I disagree. This topic has been beat to death for 15 years now. The people who want this are the people who play shaman as alts. (Absolutely nothing wrong with this, I too love playing my alts as a break/something fun and fresh) But I think the people who main shaman for multiple expansions just want the shaman class dev team to actually show the class some love, fix the magnitude of problems with enhance, bring back useful totems and utilities, and give us back a lot of the things that made shaman unique.
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Iāve played resto/ele since MoP and will have to say that they are both fine as they are.
I also would love a 4th tank spec.
As long as you dont touch Enhancement. I know Enh has done about par damage with tanks this expansion, but thats not our fault. Let me be the elementalist enhancing warrior Chris Metzen intended me to be. Give me my party buffing totems back. Let me wield big meaty two handers and windfury fools for big hits again. Make strength my primary stat again, like it was in Vanilla and BC.
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Ya gosh darn necro commandos just really really want this tank spec when they canāt even make enhancement survivable in pvp.
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Bringing a tank spec into the fold would be fun to try, but from what i see on PTR, it is not gonna happen. And i will agree that enhancement and elemental need some major work and Blizz need to fix our 2h weapon use. I would rather run around with a 2h weapon than two 1h.
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Wrong, Iāve been a shaman main since Vanilla and have wanted this. Off tanking used to be in our character description on the blizzard website.
Right, this is true. Show them the love.
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I am beginning to understand that the term āmaining x since yā dies not mean anything close to what it use to mean.
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Now that shamans are in a decent place, can we talk about Earth Wardens again??? Love and miss you guys. Too busy playing prot palā¦ let me tank on my shaman!
As much fun as a tank shaman would be in my opinion the Blizz teamās are ever going to do it we are just the ppl who pay and play the game all the time so why should they do anything we ask for!!
Iāve seen this idea pop up for years and years. While I love the idea, Blizzard will never put that much effort into base classes; they havenāt even added another talent row inā¦a decade or somethingā¦uhg.
I love the idea of an āEarth Wardenā! I think itād be kinda neat to see a 2h wielding shaman tank. Folks have been asking for both a shaman tank and a 2h enh build for ages, so why not do both at once? (Not to mention that I would really appreciate the mitigation ability that, in my fantasy at least, becomes baselineā¦)
This sounds like a great idea. I love that shamans use shields but ā¦ kind of sad thereās no spec that actually ā¦ you know ā¦ uses them.
I would probably never play another class again because it would be perfection in my ideal class fantasy.
Keep this thread bumped, maybe one day Blizzard will do something outside of their comfort box. Lets hope we get it in 10.0 
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Letās get some ideas rolling about how we can incentivize Blizz to actually do this apart from posting forum posts about it xD
Personally, I think a kickstarter could be effective. Blizz loves their monies so we raise some cash, show them that weāre serious and give it to them and say make it lolā¦
I still donāt understand how a Demon Hunter and Monk, wearing LEATHER, can facetank some of the toughest NPCs in the game. But a Shaman wearing mail, who is geared for melee combat, could not possibly ever learn to do the same thing
If anything Shaman is such an inconsistent class, expansion-in and expansion-out, I think it NEEDS a tank spec. Would bring more people to the class, more tanks is always good for the game. Sure ābalanceā could be an issue, but itās not as difficult to balance tank specs. As long as they all get the job done and the DPS difference isnāt huge, nobody is gonna complain
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This honestly needs to exist. The toolkit and lore practically already exist, and seems to require a minor bit of effort from developers for implementation.
Earth and Spirits are vastly underused for Shaman as it stands.
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Shaman tank using the earth element is the most sensible content to be added in 10.0
What about earth and water. Ohhh give a spell called mud pit to act as a slowing ability
shaman tanking in classic was terrible is was as good as prot paladin tanking which was terrible.they have to give shaman some taunt abilities because paladin has a prot spec.
shamans tanking is bad and never should have existed.
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I get the impression this goes for a lot more than just shamans or even classes, sadly. The game in general feels lost and hollow.
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