Yea, it seems like a lot of abilities that I listed but I was just trying to give equivalents for things that other tanks have.
Like the tunnel ability is equivalent to charge, Stoneskin is a generic defensive cooldown, stoneclaw is your typical spammable cleave for aoe threat, stonewall is akin to bone shield or ironfur, boulder is a standard kick/interrupt, etc.
Yea, mail would be fine for tanking when you consider druids, demon hunters, and monks all tank in leather.
Also, shamans use shields (and weâre sorely lacking shield-using tanks right now, only warriors and paladins use them for tanking).
They arenât going to add a 4th spec to shaman.
I donât want to lose enh or ele.
My vote is no.
If the suggestions are based on things all tanks already have, then whats the point?
Its bringing nothing new to the table.
It means there would be another level of skill and knowledge required to play the spec and of itâs fun to play people would take the time to learn it. I feel we should already have a healer based heal spec as well. Itâs not hard at all to press Ctrl 3 and left click to move a pet.
Shaman having a tank spec would be cool, if Druid has 4 specs, i donât see why not.
I see no reason there cant be a fourth spec.
My Shaman has a shield for Resto and a hammer for Enhancement. Theoretically I should be able to tank like a Pally.
Itâs nice to think about though.
I wouldnât want Enhancement to be replaced, but a 4th spec added. Could also explore the dark shaman necromancy abilities.
Blizzard said no, we already have enough tank classes, every class doesnât need to tank, Blizzard said not going to happen ever, if you want to play tank play one of those classes that are tanks, this subject is a dead horse thatâs been beaten so much that it makes high elves look like theyâve hardly been mentioned and also there is only pieces left of the dead horse now. etc etc etc etc etc. Also, btw Blizzard already said no to this.
I can probably spend the next half hour righting out reasons that you already know and have heard.
If you donât mind, when did Blizzard say this? Iâve been around for a while and not once did I hear about this.
There are at least 2 High Elf threads always on the front page of GD, while Shaman tanking never comes up. I hopped over to the Shaman forum to see, and while they are talking about it, I donât see anyone complaining about âso many sham tank threadsâ like they do High Elves.
Then do it, and provide sources please, if youâre that adamant.
Ah, so you want me to spend a half-hour telling why and then sources for my opinion? That just means youâre bull-headed and you donât really want an opposing opinion. Also, it would not change the outcome of this conversation because you seem to pretend that you do not know this subject is one thatâs very old and often spoken of.
Here is one from 2010 I would guess there are others out there, but as I said this is quite the dead horse. Also, I have places to be today instead of spending more time wasted on a subject that those like yourself will continue to troll about till they shut down the game it seems.
Shaman tanking in 5-man?
This is a sticky sort of subject. There is a certain level of expectation that people have when it comes to tanking as weâve all seen and experienced in game. If changes were made to allow shaman the ability to tank some things but not others, they could easily get labeled as âbad tanksâ and no one would want to use them (or play them) at all in this capacity. While for some people, being a âtemporaryâ tank in the lower end 5s might be intriguing, it may not be so for most people and might end up being a very little used spec for the class. It may even end up being more frustrating for some who find themselves wanting to get into the upper end dungeons and raids in this capacity only to find themselves coming up short.So you could say, yes, we could find a way to make this work, but the ultimate question is, would it be worth doing so and what would be the end result? I donât want to crush your hopes but, at this point, this sort of change seems very unlikely and wouldnât have the sort of payoff that you would like to come out of it. ([ Source ](https: //blue.mmo-champion .com/26/22048402883-shamanâmay-we-tank-5-mans-please.html))
You will have to take out the spaces to fo to the link yourself.
Well, nobody really wants and opposing opinion, but Iâd like to hear it regardless. And no, I didnât know about it. Iâve posted about shaman tanking many times and this is the first time Iâve heard of Blizzard having a stance on it.
What did I do to you to warrant you being so rude?
I suggest Gardener as a new spec
They will always have a place in our Garrison herb farm. 
A 4th spec has never been added to any class. Any time a new spec has been added, it replaced an existing spec.
It was done for druids.
No it wasnât.
That was splitting what was already there. Feral and Bear were already available options, under a single spec. They were not new specs created out of thin air at the time.
It would be like if tanking shaman was already an option, just under enhancement. So they split it apart for balancing reasons.
Huge difference.
Now in context.
Not pointed specifically at you
But I did find this clearly being obtuse since you want sources for my opinion, which is absurd to have to prove to you why I have an opinion, which puts you in the troll section IMO.
You said that Blizzard said no, that it was over-suggested, and that it was a bad idea. All three of those are provable things, even if the latter is more opinion than anything. Sorry if I came off as obtuse, but your initial post did as well.
Technically shaman tanking WAS an option back in vanilla/tbc. Earth shock and Rockbiter both generated high threat and shamans had numerous talents typically only found in tanking class trees.