I actually found the Game Dame blog with this entry, because I was searching for other hunter vs. shaman comparisons. I haven't played anywhere near two years yet (barely six months, in fact — I just read a LOT of blogs in my work downtime), and I'm looking from the other side, but I think I agree with most of her assessments here (although I do think that shamans are fairly complicated, too, until you get the hang of all the totems — did you know that earthbind totem can aggro the Moongraze Stags and Bucks on Azuremyst?).
I'm curious to see what the comparisons are as Ahami gets to the 20s and 30s, though.
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I find shaman and paladin the hardest classes to get into. Shammies are fun, but all the choices of totems quickly fills up my bars and gets confusing.
With the pallies I think its just the low DPS output that annoys me. I really suck at driving my pally and tend to give up in frustration after only a short time playing. I especially hate the lack of any ranged attack.
Warriors are also somewhat difficult for me to maintain interest in. They seem to just whack things until they fall over. Not being able to heal is frustrating.
Heh, the only non-hunter I've ever gotten past 30 is a paladin — she's still on Laughing Skull because I play her with some RL friends on the few instances our schedules match up, but I do love her. If I ever manage to catch them more often, she might actually make it to 70 someday. I really like buffing people (and their pets and demons, when applicable).
I do think I'll manage to get Ahami to 70, though. One of the folks I group with on Ide, when I do group, is a shaman, and watching what he could do from the late-40s to almost 70, I want a shaman. The other classes aren't so interesting to me for some reason, even watching what they can do. And that was the big reason I actually played a hunter — reading blogs and watching some of the videos they put up, I REALLY wanted to try it. I don't get that with any other class but hunter and shaman, and I've seen mid- and high- levels of all of them and tried nearly all of them to the high teens.
The totems are a pain, though. I'm definitely going to be needing an add-on for them — a couple look decent. But even as resto (and I know that it's much easier to level enhancement or even elemental, and I'm considering a hybrid resto/elem build for end-game, but I want to try resto for a while) totems are already getting to be a pain at 17.
I need to figure out macros and additional keybindings for Ide anyway, because with Steady Shot her action bars have officially become unmanageable, so I will have to research some stuff. And get larger bags.
To manage totems, I highly recommend Totemus, an addon. Thanks for linking to me. I'm adding you to my RSS reader and am looking forward to catching up on your blog.
Ooh, thanks for the recommendation! That was one of the ones I looked at, but I'm horrible at making decisions about these things. I will give it a try.
I am catching up on so much WoW/gaming blogs still that I'm sure I'm not really covering anything new but thanks for the comment! :-)
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