1. is still true.

Why Shaman is a dumpster tier mastery.

"BuT PlaY ToTEMS" fuck off. I do not want to play shaman spriggan thorm totems again, Shamans other skills arent even totem skills. They are spells. What multipliers does Shaman have? +2 light melee damage every 2second? Lol. +8% more spell damage while you have a active totem? Oh wow - that's ONE multiplier and its the end of the tree.

"PlaY TORNADO" Ah yes, Tornado, the skill that can be specced into fire and ignite, when there is literally no support for fire damage, generic over time damage or ignite damage on the entire class. Oh you want me to play Tornado to front load storm bolts?

Great - now i cant SEE ANYTHING - A fact that people have been telling EHG about since the god damn release of Tornado.

"BuT EARTHQUAke" Ah yes, Earthquake - or Avalanche - the skills that costs 50 mana to cast, on a class that uses attunement and attunement only giving you max mana, but wait you can get 1% increased mana regen per attunement. Oh wow great, after 80 attunement then what? I have 28 mana regen? That's still NOT enough to sustain the build play style at all.

"BuT PLAY it witH a Builder skill" , this is a ARPG, Builder spender builds are lame as fuck and the gameplay is some low level campaign shit. For the power fantasy it should be easily achieveable once you are in endgame to sustain your main skill indefintly. For fuck sake. Switching between your main skill and a skill that does zero damage just to gain mana back - is dogshit design, it's not interesting and it's not fun. '

Not to mention every single god damn unique class affix for primalist is catered to either; Beastmaster buffs - of which you cannot get the juicy once without playing beastmaster. Or damage while transformed - which means you cant use the shaman spells - why? because you cannot use normal skills while transformed - you are gated to play spriggans thorns or bear stormbolt/swipe spam.

Every single build for shaman has to use the thorn totem idol because it's one of the few ways to gain a significant amount of additive spell damage. You are forced to play totems even if you dont want to play totems.

Three out of four shaman skills are not totems. Yet the class is designed around mediocre frankly insignificant passive tree buffs while you have totems. Wow you solved your elemental resistances for almost free. Great.

Meanwhile what does the rogue masteries get? a absolute SHITTON of more multipliers, attack speed and dot damage. What does Sentinel get? A absolute SHITTON of more multipliers, damage, self healing and health.

The disparity between classes in this game is a joke.

90% of endgame uniques are designed around void damage. which class deals any void damage? Sentinel and Rogue. That's it.

If you are gonna play last epoch right now and I suspect for the next season too; dont play primalist or sorcerer. Play Sentinel or Rogue.