I love my mage… but I find it very difficult to do almost anything.
I get my butt handed to me by packs of 3-4 when trying to do dailies or horrific visions…
Considering leveling up/maining another class in the meantime…and I’m stuck between Shaman and Druid, since there’s some ‘variety’ in terms of what role you can play for content.
My guild mate told me that Druid is great for solo-ing content since bear form is at least somewhat resilient…
But I love the visuals and gameplay ‘look’ for Shaman…wondering if it’s equally viable for solo-ing content?
Help 
What are some of those features? I know their shapeshifting ability is a big one, but what are some others?
I have no survivability problems with shaman, and I am completely satisfied with my dps, so I would pick shaman
Demon Hunters are pretty tough vs world content. Questing as a Vengeance DH is like being unkillable.
I havent got DK to 120 yet but I’m gonna guess they are hard to kill, too.
Paladin, hunter also IME are tough enough, but DH takes the cake.
Shaman has terrible survivability. Enhancement has arguably the worst in the entire game.
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I’d say Monk, DH, or DK would be your best bet for durability and survivability.
I’m a former FDK main, and while I love the Mage’s tele’s, good God…getting killed by 3 quest mobs was both humbling and … questionable.
To be fair that’s user error not the class
All of the classes can handle multiple mobs at once, it just comes down to gear and familiarity with your class. Ultimately it comes down to the play style you enjoy the most.
The class is very squishy when compared to others. It may be unfair to compare the survivability of a Mage to that of DK, but they’re still squish.
If you stand there in melee range of mobs without using shields, blink heal, dragons breath, nova etc yeah you’ll probably take damage.
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My main is an Enh Shaman, she is only ilvl 428 and can handle pretty much anything handed to her. From solo to mobs.
I also have an Ele Shaman who is ilvl 427 and the same goes for her.
No issues. I really love both of them. I’m leveling up an Ele Shaman from 0 just for fun and for her, Only doing quests, so she is a bit undergeared and while she can’t solo Dungeons at her level she has no problems out in the world. Even though she is undergeared. She is currently in Northrend, just hit 70.
I love the visuals and the sounds! Can’t beat them. lol
Enhancement shamans can be prettty survivable with the right essences and azerite. Zandalari troll also has regeneratin which works well with your earth elemental.
Ehhh mage has insane survivability. If you’re dying, even with 449 Ilvl, you’re prob doing something wrong.
Moonkin is a tanky caster-they have pretty good passive damage reduction, reasonable healing, and good escape in most situations. Their burst is relatively low though so burning mobs down can be challenging.
Shaman toughness is really tied into elemental use. Works great for soloing and open world content but is poor in group content and PVP. Shaman have pretty much no passive healing.
Frankly, we do not know how classes are going to play. We will get a better result when alpha drops and we can see what changes classes have in store.
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I have no issues with my enhancement shaman, but I’m decently set up and did pick up a leech azerite trait which helps.
Druid is decent all around with Guardian spec, and if you prefer balance, get resto affinity for passive healing and some of the heavier resto heal spells.
If you want to stay more pure caster. Aff warlock (though you might want to level as demo), is ridiculously survivable. Also plate dps are all decently survivable.
Right? I have no idea what you all are talking about with survivability issues as a shaman. They get instant healing surges and an earth elemental. I’ve never had an issue with survivability and I’m a mediocre player.
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Before switching classes, try frost spec. I find it has enough slows built into its abilities and it ends up giving the mage a lot of survivability in world content if you just kite a little.
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Vengeance Demon Hunter. Killing’s not overly fast, but very hard to die to anything short of a world raid boss. Back in legion I’d spend 5-10 minutes gnawing on some world raid bosses solo until random people showed up to help kill it the rest of the way. BFA the world raid bosses have a way of freezing you or flinging you a thousand yards and resetting. 
Other upshot is starting at level 98. Though starting zone has you gathiner havoc spec abilities and might kill you a bit before you get all your abilities and/or spec around to vengeance.
Bear/Moonkin is a resilient combination to play though too. I mained shaman on classic and agree shaman are a fun class in general. Demon Hunter moves a lot like batman or anime characters while fighting too though.