Innervate for all Druids!

[lemekim]

My worry is that they'll start caving to other skills in the same way.  What happens if the rogue player base decides Cold Blood is a "must have"?  Tactical Mastery has been called for by Warriors for months and Blizzard has yet to give any word on their plans for that talent, if any.  Are all shamans going to get the mana totem now?

It's those kind of questions that have me wondering why they're doing this with Evocation/Innervate.  I won't look a gift horse in the mouth, as it makes the Druid class more of the switch-hitting hybrid it was meant to be (and paves the way for more variation among non-31-point builds), but I'll be curious to see where they draw the line with this sort of tweak.
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Mana tide totem most likely will become a trainable - or at least a 10 point talent in the Resto tree (I hardly believe any Shaman will miss Combat Endurance). The similarity to the situation with Druids and Innervate is uncanny - a lot of guilds require Shamans to spec Mana Tide, it's a 31 point talent (actually most Shamans have to spend 37 points so that they can get Purification and NS), and it similarly pigeon-holes them into a specific spec, probably even moreso then druids. Expect to see this among the big changes for Shamans at E3.