Because that is how they are designed for really in Classic before SoD. Most mail gear in the game are in fact agility gear. Aside from also layering it with Stoneskin Totem and Healing Stream Totem.
Lolno. No.
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Shamans tank by eliminating incoming damage with 2H windfury procs
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How are they dodge based when they also have armor, shield block, parry, and finally dodge talents? Clearly you should be utilizing all 4. Leave the dodging for classes without shields.
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If you want to dodge between crushing blows, bully for you. I’d rather use a shield and avoid that unpleasantness.
rogue should be dodge tanks + shamans to tank
Lol most mail gear is agi plus stam bc after llv 45ish blizz was like ok either heal or elemental. But at lvl 40 with Sm gear and shield from sm cath shaman is very tankie
Feels like they should be parry tanks, and have runes that give them haste and mana regen after getting parry. So you could tank 1h/shield or 2h. As they are currently though seems fine too
They should have a rock shield that reduces damage taken
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Tell me more about the gear drops in SoD that nobody has really seen yet.
What if shaman tank spec was really just the windfury crits we made along the way?
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Should be magic damage tank
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If I imagine a shaman tank in my head.
I think of a shield of rocks circling around, reducing damage taken, like bone shield.
I think of stoneclaw totem casting aoe taunt on the shaman
I imagine dual wielding and proccing instant cast spells for threat
Also, how’s earth shock gonna work as a taunt? Isn’t that the highest threat shock, wouldn’t that have been the threat builder instead? They can’t spam it, or taunt immune happens
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I’m not sure what your objection actually is. Shaman tanks ARE going to be dodge tanks, more or less. They’ll have less dodge than rogue and druid tanks, but probably quite a bit more dodge than paladins, warriors, and warlocks.
The rune says SHIELD MASTERY RUNE…not Dodge Mastery Rune
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Windwall totem is never used and should have mechanics built around it or retool it’s function for tanking mitigation.
but that doesn’t make you a master of the shield compare to warrior that have shield block. It’s only nice for offtanking packs because 3-4 targets are needed for decent proc rate (especially to keep up some mana)
This will probably get better next phase because we’ll have access to parry, but right now you only pick a shaman tank if you can’t wait for a real tank
A simple trick could be to give shield mastery some scaling on strength giving block chance (pretty much like agi/dodge)
I agree like earth shield but for tanking. So far I’m digging the shaman tank tbh. It’s pretty good has some flaws but we will see how it translates further into the game at higher lvls. Has potential but they need to change the shield mechanic imo.
It takes to long to ramp dmg mitigation imo we need more block or less stacks to get to max. Also mana regen would be way better if we blocked more or even if they changed water shield to be able to be used by all specs.
Regarding OP I disagree we should be block focused using earth or fire magic. And gain dodge from agility but not focus around dodging.