Shaman Tank

[Brawlze-mugthol (Brawlze)]

any class can easily be made to fill any role. Warriors healing/supporting with shouts. Rogues tanking with evasion. Priests tanking with shields. Mages healing with time magic and tanking with magic barriers. The thing is, youre not choosing a warrior to heal, or a priest to tank. But, id wager a good number of people picking Shaman would like to play every role.

[Brawlze-mugthol (Brawlze)]

Lots of good ideas there Madalynn! If we’re going to be taken seriously, the shaman tanking spec needs to be cohesively integrated into the current class balance. I think that means in terms of design and niche gameplay.

For example, Blood is self healing. Brew requires a healer but can smooth inc dmg like no one else. Warrior will sit at full and if they start to dip, things are probably getting outta control. Paladins bring party utility and healing, while DHs are arguably the most mobile out of the bunch with a bit of everything. (Honestly DHs have an ability from every class it feels like…) How will a shaman tank fit with these classes?

We also need a name for the spec. I love Earth Warden and think this is what we should go with. Open to new ideas though!

Definitely a good idea to pick a niche/playstyle.

I could see switching weapon enhancements on your shield and 1hander to determine what you need at the moment. And depending of the combination between the two, effects what spells excel at the moment.

For sake of bloat, only two elements per weapon/shield.

Weapon: Fire-Passive aoe damage. Better resource generation

Weapon: Water-Healing Spells enhanced. Auto attacks passively heal

Shield: Earth-Damage Mitigation. No spell interruption

Shield: Air-Lightning/chain lightning do more damage. Earthquake causes static electricty to do more damage/threat

Also, depending on the combination of enhancements, you could gain access to, or enhance, one of your current spells. Having Water Main hand and Air Shield could cause your healing rain to turn into healing storm, AoE that heals allies and damages enemies.

To be able to switch between your enhancements, it only needs 1 button per slot. Switch your main hand to other enhancement. And switch you off hand to the other enhancement.

I think Shaman tanks could be really awesome. Any thoughts on this please share them. Even if you dont like it, that can spark insight as to how it could be great or improved.

[Thanen-the-scryers (Thanen)]

rogue evasion tank would be sweet.

[Gungarg-uldum]

Posting here before my sub ends, and I’m still hoping for Shaman tanks.

Blizzard needs to fix enhancement before they even think about putting in a tanking spec for us. Then they also need to fix how squishy we are in every aspect of the game

[Praxxis-moon-guard]

We’ll see warlock tanks again (which weren’t bad, btw, and fun as hell) before we see enhancement tanks.

[Gungarg-uldum]

We’ll see warlock tanks again (which weren’t bad, btw, and fun as hell) before we see enhancement tanks.

Enhancement should not be tank. If they give us a tank spec it should be a fourth spec

[anon27092983]

THEY CAN RIDE THEIR EARTH ELES. Your mounted beast will tank the instance

[Illumashocks-uldum]

Enhancement already has all the necessary properties to be the Shaman tank class granted we would need to change somethings around however realistically Enhancement Shamans are pretty much set up already to make that tank switch. I for one would love to see Blizzard do this however we all know that they wont. The main Developer at Blizzard that actually cared about Shamans has gone into retirement and will not come back.

No they need to leave enhancement as melee dps. If they give us a tank spec it should be a 4th spec. But as said above they are having so much balancing issues that they need to fix the other specs before trying to make us a another tank class

[Xazaloa-daggerspine]

Posting here before my sub ends, and I’m still hoping for Shaman tanks.

still waiting for it myself.