10-31-2005, 08:05 AM
The "shaman better than paladins in instances" argument really doesn't fly. Both classes function pretty differently, and bring equal amounts to groups yet in different ways. For every situation (save for 2 in which the pally pulls way ahead - blessings of salvation and wisdom) in which one excells it's easy to find a situation in which the other excells. Both classes also suffer from the 'hybrid stigma' in that they're both pretty limited in any certain field due to the nature of being jacks of all trades masters of none, and also from lackluster mana pools. Due to that, both classes get limited to blessing/totem bots and bad healers in instances, it's kinda sad :(.
I'd like to see this "absurd dps" shamans do, the class has been my main since November and I've still yet to find this thing that so many Alliance tell me exists :P. You'd be surprised at how similar it is with paladin dps. Shamans have potential for high damage completely based on the luck of crits and proc percentages, and blowing all of their mana on horribly inefficient spells which leave them dead in the water for healing or screwed vs. multilple enemies (it's like all the rogue pvp videos which only show you the cold-blood eviserate crits on cloth wearers). That grass on the other side of the fence is always greener, hehe.
I'd like to see this "absurd dps" shamans do, the class has been my main since November and I've still yet to find this thing that so many Alliance tell me exists :P. You'd be surprised at how similar it is with paladin dps. Shamans have potential for high damage completely based on the luck of crits and proc percentages, and blowing all of their mana on horribly inefficient spells which leave them dead in the water for healing or screwed vs. multilple enemies (it's like all the rogue pvp videos which only show you the cold-blood eviserate crits on cloth wearers). That grass on the other side of the fence is always greener, hehe.