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.