Main healing with a Shaman works okay. Ideally you don't want to have to focus on much else beyond heals and slows (have someone else do the crowd control). Having an Enchanter or at least a Bard to help with crowd control and mana regeneration is obviously preferable, and there's nothing wrong with inviting a second Shaman or a Druid to be able to swap off with on healing duty as mana requires. Having a quality tank helps since as the tank gets better the amount of healing he requires decreases. Paladins are really nice if available since their buffs stack with Shaman buffs and the heals are appreciated. Jaundiced Bone armor click effects can help with buffs, and in many/most cases people don't require all buffs in the first place. No need to put Strength on that Enchanter, or DEX on anyone who doesn't have proc weapons, etc. If you're downranking slows be sure to remember that the lower-level slows tend to have short durations. If you use the level 39 slow to slow 4 things right away on a multi-pull, there's a fair bet it'll fade by the time the group gets to the last one. Chloroblast has better mana efficiency than Superior Heal so try to stick with the former as much as practical. Keep regeneration up on the tank and keep it working (in other words, try to avoid healing him all the way to full). Finally, don't overthink it. The wife on her Shaman was able to main heal Karnor leveling groups on P99 years ago back when AC did little-or-nothing and nobody had all this fancy Velious equipment that we have nowadays and it wasn't particularly hard even then.
Really the most important thing is having a group that'll work together, especially a puller. Probably the most common cause of experience groups dying on P1999 is because of dumb pullers who keep right on pulling even when the rest of the group is out of mana and pleading for a break. Communicate early and often, and if you notice your puller's ignoring all feedback and operating on pull-pull-PULL autopilot, get out while the getting's good.
Danth
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