Gotta think of shaman as "prevention" instead of "cure" in the healing sense. Slows, regens and buffs are all ways to improve DPS and reduce damage taken, which means less reliance on in-combat and post-combat heals. The downside is it's quite mana intensive... keeping your party in chloro/str/agi/haste AND have enough spare mana to toss a heal once in a while can be tricky. But doable, up to a certain level. When it works, however (ie: you strike the mana balance that doesn't require your puller to stop) the xp rolls in faster than with a cleric, because you can increase your groups DPS, which means faster kills, which means more pulls.
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