Playing the Shaman in group

[Branaddar]

Interesting. Good to know. I'm sure some tweaking will be done to bring them back down a smidge. I guess it depends on how the dual wield / double attacks end up firing. With them as they are now (from reading other posts) I can see how monks would have a leg up in DPS.

I'm still contemplating if I want to wait until Kunark to start my monk or not. My first was an iksar, it feels almost anathema to make a Human monk :P

Edit: Out of curiosity, what's the shaman vs monk situation for the mid- and high-end? Too many/not enough of which? I'm tossed between which of the two I want to play as a main. I'm leaning towards shaman because they're less of an "active" role in raids than monk. But I don't want to hit 50 and find all the guilds are chock full of shaman and lacking monks.