Shaman Totems vs Paladin Blessings

[Lissa]

Stop right there. Averice apparently has an abnormal shortage of pallys. You can't balance the game around one guild that has an odd balance. It would be like saying "We only have 2 warlocks, so we can't get Curse of Shadows up. Warlocks need a 10% buff to damage to be competitive."

Fact of the matter is this. The healing spells that the Shaman and Paladin have don't compare properly. HL and HW are close in comparablity, but FoL and LHW are apples and oranges (LHW = Flash Heal for a better comparison). It take BoL to make a Paladin a more efficient healer than a Shaman. And BoL is not always going to be there.

Also, what you fail to realize, is that a lot of Paladin players out there get disgusted with their characters at 60 because all the things they could do prior to 60 they lose, they can't tank end game bosses effectively unlike being able to tank instance bosses, they lose some of their DPS due to debuff restrictions of large group dynamics. Atleast a Shaman has the ability to chose between healing and being mage like while the Paladin's choice becomes Healer/buffbot in the end.

Oh well, you'll get a chance to see some of the issues Paladins have come the expansion.

You guys apparently don't have enough palladins if you don't have a holy one. In any event, since your pallys are so gimped by lack of blessing of light, it wouldn't be a big loss to have one of them go up and whack away to keep it up. I'm not sure what the matter with your debuff control is.

If you read what I said as a follow up, it's that the buff gets knocked off. There is very little room for debuffs on a mob when you have the following going up: Curse of Shadow, Curse of Elements, Curse of Recklessness, Sunder, Thunderfury procs (2 debuffs). There's 8 debuffs that will be up constantly. Some of the other 8 slots take, VE, MF, Rend, Shadow Weaving, Faerie Fire, and random debuffs from procs and the like. See the problem? Suddenly, JoW has little to no space up there and will typically get kicked off by something. Even if there were more control over those last 8 spots, what are you going to tell can't be on the mob vs. what can?