[bcbrown]

Vexenu and I have both made substantial arguments, perhaps you can engage with him or I. Repeating my earlier post:

Originally Posted by bcbrown [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Clerics provide substantially better blast healing. Sometimes shit hits the fan and rapid healing is more important than mana-efficient healing. Here's the health per second figures of shaman and cleric heals:
Greater Healing - 80 HPS for cleric, 72 HPS for shaman
Superior Healing - 129 HPS for cleric, 116 HPS for shaman
Remedy, level 51 - 146 HPS
Divine Light, level 53 - 200 HPS
Chloroblast, level 55 - 128 HPS
Torpor - 300hp/tick is 50 HPS

Cleric health per second is 129 at level 50 compared to 72 for shaman. 200 to 128 at 55 onwards.

Last night I was cleric for a CoM arena group - two enchanters, a rogue, and a ranger who was pulling and tanking. We had absolutely insane DPS, and were clearing arena, the goo houses, and most of the moat. At one point one of the enchanters started getting slapped around, perhaps on a charm break. I had to chain-cast superior healing, superior healing, greater healing, with the first spell landing at about 15%, the second at about 20-25%, and the third bringing them back up to almost full.

I'm level 49, so if I was on my shaman my best heal would be greater healing. Two GH would have been 540hp, while the two SH healed over 1150. That enchanter would have died if I was on my shaman.