Earth Shaman with mainly earth armor enhancing abilities make a good shaman-related tank spec. So shaman could join the crew of having all 3 roles available.
Earth armor grants def,
Earth Shatter normal aoe,
Soil Throw makes enemies miss,
Slime rain,
Tear Roots,
etc. etc.
Was and still is a perfect fit
Ewwwwwwww 
Gw2 did it first.
Yes why not maybe add 2 handers back too
night elf shaman tank!
Problem is shields don’t give agility.
Really Blizzard should just remove primary stat from shields, balance prot tanks around it, and incentivize caster shamans and holy paladin to use off hands/two handed weapons instead.
They can to patch shields to posses agi as well. Les work than changing two specs.
I just think it’s dumb that caster shamans use shields while enhancement shamans don’t. I know immersion means little to most people these days but it really bothers me when playing shaman.
Couldn’t it be possible to make tank shaman scale from str instead?
Or use two hander and let the “shield” just be earth spells.
While I do support more off-hand/two-hand support for certain specs like Holy (which is btw already playable without issues with intellect 2-hands), I see no reason at all to make shields useless in WoW.
And what? Put strength on all mail items?
Like I said my suggestion was mainly to fix the shaman class fantasy, if you have a better suggestion in that regard I’m all ears.
Ok, even dumber idea.
Ranged weapons!
So that we have more classes using those <.<
As others did suggest, just add Agility to the stat pool of shields.
My suggestion would be to just introduce lightweight-versions of shields with different stats that fit for less tanky classes like Shaman. But just adding relevant stats is surely the way to go.
Though adding more shields could give the devs an excuse to dilute the loot table even more…
tank shaman could be made from int. It is more of a earth summoning than to actually use strength in it. The earth has strength, you only have to control it as shaman with your elemental powers
I think your idea is dumber.
There is people Who like casting with a SHIELD, stop teasing other people
Yeah but not for this one.
This would be like a bear druid.
Handles staff, casts earth, changes his form because the earth/rocks will change how the shaman looks on its skin. It wont be a warrior.
Or perhaps give a 3rd spec to the only 2 spec class in the game before we start adding 4th specs to others.
Even Evokers got a 3rd spec half an xpac in. I know DH’s have been asking for a while now.
it isnt like this has to be “balanced”. A fourth shaman spec based on earth, which is most probably a tank, is way deeper into the lore than to get something out of DH just to get a spec.
For the shaman you dont force a spec onto it, the spec naturally evolved due to the earth nature and earth connection of shamans. For DH you have to develop something artificially to justify a new spec.
Could even be a healer, based on shattered souls, where every positive thing also comes with a negative effect, like shadow mend.
anyway, to open up the DH “balancing” because of a topic about a new addition which has way more backup in the warcraft lore, is like,… just… a random throwin, super random