by your spell focus. If you get a higher heal spell, and its above your staff focus bonus, do not use the new one. Use the old one. BTW - if you pulled 3 yellows, you can heal when the pet is at 20% 2 times, and reapply focus shield. Then when pet reaches 15%, cast 3 heals. As long as your pet is targetting the 3rd mob pulled, you will never pull aggro, and you will kill them at around 40% power.

5. Never EVER EVER use your single target nukes, unless it is RVR. Your variance is absurd. I was hitting a yellow between 40 and 140 at level 28. Do not ever cast this on mobs. you are better off casting a QC root and passiving your pet, and reapplying the 60 second damage shield, and kiting to about 1200 range, and cast focus shield on the pet, and send to rooted mob. The mob will hit the pet after it breaks the root, and will hit it 2 times (usually) and with FS up, it will almost always aggro the pet fully. Refer to Step 4 for heals.

6. Stat debuffs currently generate substantially increased aggro on mobs. Dont use this to pull mobs. You wont be able to get them off unless you perfectly pull off step 5 (2nd part)


I dont think all this info is perfect....

But its based on current situations I am dealing with right now, soloing on my summoning SM. I cant wait till 40, so I can go Suppression!

No thoughts about cave shaman?

Perma sprint ---> AE dot ---> nothing better, nothing faster. No tailoring availabe, thats crap.....

U get last ae dot with 47 in cave spec, so u can start lvling/ PL, farming with 47 . Of course IF U KNOW THE RIGHT SPOTS....

greets