Again, you keep projecting what you’re doing onto me. If you are reading wrath guides, fine, some people need it. It is not bad to admit it. What is bad is to think that you as a shaman can tank and be mad that people don’t like the idea.
Worse than that, malding on forums because others disagree with you.
What is even worse, is name calling others that don’t want to enable your delusions in a 17 year old game.
Well, this thread was created by another shaman that though he could be a tank.
I guess the hat fits perfectly for you, even though you are desperate to picture otherwise.
Well I mean you watch a shaman tanking and say they’re not tanking, is it ableist to state that clearly there’s some form of intellectual disability stopping you from admitting reality?
No I don’t think it is
Actually it’s because of my concern for you that I have to insist that you take your medication and get off the internet so nobody can hurt you
Oh I understand your need to define Tanking so broadly and abysmally low that a hunter pet receiving a single melee swing “tanked” and now “is a tank” but 99.9% of the rest of WoW knows better.
If anyone knows the general vicinity that Fascist lives, please notify the authorities of his paranoid delusional activity on the internet as I’m sure they’d be happy to pick him up early for harm minimisation purposes
Actually in vanilla you can see that the designers really wanted shamans and Paladins to both have an tanking build and to be able to tank normal dungeons on the way up. When TBC rolled around it’s as if this idea got lost because now both sides had Paladins and Shamans. But what they forgot was that lots of people liked that role on shaman and played it.
Never understood why they couldn’t see that just because we horde had Paladins us shaman that played that role enjoyed it. It would have only taken a couple small tweaks to be 100% viable and still different enough from Paladins. Now through homogenization all the original tanks feel about the same and the possibility of shaman tanking has become a thing of history. I truly miss playing by shankidin and the DPS I could display while still being able to tank through a few mechanics.
Now it feels as if blizzard has given up on almost any classes playing differently and any originality that could be achieved. A friend of mine mine did Beast Master tanking for the longest time. He used his skills and engineering to make himself viable but it worked. Those little stupid threat spring loaded boxes. Was fun.
Oh well thanks for reminding me of when WoW had real character and interesting design.
Even during original Vanilla, next to no one played Shaman to Tank anything and the general idea, based on the game limitations itself, was that once you hit lvl40 content and above, Shaman were entirely phased out of Tanking for the simple reason of Armor.
Paladins and Warriors upgraded from Mail to Plate.
Druids went from Bear to Dire Bear, which made their Leather gear go from Mail to Plate+ equivalent.
Shaman got the same Armor upgrade as Hunters, simply moving up from Leather to Mail, none of which was viable for Tanking in the hands of either class.
This lie gets perpetuated all the time and it is such a silly one. Vanilla Shaman needed an entire overhaul of Enhancement and gear availability to become viable.
The target dummies? So your friend “tanked” without actually Tanking, but rather kited a lot using his pet, traps, and Engineering toys to keep them off of him. That’s called Kiting, not Tanking.