WotLK talent/ability speculation

[Mordekhuul]

I know this is kind of a hijack, mostly because I'm fairly certain you're not talking about 25-person healing, but it really is god's gift to shamans. Our guild only has one and a half resto shamans, and pushing fights like Teron, Mother, and especially Bloodboil with only one in the raid, even with two holy priests, is noticeably more difficult than two. I can only imagine SWP with one/two shammies as being far and away more difficult than most guilds which bring anywhere from three to six (!!). WTB Resto shammies:)

A lot of folks are really wondering what the WotLK changes for paladins and resto shaman will be, as I follow two pertinent threads over on the EJ forums.

You have Gurgthock and some other shaman on one hand, saying that the prevelance of fights where the raid takes consistent damage and players can group up really helps resto shaman shine in TBC, but on fights where the raid takes little damage or has to spread out significantly, they are the worst choice for a healer outside of the usefulness of rotating bloodlusts.

You have healadins on the other hand indicating that outside of MT healing, which priests can also do quite well, they don't bring much to the table except their rather significant buffs, which diminish beyond a third paladin (of any stripe - one healadin, one ret, and one prot satisfies it).

WotLK could change any of that, for sure.