So I made the plunge and moved my Druid over to my resto shaman account to get a better idea on the situation. Ran a heroic instance I downed with my Shaman almost a week ago. It was extremely difficult and as far as PvE goes the Resto Shaman is the clear winner.
The real issue which I didn't even consider the entire time... the Shaman group buffs Mastery and spell power are Massive! not a little bit, but massive. On the tooltip I gain 26% frost damage without a Shaman and 38% with. My team was doing roughly 30k dps each on the Frost DK's. Swap in a Shaman instead and they now pump out 40k dps. Tack on Heroism and a stormlash totem for boss fights and it was night and day.
The only way the comp would work properly for PvE with a Druid healing in my opinion is mixing it up further. Would require an enhancement shaman for the extra buffs.
It appears Paladins also get Mastery too, via Blessing of Kings, and also get the stats modifier as well. For some reason I keep writing them off as a healer when I know they are amazing, frankly I just don't want to level one.
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