Blizzard to Paladins:

[Lissa]

Heh.... have you tried using Tremor?  It's very tricky, and can't be relied upon.  It works in pulses, and you have to be in range of the totem when a pulse goes off.  Often you run out of the range while you are feared.  You have to plant it to try and cover 5 people, which means that someone is barely covered, and has a very high chance of not being in range.  Even if it works, you are feared for a second, interrupting casting.  Also, mobs that wipe/reduce aggro (like Onyxia, I believe) when they fear get that wipe in.  Several things that seem like fear, aren't they are magic.  Two that come to mind are the zombies at the second farm in WPL and the corehounds.

As other have pointed out, Tremor totem has far more uses that just to dispell fear. It dispells EVERYTHING. To use the Female Undead Silly, "Curse, no problem. Polymorph, LIKE A SPRING BREEZE!".

Simply put, the Shaman has too many tricks. It has no true weakness because anything that is potentially a weakness is covered somewhere else (talking a lot of damage, switch to one hander and shield and take only about 10% more damage than a Warrior in plate with the same shield while you're wearing mail, not enough mana, get some of the mail that tends to have Int, Spirit, and Sta, seems to be most the high end blue mail in the game, need +healing, there's plenty of mail with that too).

Oh, and the other GINORMUS advantage pallies have is that 3-4 of them can cover an entire raid with every concievably useful blessing.  Shaman need atleast 8 to cover an entire raid, and even then many people will be missing important totems.  Of course this could cut both ways, with the 5th and 6th pallys being told to shield hearth cause the group would rather have extra DPS or priests, but thems the breaks.  At least the 4 who are there will have an excellent shot at loot.
I just did, and I agree HPS sucks.&nbsp; <Theory craft>However, the HPM looks fantastic, especially with Blessing of Light, the talent, and a little heal gear.&nbsp; How much mana does an end game pally have?&nbsp; It seems like you could spam that for ever, for a reasonable and very steady stream of heals</Theory craft>&nbsp; Shaman may be able to heal more quickly, but run dry very fast.&nbsp; I usually spend at least half a boss fight just rubbing my hands infront of my mana totem.
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So wrong. Both you and Mongo need to sit down and make a Paladin and play it. You'll find out just how wrong you are concerning the Paladin. The Paladin is not some invulnerable terror, they're quite defeatable, probably more easily defeated that the Shaman if you know what you're doing. A Pally that knows what they're doing is a very difficult oppenent to beat in PvP, but a Shaman that knows what they're doing is nigh impossible to beat.