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"Sorry, this is a really long evaluation of a shaman compared to other classes. Im sure its not the first but this is mine.
"What is a shaman's role?" A shaman is -supposed- to be a support class with better melee abilities than say, a druid. The problem is, they should have pieces of many other classes, but not excel in any one classes specialty. This is sort of true, but the end result is this.

Armor- Shaman wear mail, second best in the game. They also can wear shields, making them the next highest armor besides warriors and paladins, alone this isnt a problem but when combined with the rest of this list perhaps you'll understand.

Melee- namely, windfury. This is the only weapon ability people use to fight. The reason is because it is completely stacked for slow weapons. While you can argue it'll take longer to proc this is irrelevant, since it is still % based, and when it DOES proc if you’re using a slow weapon you can instant kill a cloth class because of the extra attack power added on (which grants a bigger dmg boost to a slow weapon than a fast weapon)
Example, Arcanite Reaper = 3.8 speed, meaning that every 1DPS you add (14 AP i believe) you get +3.8 damage. +665 attack power on the next 2 (instant) attacks. 665/14 = 47.5dps, 47.5*3.8 = 180.5 extra damage on the next 2 free attacks.
Lets assume the shaman has a base AP of 1000. 153-256 (reaper dmg 204 avg)= 53.8dps + 1000/14 ~ 71dps. 71*3.8 = 270 dmg per swing. Now we’re at 474 dmg per swing. Let’s proc windfury now.
Swing 1 – 474 damage (weapon + AP)
Swing 2 – 654 damage (added 180 damage from windfury AP)
Swing 3 – 654 damage (same as 2). Grats! you just hit for almost 1800 damage on one melee attack, one crit on any of those puts you well over 2000 damage on one attack. But sure, seeing this shaman are primarily a melee dps class correct? Much like rogues? Compared to a rogues eviscerate at level 60 which is 888-984 damage means on a crit evis a rogue (the highest melee dps class) can not deal as much damage with a 5 combo point crit finisher as a shaman who crits a 20% chance windfury. Surely they only excel like this in melee combat right? Afraid not.

Shocks- Instant cast nukes with varying effects? Sounds pretty strong, maybe its balanced though, lets see. I will compare this section to a mage, since they are the main burst dps magic class. Mages Fire Blast is a similar spell, lets compare. At level 60 a fire blast will deal 431-509 fire damage (470 average). It is instant cast and has an 8 second cooldown. Not bad, this equals 58.75 dps just by itself.
Compare to shocks. Earth shock at level 60 does 517-545 damage (531 average). In addition to this damage it automatically interrupts any spell being cast and prevents that school from being cast for 2 seconds, AND the cooldown on this amazing spell is 6 seconds (not counting the talents, which ill get in to later.) This spell alone dishes out 88.5 dps. Frost shocks average damage is exactly 500, and has an 8 second snare. It is subject to diminishing returns in pvp however, so after you have dealt the 1500 frost shock damage and any melee damage while they were snared theyre immune, how unfair to shaman. (feel the sarcasm?)
Not only are these spells extremely strong, but a smart shaman can only use level 1 frost and earth shocks for their extra effects. A level 1 earth shock should not interrupt a level 60’s spell, and a level 1 frost shock should not snare a level 60 for 8 seconds. Wow, extreme instant cast spell dps and melee dps? Sounds like a purely dps based class to me. Unfortunatly, no =(

Healing- Shaman have a few heal options, much like druids. They have a 1.5 second cast quick heal which I will compare to priests 1.5 second cast flash heal, and a 3 second cast heal, which I will compare to a priests greater heal and a druids healing touch (since none exactly equal the cast time)
Lesser healing wave heals 832-928 (880 avg). A priests flash heal will heal 812-958 (885 avg.) With this you can see a shamans flash heal is virtually identical to a priests. Why does such an extreme DPS classes quick heal equal the main healing class in the game? I don’t know either.
Healing wave I have to break down by HP healed per second to cast to compare.
Healing wave heals 1367-1561 ( 1464 avg). /3 = 488hp per second cast.
Druids healing touch heals 1890-2230 (2060 avg) /3.5 = 588hp per second cast
Priests greater heal heals 2396-2974 (2685 avg) / 4 = 671.25hp per second cast.
From this I cannot really complain, as it seems to scale correctly with where shaman should fall in the ‘healing hierarchy.’ However in pvp you are using quick heals which still equals a priests. Quite a class so far. Extreme damage, both melee and magic ranged, and they have high armor and can heal. Sounds too strong so far, but we’re not done yet unfortunately. Totem time!

Totems- I like the idea of totems personally, it adds a uniqueness to the class. However for what should be the main focus of the class theyre surprisingly unnecessary, especially considering everything else shaman have going for them. Things like earthbind totems and poison cleansing and for casters the dreaded grounding totem which for the most part cleanly eliminates any advantage you may try to gain over a shaman. You can argue they can be destroyed but they only have usually 15 sec cooldowns and things like earthbind cost virtually no mana. Totems are supposed to be a basic part of the class but with things like windfury weapon and shocks you can opt not to use them entirely, which isn’t an option for other classes. Imagine a hunter/warlock without a pet, a paladin without blessings, a rogue without combo points! THAT is what a shaman without totems should feel like, handicapped. Now my favorite part, talents.

Talents- It’s hard to properly compare talents but I’ll try since many are similar for different classes. For instance, most classes have a talent set that increases their critical strike damage in something by X% per talent point.
Druids have vengeance, +20% bonus crit strike dmg per talent point added, tier 6 talent.
Mages have ice shards, +20% bonus crit dmg on ice spells per talent point, tier 2.
Shaman get elemental fury. +100% bonus crit dmg on fire frost and nature spells (so…all their damage spells basically). 1 point for all that compared to 5 points for the other classes, and mages only get 1 element on top of that. Completely illogical.

Mages get arcane concentration, 2% chance per talent to get a clearcasting state (free spell) when a damage spell hits.
Shaman get elemental focus, 10% chance to enter clearcasting on a damage spell. Same thing, but costs 1 talent point instead of 5. (For a support class they seem to get a lot of top talent skills just handed to them.)
Shaman get reverberation. This is the one that really annoys me. Tier 3 talent and with 5 points their shocks go from 6 second to 5 second cooldowns. Shocks were ALREADY stronger than a mages instant cast nuke with a shorter cooldown and added effects (silence, snare or DoT). This talent is ludicrous.
The rest of the talent tree isn’t quite as obscene, but is still very good. I think you get the point.

Great armor, extreme dps, great healing, good totems, and amazing talents

I hold this truth to be self evident, that shaman are indeed intentionally overpowered. There is no way you can possibly rationalize these numbers. I ask people to please, don’t quickly post flames and say things like “Shaman cant use 2h axes without putting a few talent points into their enhancement tree” I know this, please be more informative. This was supposed to be a logical assessment of a shamans abilities to illustrate they needed to be rebalanced. If you’re going to respond please be informative or at least not offensive. And I do apologize for this being so long =( "

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