Shaman Conjuration Skill

[Vorrio]

I apologize if this is old news and has already gone live, but last night when I was adventuring with my shaman, I noticed that my hoarfrost (quickcast DoT) line was getting resisted around 75% of the time. I couldn't figure out why until I noticed that I was gaining conjuration skill every so often.

Until this latest patch (I think), the icon for hoarfrost had always said it was a conjuration skill, but casting it skilled up evocation instead, and it seemed to be linked to evocation. Apparently, that bug has been fixed.

The problem is that, other than the new hoarfrost, there was only one shaman spell I was aware of that gave conjuration skill - a level 8 (?) summon rez orb spell that takes five seconds to cast. Because it takes forever to cast and doesn't have to be used that much, I (like most shamen, I assume) have let my conjuration skill lag far behind the others. When I was in my low teens, I once tried to bring it up by casting the orb spell over and over, but after a half hour of that boredom, the skill hadn't even reached 70 so I gave up.

Anyway, maybe I'm more lazy than other shamen, and I could easily be missing something, but if it goes live like this high level shamen are going to have to spend hours casting the summon spell or hoarfrost just to bring the conjuration line up to where hoarfrost doesn't get resisted half the time (and it's an expensive spell energy-wise).

I'm not sure there's anything that can be done, but I don't remember seeing the fix in the patch notes, so people should at least be warned. It would be nice, however, if you could switch one of our insta-buff spells to conjuration too (at least for a couple weeks), so if we have to grind the skill up, we could at least do it while traveling.

[Truly]

I too was going to post on this subject.

I just got this spell yesterday when I turned 18. (hoarfrost2) At that time my conjuration skill was about 5. I am now about 60% into level 19 and my conjuration skill is almost up to 100, I have cast it on every mob I have fought since then.

I am not sure that it can be fixed easily but it should get mentioned in the patch so folks are at least aware of it. I know it has happened in the past (rogue kick skill anyone?) but it may be one of those things we just have to gut out.

One thing I did was to kill lower mobs for faction and skinning while working on it. This way when it failed it wasn't such a big deal, I could just beat the mob to death.

Truly

[Asquinol]

This has been fixed internal already and should hit the server soon.

thanks for the info though!

[Truly]

Thanks for the reply.

Truly

[Oberon]

I've got a 41 Shaman on Live, and I level faster than my spellcasting skills rise. I don't even bother casting Spirit Strike any more because it never lands. I know melee skills rise quickly now but that change doesn't seem to have affected my Shamanic offensive spellcasting skills, which almost never go up.

[MisterT]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I've got a 41 Shaman on Live, and I level faster than my spellcasting skills rise. I don't even bother casting Spirit Strike any more because it never lands. I know melee skills rise quickly now but that change doesn't seem to have affected my Shamanic offensive spellcasting skills, which almost never go up.

I've got a 26 healer speced Shaman on Live and because in a group i'm the healer most of the time, this causes me to don't use "Spirit Strike" very much.
I'm unable to solo for a long time because it take's me to long to get a creature killed. Melee damage sucks and "Spirit Strike" never lands so i can't/won't use it.
Maybe offensive spellcasting skill could be connected to those melee strikes that uses energy.

[JackStarr]

This is an issue that many classes have seen a number of times. Most often its not too much trouble, but when you consider that many are up there in levels, this becomes more of an issue.

Seems like they could simply give us the points to make our skills even with our level so that we don't have to spend an undue amount of time to train ourselves to where we should have been to begin with.

I like fixes, but this is not beta and I am paying to have fun here.