Suggestion shaman tank and how it could be

Classes Shaman
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Was literaly thinking about this for okay years, also these time I’ve been thinking about this and made a draft about how it could become a reality!

Here is my first draft and here me out! this is a draft, basic mecanic that I think could work and make sens.

Spec name probably themed on earth:

  1. Earth warden
  2. Molten blast = do X AOE dmg (fire) & Apply flame shock to all affected target.
  3. Stone shield. bonus blocking chance by X% allow spell block, (possible active mitigation mecanic)
  4. Maelstrom weapon : consume to heal or active mitigation
  5. Earth ascendance (avatar/wing etc style version shaman tank)
  6. Stone wall : frontal damage absorb X% for a max of X dmg, damage targets in front for X% of the damage absorb split between targets, if spell/attack is block by Stone shield does not reduce max absorb.
  7. Mass taunt totem (old totem from vanilla but redestribute treath from totem to the tank.
  8. earth comunion : Redirect damage taken from a target to the tank for X% dmg or X% of max tank hp.

let me think what you guys think about this. not looking for flame or anything. but I’ve seen a lot asking for a sham tank but not many suggestion!

in my opinion lore wise its accurate to have it and also we are in a good state in thos 2 last expantions and will make sens to add this.

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I dig it. Get it. Because you…. dig… earth… :rock:

Anywho, I like the name Earth Warden.

Also, Rockbiter and maybe Earthspike would have to be worked in there somewhere too.

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One thing that I think doesn’t look realistic is having Maelstrom Weapon. This used to be a talent in the class tree but it has since been moved to be Enhancement-specific and spec-defining. However, Lightning Shield does generate Maelstrom when you’re hit so I could see the builder/spender system to be the same as Elemental - this would allow for the tank to scale with pack size or may encourage pulling big. I can picture that there would probably be talents to buff Lightning Shield for additional benefit.

I think it would be naive to believe that Earth Elemental wouldn’t be considered as something significant for a Tank’s kit; I often summon Dwayne “The Rock Ele” Johnson if things are looking questionable for the tank in AoE packs, giving him just enough time to recover. Maybe they’d bring back the Shadowlands effect that gives Dwayne a mobile Earthquake effect or maybe his health/defensives scale with the tank so he doesn’t just fall over in high keys.

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I really love the fantasy of an Earth-Warden described here, but I’m doubtful a new spec will be added anytime soon. I think a better approach would be to redesign a hero talent into an Earth-Focused Shaman:

Totemic → Earth Warden

Give enhance things like unleash doom from legion, lava lash becomes molten blast, etc. And for resto you can empower earth shield and earth totems.

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Make it so the earth ele is a passive pet for tanking, but you have a cooldown that merges the earth elemental into you for your big defensive/offensive ability - like meta but with earth elemental

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They wont do that. They do not want shaman to be a PET class which is why Feral Spirit had its stun and heal removed

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I miss the days of MoP when Fire Ele was 90% of my dmg and I was the pet.

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If they ever add Sham tank we better actually use our shield I don’t want any of that elemental bs.

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Plays shaman, doesn’t like elemental magic.

Something doesn’t add up here.

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LAVA BASH. Heck yes!

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I meant elementals as in ‘Earth/Storm’ Elemental summons not elemental magic period.

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Oh, you meant the pet suggestion. Yeah, I agree, that would be terrible.

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For tank if they do I would love to see 1 of 2 options. First is dw using earth and wind.
Second is sword and board and yes give shamans access to swords damnit I want to use thunderfury even if its just transmog. That weapon should have been Shamans only.

For tanking I think earth and wind would make a awesome combo. I remember back in the day for aoe we used to summon a small cyclone around our body and that did damage. Well think that but for defecting ranged spells and arrows that the wind was so fast that it physically/magically moved spells and arrows keeping them from hitting us.

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I miss the good ol days when SS stacked a nature damage debuff on our target and we used earth shock, lighting bolt or chain lighting to do a massive hit. I want earth shock back on Enhancement. I want the SS debuff to come back. I want that whole combo to come back

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DW would be cool but I think our shield is too iconic to ignore - we also got shield imbues for ele and resto… it would just makes sense if there was a tanking one too.

I’m guessing that the tank spec would have a ‘Voltaic Blaze’ mechanic where it could ‘Flame Shock’ several things at once; this would reset ‘Molten Blast’ like crazy (if it were designed the same way as SoD)… Brann kinda functions in this way w/ his shotgun.

IF we get a tank spec this expac, it’ll probably be announced either the week of May 5th or May 13th as a feature of the 11.1.7 patch. The timing is right, I’ll remain optimistic until that point. Fingers are crossed!

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What if the shield we imbue is our lighting shield/earthshield