They’re addressing this via server balancing methods, not by completely throwing lore out of the window. So far I think it’s working.
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roughly the same percentage of playerbase plays shaman as paladin. Pala is an extremly good healer in pvp, and provides insane utility.
And on top of that will probably start to get better and better as they get Holy Shock and will probably work really well with Arms warriors (due to Blessing of freedom) as the phases progress. We can all expect much more from warriors come level 40 and definitely at level 60.
Holy shock got a 30sec CD…
Shamans get earthshield and watershield
The game needs shaman and paladins in both factions… Or just shamans for the alliance and nothing for horde, like this the lore is respected 
Gonna be fun right
Again, we don’t know how things will turn out at later levels. We might end up with a godlike combo with paladins + warriors, due to how 2h warrior runes work. There’s nothing stopping Blizzard from tuning runes to achieve a semblance of balance.
It’s way to early for you to be saying “Alliance is doomed, balance is needed!”. We don’t know that for sure, it’s too early.
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earthsield is garbage, no one plays it in either pvp or pve right now. mana shield means you don’t get lavaburst, so again you don’t play it.
i think right now, alliance is stronger in pvp than horde.
u are drunk then
at 60 with epic mounts, alliance is stronger. Freedom is much stronger at lower levels do to classes not having rocket boots, and no mount, no coil. Give a druid freedom, and he is litteraly uncatchable. give a warrior freedom, and he can easily connect on efc. so alliance is even stronger now.
Freedom is getting purged every 1 sec 
even your seals is getting purged
trash buffs, cc on shaman. If you arent rebuffing your druid, you are playing the game wrong.
So restoshamans are good healers with a bazooka
And palaheal are just sticking in the ground flash healing and get counterspelled every 6sec by shamans… ooooooooooooooh
resto shamans are garbage healers in pvp. always have been, always will be. There is no point in healing a warrior that is stuck in a frost nova
Does not matter when most of them run 3 shamans and 2 disc
ideal comp right now on horde is 7 hunters, 1 druid and 2 priests. On alliance its 7 hunters, 1 druid, 1 priest, 1 pala
Just give them a chance to give us a version of classic that maintains faction and class fantasy, while introducing new stuff and adding a semblance of balance via those means. No need to jump the gun and have over the top changes. We don’t know how classes will be at lvl 60. We didn’t know how lvl 25 would be to be honest.
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Era servers are here FOREVER for this, the authentic one !
SoD needs the classes on both factions
No, you don’t know that for sure. SOD was build from Classic, not retail. They said themselves they want to preserve the classic feel of the game. In their own words “This is Classic, plus some other things”, not “This is retail, minus some things.”. 40 man raids are a very classic thing. Faction specific classes too.
Even the new runes they’re adding strive to add to the class and faction fantasy (look at priest runes) as much as possible. Let’s not throw everything into the paper shredder just because “shamans might be broken OP and there will be no other way to fix them without giving them to the Alliance”.
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shamans are far from broken right now. They likely will be at 40 though