1-59: Shaman is complete dead weight, basically just a SoW bot, bringing mostly unneeded utility. Mage is extremely strong 1-50 with no gear requirements, softens a bit 50+ but still outputting enormous DPS and requiring very modest gear. Necro is very strong 1-50 and adds an extreme level of utility in the form of snare, FD pulling, twitch and Screaming Terror for charm breaks while also putting out good DPS with the pet or undead charm the entire time. Falls off a little 50+ but remains very strong and provides enormous utility still.
There's basically no reason to ever pick the Shaman unless you are already all geared out at 60 and trying to four man something really hard that you need to slow ASAP and which you can also leverage the Shaman DoTs on. The Necro adds so much more value over the life of the group from 1-60 it isn't even funny.
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