The Bear Shaman is a tank among priests. Now I should mention that I played a healbot in WoW and in no way I am looking forward to playing a healer in any type of raiding or PvP situation. I get to know that they are extremely helpful and necessary but that got the old quick. But if you are interest in taking a healer class, the Bear Shaman might be a possible option for you.
Bear Shamans don't just sit back and heal. The Bear Shaman excels at melee, with their weapon choices ranging from two-handed blunts, bows, crossbows, and thrown weapons. Not all skills work with all weapon types, so you'll have to make sure you have the right tools for whatever job you set out to do. While I've found the Bear Shaman to be difficult to solo, especially under level 15, the good wow power leveling news is that I've seen the Bear Shaman easily hold their own against their heavy armor counterparts in PvP. Bear Shamans are also highly sought after in groups, so typically you do not need to solo unless you want to. You won't have a choice but to solo for your Night time Awakening quests.
The only Priest class with the ability to wear Medium armor (as early as level 10). Able to deal two handed damage with the best of first line fighters, the healing abilities of the Bear Shaman class make them a welcome addition to any group. The Bear Shaman is the druid class of Age of Conan, but embodies the Spirit of the Bear, instead of actually taking the form of it's totem animal.
When two bear shamans get together in PvE is crazy. Mobs that take like 4 people can be killed easily.
The talent trees for the Bear Shaman consist of a generic healing tree (which all healers get), and specifically for Bear Shamans: Wrath and Spirit. Wrath is a physical, damage based tree, whereas Spirit is more of a protection/buffing tree with feats for absorbing damage and such. Full wrath is amazing, seems like spirit isn't very good. But since you have 80 levels you'll be using more than 1 tree, maybe 1.5.
The Bear Shaman draws its power from the forces of Tranquility and Fury. From the feats of Tranquility come the powers to heal in times of need. From the feats of Fury the Bear Shaman unleashes the claws of the bear upon it's foes. While great strength and power embodies the Bear Shaman in later levels (a well played Bear Shaman can hold it's own in PvP), soloing a Bear Shaman in the earlier levels can be a daunting and humbling task. It's not until approximately level 15 that the Bear Shaman comes into it's own. This first class overview will focus on the skills the Bear Shaman has to draw from during the first 10 levels.
Bear Shamans like the other two healers get 2 HoTs (Heal over times) and one nuke heal (Not available until level 30). Those are the only 3 heals you get (at least at level 45). The nuke heal is even broken right now, but when its working it puits a 1 minute debuff on everyone affected (within wow gold I believe) Meaning that particular spell cannot be recasted with effect until the debuff is gone, which will present real challenges for raiding but that's neither here nor there. Bear shamans get their first HoT called Renewal which is an ability, not a spell.
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The Bear Shaman