Not liking shamans so far

[heyaz]

My shamans will probably hit 60 later today. They are 56 now and so far I think they are pretty boring. They are elemental right now. Most of the time they run out of mana right away, and every mob takes two rotations of lightning bolt to kill. 5 lightning bolts usually bring them to about 15% left, then I can either finish up with melee (incredibly slow) or another round of bolts.

Chain lightning is meh. Totems are really annoying to keep up with while questing. I hardly ever put them down, and if I do then there goes a shitload of mana. Even totemic recall is useless, I barely get any mana back. So I only lay down a totem of wrath, and maybe fire totems to finish off the mobs if I don't feel like casting lightning bolt again.

Compared to my 5 paladins, they have been pretty darn boring. The paladins never had any downtime from 0-60. Every mob was one shot, then move on.

Wil they get better once they hit 58 and get outlands gear from doing those quests?

Shaman kind of suck at low levels as elemental, you need spell power and crit to really make them shine. They get considerably better with outlands gear

As far as totems...are you still laying them one by one? In the last patch there's a 1 button spell to lay all four. I couldn't imagine it being much easier now.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Of course, if you're Hordie scum<spit> you'll need to find the Horde equivalent quests

[Slayde]

You should not be running out of mana while questing if you are using water shield (unless you are doing large chain pulls of mobs). Once I had the hellfire quest gear, I think I can barely drank at all from then on to 80 unless running instances or doing large amounts of mobs.

[Gares]

I leveled as elemental with both sets of my shammies (Both Alliance and Horde) and its not all that bad as everyone is making it out to sound. You do run out of mana pre 60 but its still a cakewalk and after that every fight is almost a running spam of Earth shock/Frost shock spam with 4-5 shammy that you have. No need to ever stop moving unless you have to collect something.

[d0z3rr]

I put my shamans aside then started leveling my locks to 60, in preparation for a 10lock group (have 4 more locks to go).

Now I'm back with my shaman group to take a break before boosting more locks. I got my shamans to 62 last night and they are almost done with zangarmarsh.

They have a small mana pool at 5800 mana, but since getting water shield glyphed, I've noticed mana isn't too much of an issue now. Thunderstorm REALLY helps, as I can randomly cast that to get 8% of my mana back.

I like the shamans in that they have a constant stream of dmg, whereas the paladins were more of a burst dmg.

So far they have slowly been gaining my interest back.

[Svpernova09]

I leveled 3 shaman from 1-35, Boosted from 35-43, quested from 43-80. I loved every bit of it. All as elemental. Pre 60, you'll be using a lot of cloth, and even after, a bit of cloth and leather.

I can see what you mean with 5 paladins VS 5 shaman though, I just leveled my solo paladin from 63-70 and NEVER stopped to drink or eat.