#Shaman task

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trail sierra
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Hi, i got a shaman task and i got no blowpipe, this is slow af with a rcb and it kills my pray pots for low kills/hr.. ^^

what should i do? is there any canon spot, or should i kill the smaller ones with canon idk :c

sly mango
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Msb + rune arrows

trail sierra
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faster?

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tyty

sly mango
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Msb is always better than rcb vs lower defence

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I also did 2k shamans with msb pre bowfa

trail sierra
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oh alrighty, thanks man 🙂

dark fiber
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Also imbue the msb if you can

proven mortar
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Shams are pretty afk so consider pray flicking to save ppots if u can be bothered

bronze sleet
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Calling shamans afk might be a reach yeah? Unless there’s some method idk about. I can barely look away at another tab on my computer without all 3 of the spawns blowing up in my face

proven mortar
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Besides spawns there are no mechanics so meh

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Also if u miss spawns its not that much dmg so i just eat a food if i miss it

past heath
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Yeah but they aren't afk lol. As others have said, MSB Rune arrows is way better, and if you can get kourend hard diary done it's a massive help. Requirements aren't very high

proven mortar
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ok i guess i gotta explain it in full lol
u flick when the monster isnt doing anything, when spawns happen u leave the prayer on
some flicking is better than no flicking after all and u have tons of time to react to the purple shits when they spawn anyways

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its not mandatory but its something i would personally do to save prayer

thin python
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I did this and it's about 16 kills/ppot on task with eagle eye

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tho these days with thralls and DC and b2p it may be hard to do all that while also 1t flicking

summer sparrow
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just chug pots tbh

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ppots aren't exactly hard to come by

proven mortar
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i hear u, but the complaint was that they were running out of ppots

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i def wish i had chugged more pots early

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instead of being a fool and never potting on slayer tasks, always flicking or teleling back and forth from altar to save pray pots

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it just wasnt worth it

summer sparrow
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yep if you're low on pots you can just go get more

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but flicking does work, i just think its not worth the effort for slayer

proven mortar
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i mean

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if ur out of pots and dont have ranarrs/seeds wouldnt it take a while to get a decent amount back?

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unless ur saying to master farmers

summer sparrow
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hit up sep or somethin

proven mortar
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didnt realize that gave ranarrs tbh

summer sparrow
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lots of good content to do that isn't slayer

proven mortar
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thats fair then

thin python
digital sage
thin python
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Using pipe on shamans is kinda meh tho
Drains rune darts and scales for 20% benefit that you immediately lose by having to source darts and gather scales

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In a place like inferno where DPS is critical I can accept taking the time loss to gather the supplies to make the waves easier
But that's not the case with shamans

proven mortar
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Yeh i really would not use bp on long shitty grinds like shams or hydra even if the dps is good...the resource usage will really hurt you longterm. I blowpiped shamans and hydra cuz it was like the only "meta" option at the time but man having to collect all those scales really sucked.

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These days the dps gap is a lot narrower so imo it doesnt justify the upkeep

digital sage
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I'm just saying as a spec weapon when you need the healing

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A max of 24 shots per hour

thin python
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Well more with LB + death charge but yes

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That said I don't think ppl have pipes at 70 Slayer usually

mystic karma
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still don't really understand the argument to not use bp there, I mean whether you pipe something 10,000 times or once, you're always dealing with a constant rate of supply drain. like maybe if ur saying to save every single scale and dart for when you get masori so you maximize the value of it? and if you really want to conserve, bowfa is an option, but not really at shamans due to the lack of crystal armor, unless you're willing to accept a substantial dps loss. even for something like inferno, dps is not critical arguably at any point prior to zuk, and certainly not before wave 50 or so, and you're bringing bowfa in anyway there

shamans makes sense to me as a place to maximize dps precisely because it takes so long to see a warhammer. i think melee is objectively better if you're willing to do the amount of input required but, I really wouldn't use msb or bowfa over BP if you do happen to have it

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and if the argument is that darts can't really be considered 0 time even with passive rune or afk amethyst, then I'm not sure it's ever worth using? except for masori-shadow chambers

shy breach
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well you will use blowpipe laot on toa

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which is way more usefull

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therei s no dps check

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in shamans

mystic karma
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maybe I'm wrong and people can disagree but, I would just bp the shamans, it's quite good with the acc bonus of the armor

mystic karma
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so unless you're not bringing bowfa, in which case you either have a tbow or shadow and 2-3 masori pieces, which I figure is a bit unlikely for most people to be in that situation and continuing to do a ton of toa, the main things you're doing with bp aren't really maximizing the value of it

shy breach
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true yhea, blowpipe same damage as bofa at 450invo at shadow

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yhea wtf, blowpipe is so bad jezz

summer sparrow
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you can do that if you want, its good if you care about things like zulrah pet

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but it doesn't exactly shorten the duration of your shaman grind to use bp if you include zulrah time

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also managing darts for that long is pretty hard

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and you're using darts at a very high rate

sonic quarry