What if you are empowered by the earth elementals and basically turn into the thing from the fantastic 4.
Or what if?! Now this is crazy, but what if the Earth Warden doesn’t “tank” but uses totems to empower those in the group so they can tank/avoid more dmg?! This will never happen.
I love everything about the shaman except that it can’t tank. I can only play a class that can tank. If Shamans get the ability to tank than I’ll forget be a shaman.
I really like the idea of interesting new tanks (Shaman, Warlock, Hunter). Heck Rift has Mage and Rogue tanks, and Warrior healers… for real!
But I sadly think it is irrelevant. New roles for existing classes is very unlikely as it won’t drive sales. A new race/class drives sales, so that’s your best bet - a totally new tank class… like Tinker. Which I do think is coming (Taliesan did a great breakdown on this - thx Bofur for reminding me to cite him).
I agree. Taliesan makes a really good argument on it.
I want warlock tanks back.
I would like this because they appear to have ruined the enhancement shaman.
Took mine out to get him through Draenor finally was shocked how foreign everything felt.
Oh 8.1 patch really, really helped. I think you will see plenty of warrior tanks now.
I agree that it wouldn’t solve the tank issue but it would make it a more fun experience but I guess this late into the game it would be a nightmare to balance. Then again a game like Rift never had the problem or daoc(which had far more classes than wow will ever have). Personally I think every class should have a tank/heal spec.
Because Rift decided to forget balancing and instead provide choices and variety. You only get 5 base classes, but then you pick 3 talent trees out of…I think 7…depending on how you want to play. It’s a shame it went down hill so fast, it’s really an interesting game with a lot of good systems. I still play occasionally.
Allow a Mage Tank and I bet it would help. Multiple MMO’s have done this and it is not a hard concept. I doubt very many people can even name the 3rd spec for mages out of Pyro or Frost.
I want a shaman tank spec SO BAD!!! Please give shaman’s a 4th spec? <3
edit: Plus we have 3 leather tanks and no mail wearing tanks…
You barely have Lava Burst and Flame Shock as fire spells, most is based around Thunder. Not counting the Ascendance tho.
Again, the only wind related spell you have is… oops it’s no longer in the game, Windfury is the closest one (and it’s a passive). The rest are elemental enhancements to your weapons.
Then what is the point of it being ranged?
If I recall correctly spellcaster tanks were used in niche parts of vanilla and TBC, specifically mages and locks.
Bruh.
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They never really did anything with it. Always cried that tanks are hard to balance and they did not want the trouble. Well this is the inevitable result of being lazy for so many years.
They just gave up and pruned off abilities left and right without adding anything new to the classes. Trust me if Zandalari who are voodoo death god worshipers can be Paladins there is literally no reason Blizzard cannot try out a Shaman or Mage tank concept.
It is long overdue that they mix up class design instead of stripping them down one expansion after another. All I know is my queue time on any of my tanks is under 3 seconds which tells me they have a serious problem.
Adding another tank won’t do anything. The tank experience is why it’s like this. People don’t wanna deal with the headache.
Mages are fragile af, even lore states they use shields to give themselves a bit more protection.
Don’t bring what that other MMO did here, cuz as you can see it didn’t work very well.
Shamans however do have more of a possiblity but I doubt it will get implemented
Tell that to Jaina in Seige of Dazar’alor
Raid bosses are stupid.
You have Kael’thas for example, it took a raid to down him but then you kill him in a dungeon.
Or Illidan that for some reason took a sh!tton of adventurers to kill according to his book but for some reason during Legion he seemed weaker than the PC (and the artifact is not enough justification)
I am sorry but when you have all the mages running around right now in one spec the solution is not to keep playing ring around the rosey with FOTM for the expansion.
The solution is to change up what the 3rd spec is capable of and make it more useful in a raid/dungeon setting. Obvious issue with queue times right now is how gear effectively makes them useless.
Once you hit 320ilvl Heroics are pointless. They do not drop anything relevant to a higher level player. This problem is going to be temporarily solved at the start of this patch as people farm Profession mats to craft high level gear but it will increase again after a week.