Gornah:
With totemic being Enh/Resto… dare i hope that it might be a tank spec intro??? Tank shaman has gone down well on sod, its how i imagined it would play like.
I dont want it to just be an aug evoker but for shamans.
Absolutely NOT. Not only was Aug a massive failure and should be deleted from the game entirely. But an additional tank spec would require a talent tree of its own. Its a fallacy to believe you can do the SoD treatment and magically get a tank. NO. Hero talents just wont cut it.
And leave SoD to SoD. If you love it so much just play it.
To be honest, im so tired of hearing the same coments im just gonna copy paste WHY you should leave SoD alone.
This is my response to someone asking for shaman 2-handers:
SoD gets weekly tuning. You see any of that in Retail yet?
NO?
Whatever they do in SoD should stay in SoD. Dont take it as an inspiration. Simply because, classes are MUCH simpler than in retail.
Take tanks for example:
In SoD its enough to say: This class takes XX% less damage, and generates YY% more agro. DONE. Got a tank.
In retail its different. You need deff CDs of some kind. Shield block, Ironfur, Ignore Pain… Stuff that a DPS warrior (for example) for example does not have. You cant just get a warrior, slap a shield and say they receive 30% less damage and make it a tank. You need special abilities and a talent tree.
Storm build could focus on dual-wielding lightning strikes (pun intended) with Windfury on one of the weaponsElementalist build could use a two-hander, forgoing Windfury’s swing speed but gaining larger hits
And the same way you cant just slap a 2-hander to a shaman and call that a DPS. You need more. And because you need more, its a full Rework right there.
And guess what? I know EXACTLY where this will end up: Same place Frost DKs and Fury Warriors are. One option will be much more OP than the otherone.
Have you seen any 1-handed fury warriors around lately? Why? Because if the WHOLE spec revolves around weapon damage and spamming abilities all the time you cant possibly make 1-handers better than 2-handers with only 1 talent. You need to rework the whole tree to make it work.
So you would get a half-baked 2-hander tree and a half-baked 1-hander tree. Better to ditch 1-handers and have 1 well built, well rounded 2-hander tree in the case of Fury.
That is why.