Talk:Shaman/@comment-85.144.252.218-20160927161455/@comment-218.215.13.185-20180727010222

Me and my friend have been playing through BG abd BG2, he has a Shaman as one of his characters and I must say they've has been one of the most useful characters. You cant treat the shaman as a battle healer or dps. You need to learn to situate the Shaman in a choke point and get the spirits up then utilise them as meat shields while your other characters dish out damage. As long as the other characters are used to kite enemies away from the shaman and into fighting the spirits, youll have unlimited summons coming out during a fight. The more hits the spirits take, the less damage your party is taking, which makes up for the lack of mid-battle healing. And once they start summoning elementals they actually start dealing good damage.

And spirits are life savers against things like mind flayers and umberhulks.