Bear Shaman: Leveling Build and Feat Review (version 3)

The Bear Shaman is a great healer/melee hybrid class. It is easily the most well rounded class in Age of Conan, with strong offensive and defensive abilities as well as a utility bag of tricks. It is a strong PvP class, especially at endgame. It also has much to offer in groups, [...]

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I miss feeling powerful and heroic

I absolutely hated the fact that you never felt truly powerful in World of Warcraft . Most of the monster encounters were one on one. If another monster happened to join in the fight, it was a problem for many classes. Not impossible, but difficult enough that you don’t feel like the [...]

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Bear Shaman: Revised leveling build and feat advice

UPDATE Sept. 27.  Updated this leveling guide.  Here is the latest version.
Blood Fever vs Untamed Regeneration
With the significant reduction in Untamed Regeneration’s regeneration and increase in vulnerabilities, it becomes a good situational tool instead of a skill you run all the time. Blood Fever’s 20% damage increase becomes a more attractive option.
Untamed Regeneration (UR) [...]

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Overpowered? Tempest of Set and Priest of Mitra

Are these two classes really overpowered? It appears that a lot of people in the official forums seem to think so. Both class forums and even the general forum is getting a flood of ‘nurf l33t preists!!’ posts (I don’t know l33t speak at all, but you get my point). I call these [...]

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My Bear Shaman is reborn! Leveling builds to 50 and lots of feat advice.

UPDATE 6/14/08 Finished the revised leveling build guide.
UPDATE 6/12/08 – Today’s patch apparently reduced the regeneration rate from Untamed Regeneration by ~40% and increased the vulnerability from 10% to 15%. It’s still a good skill, but the increased vulnerabilities means that Bears should always be ready to cancel this aspect. For leveling, the [...]

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My Bear Shaman is born!

I finally succumbed to my constant need to roll alts. I still love my Priest of Mitra, so she’s still my main. I felt that I wasn’t giving myself a chance to really play AoC because I’m missing out on the brand new melee combat system. Bear Shaman = melee + healer. [...]

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