NEW! Shaman Tank Spec: Earthguard / Earthguardian!

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With the new DF patch we will see how our heroes learn new abilities! Behold the Earthguardian, new shaman tank spec! New spells and talents to learn!

Earthen Ring: Raplace your earthshield talent. Your skin now becomes a truly rock armor, decrease the damage you recive in 30% and your armor by 3500p for 30 secs. 2 min cooldown.

Cataclysm: Sacrifice an elemental to obtain this powers by 30 secs:
Fire elemental: Primal Strike now becomes a useful spell that destroy your enemy with a magma punch doing 32600p of physical damage always a critical strike if your target is affected by flameshock 12 secs cooldown.
Earth Elemental: Now your Earthquake have no maelstrom cost, but now is an aura that only suround you doing 990p each 6 secs to all enemies within 10 yards.

New talent point available!
Lighning Punch: Your Chain Lightning and Lighningbolt, becomes melee attacks: doing the same damage but now consume maelstrom, have no mana cost and have no time cast, 10 yd range.

Zapquake: Your Earthshock have 3% of chace to stun your target if you have Lightning Shield activated.

Flood: Healing surge now is instant but destroy your Healing Stream totem.

Pursuit: Melee attack generate great threat, causing 14500p of earth damage, if your Earthshield shield is activated also heals you for 7200p. 6 secs cooldown.

Ironhide: Your Astral Shift, now is an passive spell but reduce the damage taking by 15%

Waterfall: If Healing Stream Totem, fades or is destroyed now automaticaly drops another in the same place.

Thundering: Enchant your shield with the power of thunder, decrease the damage that you recive by 5% and increase your nature spell damage by 10%

I have more ideas but this can take long…

Because shamans have shield for a f… reason.

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It’s been like 18 years of no, come on now

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Shaman could definitely move into a quad-spec like Druids, but I feel if they hadn’t done it with green jesus being around, they aren’t likely to do it now. :frowning:

Not to mention Demon Hunters would lose their minds having only 2 specs <_<;

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I hate druids for some reason they are the favorite class for blizzard, always have good talent trees and copy every talent from another classes but better.

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I hope they do it at some point. An Earthward Shaman would be a great tank spec.

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each good idea for Blizzard is like: meh, you think you want it but you don’t :wink:

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Definitely all for an earth based shaman tank spec. I mean water is resto, enhancement is air and elemental is fire. only element missing here is earth. so yeah tank spec.

Not sure about all these ideas though. but I think you’re in the right direction.

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Warlocks would be up in arms if shaman got a tank spec. They’ve been asking for it just as long.

Then DHs would cry and moan over warlocks getting a tank spec. Who would want to play the 2 button “hero” if you could be a warlock tank?

Rogues will chime in and say something about bucklers and how they were supposed to be tanks in alpha.

It’s a thing. Best to leave it alone.

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Eh, you’re wrong. The only thing missing is Blizzard having a Heart to summon Captain Elemental.

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Getting strong “Wall of No” vibes here…we all know how that turned out…

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Every rule has an exception

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I want a shaman tank spec because it will be a SHANK and I like that.

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I will have a shot of whatever liquid hope he is drinking.

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Love this idea, but more specs to balance would be just hell. The thing about evoker is what something entirely new with a new method of gameplay mechanics. Also probably a marketing tactic? I don’t know though. Love your enthusiasm though

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No Mail tank yet, you tell me if that isnt something new. Why not something like Jojos, with the element tanking in the back ofthe shaman? That would be cool. An elemental armor.

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There’s certainly some cool stuff they could do with it. Hopefully we see something in the future.

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Hunter healing spec featuring the emotional support t-rex!

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How about fixing Druid tanks before adding more tank specs to the game.

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omg druids are the most favorite class of blizzard to make fix, reskins and other things, they are so broken in all spec, even i remember in bfa they change the bear style combat because was not realistic like a real bear, i mean whaaaaaaaat??? you spend resources in that? really blizzard? I just want a reskin from my ghostwolf, just fire wolf pleaseee!

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SHaman’s should move to a 4 spec class like Druids. For 1 it would mean there’s a Leather version and a Mail 4 spec class. Plus DH need a 3rd spec maybe some sort of ‘melee’ healer that sues Fel Energy to heal.