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Two classes who are very alike and are capable of similar roles like healing, range dps, melee dps. A druid can add a tanking role to it's arsenal as well. But since you're considering both character I'm guessing that tanking is not your thing, or else this choice wouldn't be hard.
Personally, I have both classes and enjoy them equally. My druid is one of my first character and therefor still my main. But if I had to make the choice again at this time, I'd make the shaman my main if it was only because the
forms get so freaking boring after a while
. Gear should show on a character, no matter what level.
Another thing to consider though is PvP. Should you want to PvP for example and are dps oriented, I'd say take the druid. It's PvP viability is (in my opinion) far greater in that case. However, both classes are very viable for PvP healing. I think the resto druid can endure a little bit more pawning on it's head compared to the resto shaman, but both are able to output similar healing when focusing on their teammates.
Anyway, this is just my opinion and it may be horribly different from others :)
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i've seen alot of insane shamans out there doing some wild pvp,....
I think you saw some good players handling a class very well. But the shaman abilities for PvP dps are still far lower
compared to other classes
. You can't denie that. Sure there are skilled shamans out there who are better than let's say the average noob DK. But that says more about the player than the character.
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Depends on the spec.
Elemental vs. Balance~ Elemental has amazing burst damage to kill things quick, balance has more AoE and DoT, making them more suited for spreading damage out and causing mass genocide, especially with starfall. I prefer balance, but there is a very satisfying feel in killing something in 3 seconds with a few lucky crits and lightning overloads with elemental.
Enhancement vs. Feral~ Druids have stealth, and it rocks. Tanking is good too. However, unlike enhancement, feral druid's spells are pretty useless, so they don't have the same versatility for healing and nuking.
Restoration vs. Restoration~ I love HoTs personally, so I like druid heals. But if you like nuke heals, especially 1 second lesser healing waves, go shaman. It's got a unique sort of flavor, and is a much more active healing style. With a druid, you'll mostly lay a few heal over time's on the tank and then jump around or punch things in tree form for the novelty of it.
I play druids and shamans as my main classes. Honestly, I feel rather limited as a shaman. Less mobility, no stealth, harder to get away from things. As the supposed Jack-of-all-trades class, they lack quite a bit of versatility. Totems are a pain too. Big pain. However, so are forms. It's much harder for a druid to shift from one role to another.
Really, it's a matter of preference. Both classes are awesome, so have fun!
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clearly you aren't aware how good shamans are/was..! you are saying shamans abilities for pvp are lower than others classes, i can asure this isnt true
Can you then explain to me why there is only one shaman ranked in the top50 in 2v2 bracket? And only a handful in 3v3? The only "top ranked" shamans can be found in the 5v5 bracket. So yes, as long as shamans aren't capable of getting rank in the other brackets, their pvp abilities are lacking.
clearly you aren't aware how good shamans are/was
Why? Only because I say shaman abilities are lacking compared to others? I <3 my shaman and I never said they sucked. They're just less than several other classes.
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Caleiopeia
I got both a feral druid and an enhancement shaman on 80 and that makes me say that both classes are awesome. With my druid I can switch in a fight from cat to bear for some emergency off-tanking, switch to normal form to combat rez some1, pop a tranquility for some emergency heals together with some hot's and switch back to cat to continue the dps. That is pretty nice and fun to play. Hard part of feral is the rotation you should follow (priorities) and energy management. You bring a nice buff to raids with a 5% crit-increase and ofcourse your different rolls you could perform and a combat rez.
What I like most about shamans is the fact that you combine melee with spells, you do a lot of damage if you know what to do and you bring really nice raidbuffs with your totems and talents. You miss some things like emergency tanking or combat rez, but you bring a lot of different things into the raid. Emergency ofhealing, survivability (wolves) and a nice dps.
I am still in doubt of which class should be my main. My druid is 25m raid geared, my shaman just dinged 80 but both are just awesome in their own way. Just try both and decide when they are 80. It really depends what you like during the way to 80 and what you prefer during raids cq hc's.
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