Difficulty of the shaman class?

[pathius41]

In all the MMOs I have played over the years specially EQ, I never tried a shaman. I always meant to try it but never got around to it. My question I guess, I was thinking about toying with one as an alt, are they a hard class to learn/play effectively? easy to learn hard to master?

for reference I played a paladin (quite well I was often told, well past velius) and a rogue imo well up until about a year ago, and played a necro into the 50s allways solo (was alt ) and found I was mediocre at best.