Bringing back rockbiter weapon and shaman tankage

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Post by lachy1

shamans are not tanks.... if they were they would open up the que to be one....rock biter is more of a way to exploit the way this class is as a hybrid... lets say you were raiding and your tank DC's im pretty sure a shammy can hold up with good enough heals until he comes back..... back in the pre TBC days i pretty much tanked everything as a shaman.. except for raids

Post by Bloodspeaker

Shaman tanking changes;
Masteries
1)Mental Quickness Mastery-Increases you spellpower by an amount equal to 50% of your attack power while Flametongue Weapon or Windfury Weapon are equipped and increases aggro by 50% of your stamina while Rockbiter Weapon is equipped. Reduces the mana cost of your instant cast spells by 75%.
2)Increases all Frost, Fire and Nature damage by 20% while Flametongue Weapon or Windfury Weapon are equpped or shields you for 25% of all frost, fire or nature dmg done while Rockbiter Weapon is equipped. Each point of Mastery increases these effects by 2.5%.
Talents
1)Elemental Guardian- Reduces incoming dmg by (6/16/18%).
2)Totemic Armour-Requires Elemental Guardian, Reduces the chance that you will be critically hit by melee attacks by (3/6%) while Rockiter Weapon is equipped. Your totems are also now attached to your armour and follow you around.

That seems to me like the beginnings of making shamans viable tanks. Lemme know what you think.

Post by Fulgorater

I would like to see Shamans be able to tank because it would make them true hybrids. Right now the only true hybrids are Druids and Paladins. These classes can fill each role: damage, healer and tank. Shamans are described as hybrids but can only damage and heal.

I don't think it would be too difficult to devise some talents that allow us to tank. Lets start using that shield for more than just looks/stats.

Well the thing is, Paladin's aren't as "True Hybrid" as you may put it.

I see the hybrid's as gradition moving to the druid as the only "TRUE hybrid"

Shaman = Offensive Hybrid (range dps, melee, dps, heals)
Paladin = Defensive Hybrid (tanking, melee dps, heals)

Druid = TRUE hybrid (range dps, melee dps, tanking, heals)

but don't get me wrong :) I loved tanking scholo and LBRS/UBRS and such back in vanilla... two maninng last boss of ST with a pro priest when we were both 45 remains one of my favorite memories...

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Bringing back rockbiter weapon and shaman tankage

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