Give shammy’s a Tank spec?
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When a spec of a class goes haywire in an expension (like enhancement shamans or marksman hunters). People reacts to it like, “well you already have this specs that play great, you can’t expect to have 3 specs that tops the meters”.
Maybe true for classes like warlocks / hunters / mages / rogues etc who has 3 more or less same play style but difference of gameplay between enhancement-elemental or balance-feral is like day and night. They should be treated as such.
This has been the case through many expensions. Shamans best spec has been resto in many expensions and other shaman specs has been told to shut up by community. Now it’s elemental that it’s doing well. Shaman forums can’t finish a week without “buff resto” , “wtf enhancement” posts.
I think blizzard shares the view. You can ask anyone if they want an enhancement shaman in their dungeon / arena / raid group right now. Answer will be a firm no. Blizzard doesn’t seem to care since shamans have 2 other specs they can play and 1 of them doing quite well.
So all this shaman tank business is nice and fun on paper but i don’t see it implemented without disrupting the class balance even further. For example, when is the last time you played with a demon hunter tank in a dungeon or raid? They are utter crp. Even druid tanks are in a bind right now. Who says it won’t be like that for shaman class? Even it turns out great, it will make the spot light dimmer on enhancement spec.
I don’t think game needs more specs or classes. I don’t know if it’s a resource issue or if it’s just plain impossible to make the specs more balanced in a given situation… I’m not a developer after all. But blizzard seems to be unable to do that(it took them 1 year to nerf blade flurry of rogues). So adding more specs into the game will make this big problem even bigger. No one wants another failed dream.
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I think they could make a pretty sweet and unique tank out of it tbh. Earth for mitigation, water for passive healing like leech or something, and lightning for debuffs and damage.
Not gonna lie, I’d probably like it.
Originally enhancement was the tank spec, they just scrapped it.
Never was a tank spec but it had talents tank specs had, but they didnt go further than that if i recall it correct.
It was weird, we had some nice tank talents and several abilities that generated threat (like buttload of threat), in combination with stoneclaw, elemental and tranquil totem enha could easily work as offtank … (I actually served as OT even during TBC)
But if we were to become tanks I dont want another boring swordnboard …
I want something new and cool, bring back stoneclaw and tranquil totems (to have similar system to warr vigilance), allow elementals to tank properly, support totems for armour and against magic …
Not just stand there with shield in hand and spam rockbitter to pull mobs …
Wasn’t it more like an off tank spec sort of, not sure it was intended, but it was used like that?
That being said, a shaman tank spec would probably rock.
No. Enh is a joke especially in pvp, resto is a joke on M+ why you need a prolly broken or lame 4th spec? Let them first fix the others!
Why? There’s already a shortage of tanks playing Warrior, Pala, DK, DH, Monk, Druid I don’t see how a 7th class will make a difference.
And still we dont have enough tanks, waitin four hours to go raid/dungeon) So i think there will be more room for tanking if we receive more new tank designs. I dont wanna pally or warrior or anything else instead of my shaman as a tank.
It would be nice indeed, i fear healing in M+ because i’ve never done it before.
But i love a shaman and tanking as one on a 4th spec would be super.
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