Just tanked RFD because we couldn’t find anyone, used rockbiter and earth shock, and since I had the ravager from SM armory with crusader it actually worked well, which got me to thinking, shamans are supposed to be the horde opposite of pallies, who can heal tank or dps. So why didn’t blizz give us an actual taunt, to go along with the increased threat abilities?
Was it a last minute choice to not add it, or were they going to and didn’t have time before release, then figured whatever we’ll just keep things the way they are. It seems like shamans were setup to be 3 role hybrids.
The enhance tree has like 3 different talents you can put points into to increase defensive stats. 5 into armor, 5 into dodge, and one to add parry chance. Hell, one to even increase block chance with a shield.
I’m just sayin… We wear plate, with way more prot specific talents than sham counterpart, and yet we still don’t have taunt. If they could let that pass, probably someone wearing mail might not be the first on their list to give a taunt to.
With that said, I really don’t know what their intention was for Shaman tanking. I know they could sometimes be an off tank, but by no means would someone wearing mail, be an actual tank.
And despite all of that, your EH is still dramatically lower than all three of the Tanks. Don’t let it get to you, but Blizzard really sorta threw things together just… however… and some things scaled exceptionally well (Feral Bears) and some things not at all (Enhance “Tanks” and Feral Cats).
**if you don’t get resists
Earth Shock is fantastic threat generation and with Reverberation, having it every 5 seconds is amazing… buuuuuut you’re subject the Spell Cast Hit Table, not the Melee Hit Table, so it becomes a lot less reliable and takes your overall TPS down a notch.
At level 40 with a sheild and full mail gear I had 49 percent dmg reduction, that’s with a talent build I tried out using the extra armor talents, and with totem that put me over 50 percent. Not sure how the gear scales at 60 but prior to 40 before wearing plate warriors had about that same damage reduction with mail and a sheild and tanked just fine, but they had a taunt/way to keep aggro from multiple mobs at once.
I think part of the problem is our magma totem gets killed quickly when used. If it didn’t generate threat it would be like a pallies consecrcration and threat would be maintained throughout the fight.
