Hello,
I am looking for a main class to play in WOTLK.
I don’t know what to choose between Shaman and Paladin.
I want to play as a healer but be able to solo farm (reputation…).
I don’t really care about the fun or rotation.
I’ve heard that Shaman are not really good, less healing and the global bloodlust buff.
What is your opinion ?
Can’t help you as I go for fun. But seeing that you’re asking about Wrath, you migth have more replies if you went to the Burning Crusade subforum.
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Hey, Hpala is best healer for wotlk pve&pvp, so there u go.
Hpaly dominates wotlk and most likely to be stacked, while prot paly is one of the best solo farming specs.
Shamy is viable, but none of the specs are exactly something RLs would lose sleep over to my understanding.
Depends on what factors do we consider.
Gameplay is similar, narrowed down to spot-healing low health targets. Paladin also automatically heals the tank for the same amount and Shaman automatically heals two additional lowest health members that are nearby.
Number of cooldowns is the thing where Wotlk Paladin beats any other other healer. Avenging wrath, Divine Guardian, Aura Mastery, Hand of Protection and also Hand of Salvation, all are powerful defensive/threat management tools. Other healers don’t have that many tools to make things easier.
Topping the meters (which shouldn’t be a factor at all but many people seek this) is a Shaman thing on all later content fights if we use healing metric. If we also factor absorbs (Skada addon does this), Discipline Priest is the no1 meter topper.
Spot availability, this one is tricky. You want to have 6 healers if your raid group is very new to the content, 5 as standard, 4 if you are in a speedrunning group. So let’s say 5. 1 spot is reserved for discipline priest (no need to explain this, note that it is impossible to have 2 Dpriests due to Weakened Soul debuff), 1 spot is reserved for holy paladin (the defensive cooldowns and automatic tank healing is necessary), you absolutely want a Resto Druid (a resource battery). That brings us to 2 flexible spots which is more of a personal preference, I’d personally pick 1 Resto shaman and 1 more Resto Druid. I wouldn’t fill any of the flexible spots with a holy paladin tho, two are a bit of an overkill in terms of tank/spot healing and you’d rather focus on raid healing (later content often include constant ticking aura).
not sure who told u that shamans arent good…
but i’d recommend shaman from what you’ve told us.
as shaman u can switch between resto and ele without the need for much farming (because you can use resto gear for ele spec if u just wanted to farm). the same cant be said for holy>ret which requires an entirely new set of gear.
ret also needs alot of gear before u can start doing alot of dam because you need the set bonus which massively buffs divine storm (aoe).
healers have different roles in the raid comp in wotlk. so no healer is better than other, they just have different roles and loot priorities. your job as resto is to provide immediate aoe healing with chains. holy pala just spams on the tanks so they don’t get 1shot.
but ofc raiding is just one part of the game
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