Shaman Totems vs Paladin Blessings

[Yurup]

A couple of quick notes before bed. I work with a 'set' roster of 4 pallies. On any given raid night, one or two may not be there. If I can get 3-4 pallies on my raid, I consider myself lucky from a class balance perspective. The situation has eased some of late, as we've had some more folks come up the ranks, but there were raids I've gone on without a pally around at all. The Avarice ARP site lists 15 'active' pallies, in that they've raided at least once in the last three months. Of those, I look over the list and find that there are TWO that are regulars, that's it.

I know those two enjoy their role. I know of a new main, and a hunter with a pally alt who seem to enjoy the role of a pally.

4 of 15 actually ENJOY and want to play their pally. The rest tend to bring another alt, or just not raid if they can't not bring their pally.

As a raid leader, and not a RL of an "uberguild", I don't force people to raid on toons they don't want to.

Most often, my raids have 2 pallies, and those two are working their butts off doing the best they can, keeping 40 people buffed to the nines, and spot healing in between.

Not really a "shortage" I suppose, but certainly not an excess, either.

Thats pretty weird.. On the europe server, earthen ring. We have about 20 paladins signing up for MC. Paladins are the one thing we never have a short suply off.