since follow is off the table I would just spec resto shamans after having all the preraid bis gear which you can farm with elemental (almost everything depending on balance eventually). 5 resto shamans are perfectly viable in 40 mans and zg with 2-3, if you put 11-20 points in the enhance tree you can also enjoy windfury gameplay or stick to fast 1h flametongue. And even without elemental spec 5 ns chainlightings with 5 firenova totems will still have double oneshot potential

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Things are slow at first for every class but once you get more tools like mocking blow, intercept and cleave things really start to ramp up.
what i found most annoying about cleave and hs, from p.s. experience, that it cancels if you press twice and i think that was also like that on live. So if your melee swings are desynched idk if it goes through all the time if you spam it or just ignore missing a few. its definetly worth using though since stuff like bloodthirst doesnt do damage without proper ap gear. In general i found it very hard to optimize this comp in early levels, for example battlestance vs berserker stance in single target, access to overpower vs 3% crit. I didnt really see a notable difference but i know there has to be one, it just seems insignificant. The worst part is when you throw windfury or improved wf into the equation it gets really weird in the single target case, as hamstring spam seems to outdps every other ability up to lvl 60 in bad gear, since we can't go 2h slam build because the swing timer reset stuff will be too difficult to manage, i makes sense that hamstring spam is then probably better for boxing... while searching for 2h builds with windfury i came across a 3/5 sword 3/5 flurry spec with hamstring spam which seems really fun to try with hand of justice. After all the only way to find out is having each warrior in one of the possible specs, similar gear, and observe their dps for a long time