I think the Shaman ability Thunderous Strike is way too much of a “forced” ability, pushing you to really depend on it from the get go when it unlocks. It also immediately takes the fun out of using a two handed guns, and also using pets.
The difference between not having that and dealing seemingly normal weapon damage and having a lighting strike proc every 3 secs versus having it and being able to cheese through whole groups of enemies for hundreds of damage at the start to the game is too much of a forced skill.
For instance if you want to use pets as a shaman, put all the points into them, then u get a ranged weapon and thunderous strike, you start to lay waste to entire enemy groups before your pet can even get to them, its a forced change of playstyle, like i am now playing some caster sitting back and constantly casting chained lightning. And i never like abilities that are must must haves, where its almost stupid not to use them. And this is definitely one of those. On top of the fact that you’re going to be looking at a huge annoying lightning strike animation thousands upon thousands of times every time you play, just adds to why i don’t like this skill.