Healer Priest vs Shaman

[Artega]

One thing to consider is that sometimes the best move is not to fight at all. I do this all the time with paladins. Sure, I could probably beat a paladin with my holy smite build priest, but by the time I did it, whatever important thing that was going on in the match had already happened without me. In effect the fight becomes a draw even if I "win," because both of us were taken out of the fight for the duration. What's more, it might actually be a loss. How? Because taking your example where you're on the enemy's ramp, you're probably intending to escort your flag carrier and most enemy players would be happy to know that they tied up the flag carrier's principle escort healer/dispeller.

Similar philosophy behind my Warrior and why I've stayed Protection forever. People that are beating on me (and believe me, it's a lot of people, even against other premades) are not beating on my friends, and ANY spell cast at me - whether it's a damage spell or a CC spell - is a spell not cast at a teammate. While many people would think this is a rather stupid way of playing, I actually believe it makes me at least as important as my team's healers and DPS monkeys simply because I am literally tanking part of the Alliance team:)

One of my favorite things to do is take a single friend with me (of any class) and go camp out near the Alliance graveyard in Warsong or a graveyard in AB or AV and do nothing but engage people that rez. You'd be surprised how many people immediately turn and fight back instead of simply CCing or otherwise ignoring us and proceeding towards their objectives. Some consider this cheap or cheesy, but I simply consider it clever manipulation of the human mind:)