Originally Posted by
Holofernes
i think resto druid beats everything right now. Shamans beat everything in burst heal, but lack cc (nearly every team has druid or shaman healer + a mage or druid in it, so double hex dispell).
Totems are strong cds wich can save the day while getting stunned / silenced, but way too often i die in a shockwave or deep freeze switch, as soon as the trinket is down, u are practically dead as shaman, even with nearly 9 k resilience u wont survive a shockwave / deep freeze switch. I am not the best pvper, only challenger, and 5 time duellant with other classes, atm struggling with warlock or dk + owl at 1800 mmr, but the last time i felt so helpless as resto shaman in 3s was in s6/s7, when tsg , phd, and castercleave was modern.
I dont even want to know how hard the t2 weapon guys hit, but nowadays any skilled mage can kill anyone in a deepfreeze /blanket silence kombo from 100 to 0 in 3 or 4 globals.
It feels so brutal to play against shatteplay nowadays, u totaly played the other team out, all their cds out, and then he just randomly onehits someone in a df.
Lets see how it works out with the 5.1 patch, but i assume with totems becoming spell school, not usable while silenced, shaman healer will take a very big hit, and those "skillful" (TM wowDevs) blanket silences and the free spellsteal still around.
If i interpret the Ptr-Notes right even tremor cant be used after a fear bomb, as it becomes a spell. if it would still be usable while feared, u can assume that spriests will figure out to blanket u to "skillfully" hinder u on tremoring for 5 secs, while in a 8 sec fear. gg man.
Grounding totem cant be placed when softcountered, windshock cant be used and so on. its just too much, especially considered the amount of shadow / mage teams.