Originally Posted by Avair
A couple of points of rebuttal.
1. Earthshield isn't really that great. Its better in 2v2 than 5v5 for sure, but its still a wasted talent point vs. any team with a mage/priest or shaman. Just on pure odds, you are only going see a 2v2 team without one of those 44% of the time (Math check please: 6 non-dispellers/9 classes ^ 2). It also has greatly reduced effectiveness vs warrior/rogue due to healing reduction effects.
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Many talent points are useful in less than 44% of fights you see, and yet they are talents worth getting. Is there 1pt worth of a talent elsewhere that would be worth taking over Earthshield?
The rest of your points I'd agree with (save the fact that my strategy against a resto shaman is to switch my poisons to wound/mindnumbing and burn him down, rather than outlast his healing by dpsing his friend.) Shamans aren't everything, cause if they were they'd be set up for a nerf. :]