Shaman Tank - an idea whose time has come

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Continuing the discussion from Shaman Tank:

I was going to start a thread on this myself but I noticed this one which covered much of what I was interested in discussing, and it’s not that old.

I really like the theme and cultural significance of shamans; they remind me a bit of the wiccan philosophy of natural energies and forces (especially the invoking of the 5 classic elements - fire, earth, water, air and spirit). Parts of Wicca are more similar to the Druidic class (as in the Moon Goddess and the Horned God) but the elemental magic is very similar.

So a tank that used the elements of earth and fire, etc, would be very cool. We have leather wearing tanks and plate wearing tanks, the idea of an element-based mail wearing, shield bearing tank is certainly well past due.

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another tank won’t fix the tank population

and i simply would hate to see shaman tanks personally, druid 4th spec was only happened because of balancing issues of the feral tree. Don’t see them giving more classes 4 specs.

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I hadn’t even thought of a “tank population” problem when considering the idea. I simply liked the idea of a shaman tank as a playable class. I’ve tried various tank classes recently and haven’t really enjoy many of them. I found bears a bit boring, the DH tank was almost equally so, I don’t much like Death Knights at all and I couldn’t really get a personal grip on Warriors. Paladins weren’t too bad but that was about it for me. However I would certainly give shamans a try if they were designed around elemental magic.

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Water - Restoration
Fire - Elemental
Earth - Earthwarding
Air - Enhancement

Also bring back 2h Enhancement. I literally can’t even be the tauren shaman from the Vanilla cinematic anymore.

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Totally down for a shaman tank class.

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Enhancement was originally supposed to be a tankish kind of spec wasn’t it? I seem to remember Rockbiter weapon having a high threat/taunting quality to it.

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wtb old talent tree back, 5/5 improved blocking would solve this. :’)

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Yup. It didn’t really have any viable builds, but the fact is that it had a number of tanky talents.

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it did (and frost shock if memory serves) but they didn’t have any other viable tanking mechanics

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Blizzard has shown their ideas are not as welcomed as the player base.

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Oh, btw, OP – wrong version of ‘whose’ in the title. Who’s is a contraction of ‘who is’. Whose expresses ownership, so you’d want the latter.

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Thanks…Im usually very careful about that stuff but that one got by me.

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No worries, it happens. It’s a pretty common mistake to make. Downfall of English as a language is all of our stupid homophones.

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Cough Google translate cough

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Back in vanilla we ran dungeons with shamans tanking …

Back when you could ise creative builds rather than everyone using the exact same build like now.

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No changes to classes until microtransactions are gone please and make them never return. I don’t even know why I even bother, Blizzard won’t listen the community.

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Seriously? Way to inject a completely off-topic comment into a thread.:confounded:

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I would love to see WoW explore a ranged tank. It worked in SWToR (though in fairness … you just shoot at point blank range mostly).

Demonology could/should be tank spec … where you juggle defensives on pet + funnel + etc.

However the biggest problem is there just isn’t much for tanks to do outside of raids and dungeons…so most people gravitate away.

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I understand that you’re right but ugh. Why be this?!

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That’s blasphemy! Shaman tanks were always fun back in the day! :smiley:

Earthwarden spec with Rockbiter Weapon and Earthshield, maybe some totem abilities a bit like Monks and beef up the Earth Elemental for a tank only cooldown. It would be awesome! I’d actually tank if they made Shaman tanks.

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