This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Gurnsey]

How does windfury stop rogue crippling poison?  Is that a bug? Or are you talking about helping mitigate enemy crippling poison? Edit: Foolish me. Must not have gotten enough sleep.  The whole replace a temporary weapon buff deal  So use something besides Windfury all the time or have the rogue place crippling on the off-hand.  It still gets applied plenty easily on the off-hand too.  Or at least it does for Eth.

Not having direct experience with this, but I think Rogues would be happy with Windfury on the main and the poison of choice on the off-hand. I agree that it is more useful to Warriors, though, as it increases rage generation.

Not all shocks are aggro heavy.  Just earth shock.

Well, Earth Shock is extra aggro-heavy. Frost Shock is front-loaded instant damage - either used right at the beginning of a fight pretty much insures that our warrior won't be able to pull aggro from me. Flame Shock is half instant, half DoT and works pretty well early in a fight (though I am also the main healer in our group so I don't use it too often). I tend to use rank 1 Earth Shock to silence, highest-rank Frost Shock to slow and do damage to single runners (Earthbind is better for multiple mobs I think), and Flame Shock for damage when interruption or slowing is not needed.

You also forgot about stoneclaw for protecting squishies, chain lightning (for use away from CC mobs).  There are also magma totems rather than fire nova.  We also have to watch if the mobs (either adds or also at the start of a fight) have a tendency to sleep people or silence or whatever other debuff is used frequently in a fight - poison cleansing totem, disease cleansing totem, tremor totem, and grounding totem.  This incoming mob likes to blast blizzard?  Frost resist totem.  These fire elementals have a heavy AoE fire damage aura that pulses?  Fire resistance.  Did these critters just put up a fire shield?  Purge. 

I agree that the totems are very situational and a good shaman will change them accordingly and not feel locked down to one 'best' set for everything. I would dispute the practicality of Stoneclaw for protecting anyone, except in solo and possibly duo situations - the aggro generated by the Stoneclaw is weak and unlikely to break anything harder than the 'I've seen you' aggro. Purge is a very useful tool - I've been surprised at how many things get Purged that we didn't even know were on our enemies - though it generates a fair amount of hate itself.

Shaman are most effective when they pay attention to exactly what types of critters, in what numbers and where they are attacking the party.  If we just concentrate on party and ignore mobs, we're crippling ourselves and our party.
Try playing a shaman if you want to use up all your interface buttons.  ;)
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Here's a recent creenshot of my button setup. I need to add some more buttons :blush: I'm not great with hotkeys, so I like to have them all out and available, and I don't have everything out that I'd like. I find that I use nearly every button here surprisingly regularly.