They are looking at the Shaman now

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Then you aren't doing as much as you can to help the raid.  If rogues can get in there and melee, so can you!  On the bosses that can't be meleed, cast spells at them!  If you're designated as a healer, you can melee and heal at the same time.  There's a hell of a lot more to do in a raid that benefits the raid than you just sitting there watching tv instead.
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I don't know what kind of raid guild you are in, but Shamans are there to HEAL, not take unnecessary damage by being in melee range or wasting mana throwing shocks around. If the raid has too many healers, you bring less healers and more DPS; you don't add gimp DPS by having healing classes start whacking things.

Any guild that wants to actually take down the bosses quickly and easily aren't going to force folks into one spec.
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I chuckled at that. Are you joking or trying to make a point about morale? Either way, I'm not talking about if people are having fun at what they are doing, I'm talking about raid effectiveness. My guild doesn't force specs - but feral druids and shadow priests sure aren't getting raid invites unless we're desparate(or doing MC). Every single shaman in our guild is at LEAST 32 in restoration (I'm currently 37, have been as high as 45). If someone wants to be a DPS class in a raid, what do they do? They roll a DPS class. The half-assed DPS fram a healing class in healing gear is detrimental to any raid (or the halfassed healing from a healing class that used all of their DKP on damage gear, for that matter.)

It's wasteful to not take advantage of all the opportunities you have available to you.  What do your holy or discipline priests do when they aren't required for healing all the time?  How about having one of your shadow priests just DPS until they are needed?  Same with the druids.  You've got a feral druid?  Let them DPS if they aren't needed for healing.  Even on learning encounters, you don't need every healer healing at every moment of the raid.  And shaman are forced to get Mana Tide?  Really?  Then why is every pickup group amazed to see a restoration shaman when I join them?  And yes, these are groups that have some folks in MC and BWL and AQ40 too.
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Like I said, if a druid or shaman gives up innervate or mana tide, that person probably gives up his spot in the raid. We raid to kill bosses, not to see all our healers run out of mana when Chromaggus is at 30%.