Shaman

As a Shaman playing Everquest, your main purpose is to sustain your group and/or raid by providing slows, cures, heals and buffs that can be used on a defensive or aggressive stance.

Your spell setup should always be formed by 3 sets of spells:

1- Healing/curing

2- Buffing

3- DPS

Explaining the 3 sets:

1 - Healing curing

As most of you know, shamans are priests and as priests they have increased healing capacities so they benefit from quick healing spells, group healing spells, heal over times and curing spells.

Speaking as a shaman, would be good to have at least this setup on your 4 first spell slots:

- Heal

- Fast heal

- Group heal

- Heal-Over-Time

2 - Buffing

Buffing is a very important part of shamans, while playing a supporting class they need to be fast, efficient and very good at what they do, if they fail, the whole raid or group can fail so you need to get everyone's defensives up and rolling as much as the offensives.

As buffing class you can buff giving your mates extra stats like: stamina, strength, dexterity, endurance, hit points, attack rating and attack speed.

3 - DPS

As dps you can cast Damage over time and direct damage casts that are based on magic, desease and poison.

In-Game Description[]

Shamans serve as priests to the tribal races of Norrath, able to draw upon the power of the spirits and focus it for their own purposes. Shamans are primarily a magic-using class, able to wear chain armor and wield blunt weapons and spears.

Shamanic magic has two main focuses-- enhancing the mind and body of the shaman's allies, and weakening or damaging their enemies. A shaman's enhancement spells are always in demand, massively improving the strength, stamina, health, and other physical aspects of the shaman's group. Shamans also are able to heal their allies and have excellent health regeneration spells.

The weakening and damaging spells in the shaman's arsenal are tremendously effective in battle. The shaman attacks his enemies with diseases and poisons that cause massive damage over time, while using cold and ice magic to inflict damage directly. A brutal line of crippling spells can slow a monster's attacks, hamper their resistance to spells, and lower their physical prowess.

Shamans are a well-rounded class with strong abilities in both group and solo situations. An experienced shaman can turn the tide of any battle, bolstering their allies while weakening their enemies significantly. The shaman is an excellent class who enjoy working in groups.

Pets[]

Shaman pets are not able to tank, and they are very dependent on equipment.

Level 30[]

At level thirty, pets cannot (this does not get better as they progress) nor do they have a good DPS (damage per second).

Abilities[]

Shaman pets are known for their ability to slow down mobs, and this makes up for their inability to fight directly.

Combat Skills[]

LEVEL	TRAINED	SKILL	PRE-50 CAP	POST-50 CAP
1	No	1 Hand Blunt	200	200
1	No	2 Hand Blunt	200	200
1	No	Bind Wound	200	200
1	No	Defense	200	200
1	No	Hand to Hand	75	75
1	No	Offense	200	200
1	No	Piercing	200	200
15	Yes	Dodge	75	80

Magic Skills[]

LEVEL	TRAINED	SKILL	PRE-50 CAP	POST-50 CAP
1	No	Abjuration	235	235
1	No	Alteration	235	235
1	No	Conjuration	235	235
1	No	Divination	235	235
1	No	Evocation	235	235
4	No	Channeling	200	220
8	Yes	Meditate	235	252
30	Yes	Specialization	235	235

Tradeskills[]

LEVEL	TRAINED	SKILL	PRE-50 CAP	POST-50 CAP
1	No	Baking	250	300
1	No	Brewing	250	300
1	Yes	Fletching	250	300
1	No	Jewel Crafting	250	300
1	No	Pottery	250	300
1	No	Smithing	250	300
1	No	Tailoring	250	300
1	No	Tinkering Gnome Only	250	300
25	Yes	Alchemy	300	300

Language Skills[]

LEVEL	TRAINED	SKILL	PRE-50 CAP	POST-50 CAP
1	Yes	Barbarian	100	100
1	Yes	Combine	100	100
1	No	Common Tongue	100	100
1	Yes	Dark Speech	100	100
1	Yes	Dark Tongue	100	100
1	Yes	Dwarven	100	100
1	Yes	Elder Dragon	100	100
1	Yes	Elder Erudian	100	100
1	Yes	Elder Tier'Dal	100	100
1	Yes	Elven	100	100
1	Yes	Erudian	100	100
1	Yes	Faerie	100	100
1	Yes	Froglok	100	100
1	Yes	Giant	100	100
1	Yes	Gnoll	100	100
1	Yes	Gnomish	100	100
1	Yes	Goblin	100	100
1	Yes	Halfling	100	100
1	Yes	High Elf	100	100
1	Yes	Kobold	100	100
1	Yes	Lizardman	100	100
1	Yes	Ogre	100	100
1	Yes	Orcish	100	100
1	Yes	Thieves Cant	100	100
1	Yes	Tier'Dal	100	100
1	Yes	Troll	100	100

Other Skills[]

LEVEL	TRAINED	SKILL	PRE-50 CAP	POST-50 CAP
1	No	Alcohol Tolerance	200	200
1	No	Beg	200	200
1	No	Fishing	200	200
1	No	Forage Iksar	50	50
1	No	Sense Heading	200	200
1	No	Swimming	200	200