Originally Posted by Praetorian

But they do have CC. Enhancement shamans don't. Warriors don't, really. But rogues and hunters certainly do, even if it's not quite as straightforward as poly or running up to a healer and hitting Psychic Scream on cooldown.

I understand the basic point about coordination -- yeah, on a 5v5 level, when you need to coordinate a mix of CCs, silences, and interrupts in order to create a window of opportunity for a kill, that's more complex than a brute-force approach where you just beat on a target until the other healers run out of mana and then your target dies. Maybe it's "harder."

But I've never really bought into all the bullshit people throw around about team setups requiring or not requiring any skill to play. Basically every workable team anyone has ever thought of has been derided at some point as being devoid of skill and a "scrub express" of some sort. The name 2345 reflects a joke about how you mash those buttons to gib your target with an elem sham burst. 4 DPS? Yeah, scrub setup. Drain team? Wow, no skill. Healer-heavy? Boring, no skill. And so on. Everyone always says that every composition but their own is lame and takes no skill.

It's dumb. If it works, play it. If it works but isn't fun for you, don't play it. Etc.

But that's kind of far afield in an enhancement shaman discussion, isn't it? I'm sure enhancement shamans would love to have some CC and more mobility to give them more options in any given scenario and thus enable more "skilled" play, but they don't exactly have a choice.