Shaman will NEVER get a tank spec

Classes Shaman
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Look. We get it. A Shaman Tanking spec sounds awesome. It will never happen.

Why, you might ask?

Because if Shaman could tank, there would be absolutely no reason to play a Druid. Shaman already have a better melee spec, a better DPS caster spec, and a better healing spec. If you guys could also tank, it would be fun, exciting, flashy, and not boring. It would be too much. The Awesome would get so concentrated into a single class the only non Shaman players would all be Hunters and Ret Paladins.

Sorry to have to be so blunt about it. It would be too much.

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Firstly, we don’t need that kind of negativity around these parts pal.

Secondly, druids are tied for 1st place for most popular class, and I highly doubt it’s because of bear form.

Thirdly, shaman tank makes the most sense of becoming a tank out of all the current classes that don’t have a tank spec.

Fourth, people have been asking for shaman tanks since forever. It would make a large number of shaman players extremely happy.

Wow can always use more tanks.

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It was entirely positivititty I promise you.

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Gonna bookmark this thread for when shaman eventually get a tank spec :wink:.

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Funny, I can’t recall the last time I saw a Druid tank, yet I’ve seen plenty of Druids. Kind of breaks your point.

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That’s very fair. I’d love a tank spec, but yeah, it’d be weird to just like, be the best at everything.

But still I’d love that tank spec tho.

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LOL - Flagged because a tongue in cheek post about how much fun Shaman being able to tank would be got declared as Trolling. Nobody was trolling anything. People suck.

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I hope they don’t
They’ve been historically bad with balancing Shamans I don’t want a 4th spec for them to ungabunga mindlessly.

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Tank spec or not, balancing problems will always exist. Since that’s the case, why not give players new classes/specs? Else, we’d never get anything new.

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Because the only class they want to have 4 specs is the only class they care about Druid.

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Hey now, we’ll still need mages too. Being a resto shaman is thirsty work.

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Just an fyi, that wasn’t me. I could tell you were laying praise on shamans. We are the superior class. I preferred when hardly anyone played them, I’d rather they never be fotm to keep it a good class.

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I agree with this - one of the reasons I started playing Shaman so many years ago was because nobody played them because people thought they sucked. I’m a bit biased but I do agree with OP that Shamans are one of the more satisfying and flashier classes that exist and a tank spec would immediately draw a solid initial interest. Save the date for 11.1.7 - I think this is the most likely time for Blizz to release the spec if it happens.

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I didn’t figure it was. It was just some random person who got triggered by the title, which, honestly was just clickbait. Shaman are my ole reliable. I love the class and theme. They’re always fun, even when bad. I don’t try to push elite content, so it never matters to me if they’re the meta-fomo-apex class or whatever the hip new term is this decade.

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**Cries in bear