Enhance fun vs. DK dpsFollow

There are too many DKs in the world nowadays.

The question facing you is are you willing to level another toon from 21 to 55 or do you want to cut in line and go to 55?

Like what I've said in other threads, enh shams lvl pretty quickly from 50 and up. Plus with all the leveling nerfs, I'm sure they'd level pretty fast at lower levels. DKs level VERY fast. You can kill just about anything in no time, or several mobs in no time. You start out OP and end OP.

But what has been said in countless other threads. No one can tell you what you would like to level. Only you know what you like.

I'd definitely say the shammy. First of all there are far too many DK's around, added to this you are competing for look with Paladins (which there are also too many of since ret got buffed) and Warriors. With the shammy you are only competing with hunters (which I admit there are also a lot of but the odds are still better). Added to this you have the option of going ranged/caster dps and competing with nobody. Same goes for heals.

Well level the DK as a tank and the sham as a healer. That way youll never be left out of a party or raid.
Shaman can be melee but they dont have to be. Ive loved playing my sham as elemental and with recent changes its a pretty viable spec. DK's can only tank or melee dps, they dont have the option of doing anything more than melee'ing. If thats your thing go with the DK if you want more versatility go with the shaman.
Im leveling a DK and I have an 80 sham and I love them both.

Edited, Feb 1st 2009 8:31pm by Laddy

My guild JUST got our first level 80 shaman. He's enhance (would have killed for Resto! Ah well), and we're thrilled. We already have two DKs in our 10-man Naxx group, but shamans bring MUCH more, IMO, to the group. Tools like Poison Cleansing Totem trivialize some encounters. Being able to self-res means we can run without a warlock or lets him continue doing DPS if something went wrong. An emergency instant-CH takes some pressure off the healers. A lot of the buffs are redundant (Winfury -> whatever frosts have, SoE --> HoW, Unleashed Raged --> Might of Mograine), but the other buffs are great. A shaman has more versatility, is rarer these days, and still brings more-than-adequate DPS to the raid.

Well, that's kind of like saying an apple is harder to figure out than an orange... neither of them are that difficult if you're willing to put any kind of effort into learning them. Of course, "perfection" may take you a while, but that's not really unique to any class...

No PvP, no tanking, no healing, only "melee" dps comparison. I think I´ll go with the shaman. I´ve started leveling the DK towards level 70 for JCing and Inscription, but for now i´m not too fond of the play style, though that may change. Seeing as the game kind of keeps getting more boring and I´m running out of things to do on my level 80 chars, I´ll probably have more time to spend on both DK and shaman to reach a definite conclusion, picking one for level 80.

As always, I suggest that this is a largely subjective issue.

I didn't find my DK all that much more difficult to play than my Enhancement Shaman once I finally got the hang of the class. When my Shaman was Enhancement, I had to constantly check my MSW stack (since the proc has no animation) and monitor SS debuffs remaining on the enemy while watching the cooldown on all five attacks I regularly used since they never came up in the same order even on a stationary tank-and-spank fight.

My DK, by comparison, I find fairly simple. Yes, I do have to monitor my runes, but mainly only because a miss or parry, like you said, can throw me off. Once I'm hit-capped at 80 with some expertise, it'll be just that much easier. I know my priorities/rotations by heart. Freezing Fog (I'm Frost) is the only proc I have to worry about, and though I do admittedly sometimes miss its animation, at least it has one.

I'm not trying to be argumentative either, but let's face it... this whole thread is stupid. No one can really tell anyone else what class is more entertaining or easier to play or anything else because it depends entirely on the person playing.

Edited, Feb 9th 2009 11:43am by Gaudion