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I think they did it, enhance viable tank in MoP?
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Geobuster
Not having a 6% crit mitigation (540 defense rating they never took out of the game ,they just hit it and auto gave it to all tank classes) means you can't.
Its the same reason ret, unholy, frost, cat, arms, and fury can't tank.
The fact that you think you can gem for defense means you haven't played a tank since early wrath. Stam is nothing when you get one shot.
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KeleturShask
Taunting too infrequent, not enough threat, no vengeance mechanic, not enough damage mitigation, crittable. Not remotely viable.
Not to be critical, but you made things up, such as "shamanism" (the ele specialization?) and "flame burst." Feral Spirits will no longer have a taunt, and the Earth Elemental taunt does not work on bosses. Toughness was not "baked in" to the spec, and gemming for defense and equipping a shield would annihilate your DPS--and, therefore, any possible threat output.
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d3xx
I'm suprised Blizz didnt make the minimal effort to make Shaman tanking viable. It would have taken very little in way of changes to make a new tanking spec.
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Tockley
The whole druid thing is probably why Blizzard wouldn't want to do this in the first place. I don't think they're too keen on having more than one class that can spec for *any* role (and by that I mean mdps, rdps, healing and tanking).
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ellmo
I've been waiting for a shaman tank for a long time, but vanilla times are over for good (
and even then shaman tanking was a gimmick
)
Let me tell you how many things you have missed:
No crit immunity
No mitigation, no avoidance
No taunt
Rockbiter on either of the weapons would be a
HUGE
dps drop (
read: threat drop
), because you either:
won't proc windfury attacks
your lava lash will be laughable and you won't have +7% magic damage
...oh wait, I forgot you want to carry a tanking shield! I guess you won't have
ANY
of the important weapon enchants then.
Good luck with getting 5stack Maesltrom Weapon when not dualwielding with windfury on main weapon
Saying Enh can be tank because of Spirit Wolf and Earth Elemental is like saying hunters can be tanks because their pets can taunt. Enh is even less viable because of major cooldown on wolves and huge cooldown on EE
There's absolutely no mail gear with avoidance stats
Have you even saw what our parry, dodge and block chances are?
With all those things missing it's safe to assume priests would be equally good tanks.
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