I've restrained myself from making this post for a couple weeks, but I have to let the QQing out. When compared to other classes, elemental shamans have too many tools in their arsenal.

A top DPS class can do the following:
1.) AoE heal
2.) heal without penalty (shapeshifting for moonkin, shadowform for priests, non-spellpower focus for ret)
3.) passive heal (totems)
4.) spell interrupt (not exclusive to the shaman but included to show it's in their toolset)
5.) passive spell protection (set-it-and-forget-it with the totem)
6.) most powerful knockback in the game (moonkin typhoon doesn't compare to the massive range of thunderstorm)
7.) arguably the most powerful protection against fear since useful for a group and is passive
many more not listed....

IMO they need to either reduce the toolset or decrease the DPS for a class with so many options.

Enough QQ... are shamans needed for high-end multiboxing? Yes, PvE content can be done with mixed groups, but not nearly as easy as with multiple shamans. Has anyone had success with 3v3 or 5v5 groups that didn't consist of mostly shamans? I'm trying to resist rolling all shamans and going with the "cookie-cutter" MB group, but knowing how powerful they are, and how I can likely progress farther than with a non-shaman group in both PvE and PvP, is making it difficult.

Feel free to insert "this belongs in the WoW forums" because for once, it probably does. I'm just trying to figure out if I need to reform my team.