Originally Posted by
rda
Look, I don't mean to say that rshamans are the hardest of them all. Who's hardest is a stupid thing to discuss. I am just saying that maybe they aren't as easy to play as some other healer specs in the beginning because you are getting focused all the time, for good reasons (hard to escape / survive and it takes skill not to get exposed in the first place, which you, as a beginner, don't have) and so you live for a whole of twenty seconds and it might be a bit hard to learn when you die so fast while CCd half the time. That's all.
And no, this - "Literally all you have to do is drop totems, spam riptide and earth shield and you're done" - is BS. I am not sure what you are calling low rated play, it might be 800 for all I know, but at 1600+ double dd already know enough to kill a beginner rshaman in less than twenty seconds.
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I mentioned conductivity solely because it looked like you didn't know the spec. It still looks that way, by the way.