They are looking at the Shaman now

[Rinnhart]

Priests have renew, Priests have Prayer of healing. In a raid situation, most of the time, i can sit there with four fingers on my keyboard, mashing lesser healing wave with the main tank targeted (and mana conserve on) and recasting totems when i hear the expiration notification sound with my other three fingers. I'm usually watching tv.

Welcome to raiding. It sucks for everyone but the main tank.

Yes, and what raid guild trying to learn AQ is going to take shadow priests in place of holy priests? or feral druids? or non Restoration Shaman? Any priest wanting to maximize raid effectiveness is pretty much forced into some variation of 26/25, much like Druids are forced to Innervate and Shaman are forced to Mana Tide.
What do Paladins get pressured to spec to, besides Blessing of Kings? (not a rhetorical question, actually wanting to know)

Hahaha, we're not "pressured" in to any specs because our specs all blow. We'd rather have good tools to spec for and good tools to have to pick and choose between than the "it's all pretty much the same" that we have.

But as it stands right now the Shaman laughable. Raiding as horde should not be HARDER than raiding as alliance. It should just be different.

I would kill a man for a shaman in the 20 mans, and convert to Scientology if it would get me a shaman for razorgore.

You don't want salvation. It makes people stupid.

And at least you guys have something fun to do on vael when you get BA. Woo! Hammer! Guess I better heal some more.

That's funny, because neither Druids nor Shamans nor Paladins are hybrids at the raid level.

Beautifully put.

Unfortunetly we neither have the usefulness (Innervate, Blessings, Cleanse, Auras etc) nor the end-game itemization (Lawbringer, Stormrage) to support what we are doing endgame. Don't even let me get started about the stupid,stupid, overlapping, ineffective intent they had when designing Earthfury and Ten Storms.
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And yet, you're still the best pvp healer in the game and definately one of the most fomidable classes in any pvp role. Shamans have stupid amounts of utility and while some portions of their talent trees are lacking, you also get some of the best talents in the game, cherry picked from others or not. Your talent choices actually impact your role and playstyle.

I'd go so far as to say alot of the complaining about how terrible the raid game is by shamans is less class specific and more you have so little to complain about that a general player woe has become cornerstone. Raiding isn't fun. No one raids to raid, they raid because they like the people they raid with or because they want something.