Great news! You soon will be able to be to play a shaman tank! When classic drops…
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That was a warrior. It looks exactly like all the warriors from WC3.
Good lord there are so many wrong points with this post.
Excuse me, do you play a mage? Last I checked ME and well, my other mage friends don’t stay in one spec, they switch depending on the content because as a good mage you know when which spec is needed.
Fetid Devourer? Frost for the cleave.
Taloc? Arcane is a good choice.
Feel like you need a bit of both? Fire is the answer.
The three of them are as useful as each other, they provide unique utility, now the numbers are definitely off, but that is Blizzard’s issue not the class itself.
Because if you want to keep progressing, you are meant to do Mythic 0s? That drop 340 gear?.
You do know that to wear crafted gear you need to own the profession? Also you need Breath of Bwonsamdi for actual high level gear, but that you get from raiding. Which means you will not only be around that level of gear since you raid a lot, but that you also have the restriction of needing the profession up to a higher level to wear it.
Get info before posting plz
Vanilla 2h WF crits <3
Arathi and Darkshore quest reward 340 automatically invalidating any of the random chance of warforged 335 Heroic stuff you get and you can enter at 320. So yes heroics are invalidated after 320.
Not even going to mention the Assault gear, world boss gear or pvp gear that makes Heroics pointless. Heroics only cover an ilvl range from 310 to 320 and that is it which is just a ridiculous decision if you consider how much time was burned creating these things.
This tells me current dungeons are created mostly for the Mythic crowd. Back on the OP’s topic though I think other classes need to be able to do stuff. Frost option to spec into tanking is not exactly a hard idea to figure out how it would work.
If I remember correctly way back when their were bosses you would use Rogues on. We obviously have a Monk class now so saying it is a gear issue is not really all that valid. That used to be the old excuse.
Not to poopoo your thread, but there are a few things to consider. These are based on my experience, nothing more.
One, adding a tank to the list won’t make people want to tank. It can be a thankless job and the community fostered this stigma, so adding the choices for even more won’t fix it in the long run.
Two, they need to address existing spec issues before breaking yet another group apart or adding a fourth spec. It is pretty obvious they are already stretched thin the way things have gone since the last expansion and personally I don’t want them making even less content right now.
Three, they plan what is going to be the next focus over the course of the expansion and right now anything dealing with elements is far from the focus. I lean more towards them making some god awful tinker class if what is happening now is anything to go off of. In time this might be an idea, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for an expansion or two before it sees the light of day.
Uh, yeah that is the point.
Which believe me it’s bullsh!t, but this doesn’t contribute to the discussion nor justifies your point?.
Er… RNG shouldn’t be why you do Heroic dungeons.
Well, yeah I support you here, they are giving too much free effortless gear, but then again you are evading all my points and not providing counterarguments.
Any Rogue or Monk mains that can tell me if this is true or not?
It would be massively stupid, we are an AoE based burst spec, not a tanking spec. Hell we are not a tanking class.
How would you like it if I made opinions on your Paladin class that were completely baseless and tried to justify them? I know nothing about your class and judging by your posts you know nothing of mine.
Also adding more Tank specs isn’t gonna fix this, people don’t tank because it’s a hard job and the community has a standard of the tank having to be perfect with pulls and guiding the rest through the dungeon, if anything this has more to deal with the stress left on tanks
Speak for yourself, i’d tank. We definitely need a Shaman Tank, It practically writes itself. Fire keeping the bosses at bay, earth to block really hard hits. Think of it sort of like Earth Benders.
Lightning crash for an aoe stun.
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Key word ‘‘need’’, why do you think we need Shaman Tanks
Why do people NEED high elves?
Uh… what?
I am not in favor of High Elves, in fact I never bothered going there cuz it’s a stupid request.
But can you answer my question please?
Throw down totems and it creates a barrier and maintains threat. Could be like consecrate for Shamans. Whenever I talk to a Shaman they just sound depressed right now.
Like i said, the story and abilities write themselves. It’s such an obvious thing idk why it hasnt been in game. Lack of vision i supopose.
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I’ve never heard of any Shaman using shields or stuff to protect others. (In the same way a Paladin would ex)
Sure the Earth provides coverage, but you have that with the Earthen Wall Totem.
I mean, what would be the real point besides ‘‘cuz story and stuff’’, do we really need resources put into developing a new spec for this class?
Restoration is an underwhelming healer class and Elemental is for DPS too. They both need to work with the class first before adding another spec.
Not like they are gonna do it since they are already adding the Tinker class, and I doubt they will introduce more stuff like it
Previously back when I left in Wrath the excuses were as follows:
- It would be abused in pvp…trees have been removed and so has pvp resilience gear
- They do not wear plate or have a special form like druids…yes this was an actual excuse
- We have enough tank classes…reminder DK had just been introduced and were utterly facerolling the content
- They cannot balance the current tanks so why add another…it has been 14 years
- The set bonuses would be abused in pve…set bonuses have been destroyed by Blizzard
- It does not fit with the lore…well that has been thrown out of the window and retconned to death
Literally every single reason someone had why classes like MAGE!! or Shaman could not have a tank spec have been vaporized over the years.
Interesting suggestion.
But I am thinking more along the line of new Mail Class with Tank spec. Cuz right now there is an imbalance of armor types.
3 x cloth = priest, mage, warlock
4? x leather = rogue, druid, monk, demon hunter
3 x plate = warrior, paladin, death knight
but only 2 x mail = hunter, shaman
So, I think it’s about time to introduce a brand new mail class, possibly with tanking spec.
Dual Sword wielding like Samurai type maybe? or a Jedi Knight?
You’d have to rewrite new spells obviously. Can’t use existing abilities to make it happen.
They do that all the time anyways. Could coincide the new tank release with Thralls return (if Chris Metzens feeling ok).
The players have done a fine job of developing its fantasy spec. Theres a few write ups out there that obviosly would need to be tuned+brought back in line with other tanks cus players are not the best at balance.
Elemental is pure fire for DPS right now. I do Ele and its amazing. Shamans always need work, thats not lie.
All Blizzard would have to do to make a fourth spec work is add back in the mound of abilities and spells they have been pruning from classes since MoP.
i mean im down for a new mail class but not a samurai thing.
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HOw about Samurai Pizza Cat then?
Aren’t they darn cute?