Yesintheface
OG
Srsly, Druid, shaman are not as survivable. I think pretty much everyone said they can be fine. But palies and druids are better healers.
LoS you say? Resto shaman have one instant on a 3m cooldown. Plus breaking LoS is a good way to get pinched by a rogue where your teammates can't see you. If you're casting ES, you aren't casting a heal. Having to even worry about dropping grounding totems and ES to stay un-CCed is distraction enough to lessen your healing. Finally, if you're out of range, you're not healing.
I hate playing this card, but I have both an 80 shaman and an 80 druid. Healing on the druid is 300% easier. There are some really good resto shaman out there and the class isn't worthless. But it's so much easier to dictate the fight to a resto shaman than holy paly or resto druid.
My Shaman.
My Druid.
Just so you can see I've done a little PvPing on both. I love shamans. It's my favorite class by far. But I'd never tout them as equal PvP healers to druids. Maybe 3.1 will change some things, we'll see.
LoS you say? Resto shaman have one instant on a 3m cooldown. Plus breaking LoS is a good way to get pinched by a rogue where your teammates can't see you. If you're casting ES, you aren't casting a heal. Having to even worry about dropping grounding totems and ES to stay un-CCed is distraction enough to lessen your healing. Finally, if you're out of range, you're not healing.
I hate playing this card, but I have both an 80 shaman and an 80 druid. Healing on the druid is 300% easier. There are some really good resto shaman out there and the class isn't worthless. But it's so much easier to dictate the fight to a resto shaman than holy paly or resto druid.
My Shaman.
My Druid.
Just so you can see I've done a little PvPing on both. I love shamans. It's my favorite class by far. But I'd never tout them as equal PvP healers to druids. Maybe 3.1 will change some things, we'll see.