Class design and raid spots (src)
Class design isn't done. We are shooting for more parity. Nobody should get a raid spot because their one talent brings a huge dps (or mana or healing or health) benefit to the raid that no other spec can provide.
so no more uniqueness from a single class that is why they removed the only reason ret paladins were allow to raid :S
In a future build your Stoneclaw Totem will "protect" your other totems, virtually increasing their HP by a value. We haven't decided how much it will give your totems, but it should be enough to protect them from being one shotted. Totems are intended to be as fragile as they are, it's what balances out their power. If we gave Totems base increased survivability, we would have to give them increased cooldowns, mana costs etc.
Heh, I doubt they'll increase the health by 1000 which is what they'd need to not to get 1-shotted by half the classes just at 70, let alone 80.