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either or. both are good, but as an enh shammy you really wont be able to tank too much. you CAN tank, but its kind of a haphazard thing, and you generally either need to outlevel the instance, or have a healer who has the instance outleveled.

druids of all specs can tank, heal, and dps at least at a passable level (when geared right). so i suppose druids would have the slight edge, altho it becomes a matter of whether you have the gear to support it. all agi/str gear does not a healer make, regardless of what spells you have.

You extended Quor's statement to include something I don't think he said or meant to say--that being the part about feral druids not being able to heal really well. I'd disagree with that commment, as the ability to heal any (non-heroic) 5-man instances (with the help of a healing set), which many feral druids including myself have said is not just possible but practical, indicates that our healing is just fine.

Innervate is great, but not unique. Some other classes even have the ability to regen mana across their entire party, namely shadow priests and shammies with their totems.

To the OP, I'd personally say druid is the more common, more flexible, and therefore safer route. Across our three specs you can be a top-shelf melee DPS, tank, caster DPS, or healer...and a solid option at 2 or 3 out of 4 in any spec.

At least on my server on alliance side shammies are rare, while there's lots of druids these days. So if you want to be more unique, roll a shammy. If you want the class that has even more versatility, and don't mind being one of a what is unfortunately a relatively "popular" class, roll druid.

I've been spoiled as a druid...I've rolled an alt of every class and can't stay away from my druid. Druids, now, actually...70 feral and 20 balance...my favorite alt, lol. I found that I even had trouble sticking to a shammy...the lack of stealth and inability to tank turned me off.

I've been leveling my Shammy lately (level 36) and it can be really tough early on. My druid, hunter, priest & mage were all much easier to level. If my Shammy pulled an add it seemed like a death almost always resulted. At lower levels, the "taunting" totem seemed to die before I had killed the first mob and I would be getting pounded by both mobs again.

Now that I am a bit higher level, I kill things quicker (windfury FTW) and the "taunt" totem seems to work pretty well. Also, between the grounding totem & earthshock, casters become so easy as well.


Still compared to my druid who seemed to always be able to handle 2-3 mobs the same level or single elites of about the same level, the shammy seems like hard work at this stage. I think the druid has a bit more flexibility, being able to handle 4 roles compared to the shammys 3 (shammys can't really tank). Add to this the ability to stealth and I think the druid wins but then maybe I am a little bit biased :)

Not really, both are good in a pvp situation.