They are looking at the Shaman now

[Kevin]

I have to agree and I've been in groups in Strat, Scholo, DM North and East, LBRS where the only person with healing spells besides the hunter and warlock was a shaman. True solo healing of the 5 mans. The rest of the party were 57-60 in greens and blues. In some cases it was the first time all 5 toons in the party had set foot in the instance sometimes it was the first time that a person or two had ever been in the instance.

Shaman can heal just fine. Of course so can paladins and that is who the shaman's healing needs to match. I think 1.9 did actually up the healing power of paladin spec'd for healing by 5-10% over 1.8 based on my own paladin. So I would expect shaman to get a very minor increase. And yes, improving stoneskin totem improves a shamans healing ability I do consider things like that. :) So since I feel that paladins did get a little better at healing that shaman should two even though both classes could solo heal all the 5 man content.

Fix the bouncing issues that chain heal has (I've seen it not jump to an injured target that should have been in range many many times, hell I rarely see it jump at all) and you've up the healing power of a shaman too. :) And/or shorten the cast time on it or something to make it more than just something that is there as an amusement factor and you help the healing power of a shaman a lot.

Fix the talents that totems get as mentioned. Yeah there are tweaks the shaman trees need. Paladins need druid and priest like changes. Shaman need paladin like changes. :) Well in the magnitude of what the changes do. All 3 shaman builds already change playstyle a lot and make a more noticable difference in damage that can be dealt or absorbed or healing that can be done. So the shaman has the diversity the paladin lacked, but yeah the shaman needs some fixin. I do hope that it isn't what they did to the paladins.