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Shaman Tanking as used to be..is that possible again? check out there
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Fulgurah
I mean, sure it will theoretically work when you outgear content and have patient healers and DPS. There are videos up of some Shaman tanking Ulduar bosses.
HOWEVER, I just think it's absolutely moronic. The fact is...your threat gen/avoidance/aoe/HP are all awful. There are more tanks out there now than ever and there isn't a "niche" that Shaman tanks can fulfill. And, Shaman DPS and Healing are both competitive (Ele needs some more buffs, I know) that this REALLY wastes a raid spot. If you want a tank who can also DPS as an offspec, you can literally grab any of the four tanking classes.
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Crawshayi
This could be fun to mess around with your guild if you out-gear the content (Nax or something) but it's not anything practical and as others have already pointed out, there are plenty of classes now that do it better than us.
There's a reason why we can't queue up as a Tank in the Dungeon Finder.... Blizzard doesn't want us to tank... yet. In the future? Who knows.
Another thing; this has been discussed many times before so you should do a search next time.
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Jarkeler
Tanking, although sounding far fetched, is actually doable. You can see this much on
Sharicasmi's youtube channel
. You can see that even some current content is achievable on a tanking shaman.
Keep in mind however, that you would might not want Spirit Weapons. The threat you loss from this is just not worth the parry chance, in my opinion, but that's up for you to decide. It would also be a benefit to get a hunter to misdirect you, or, if possible, get a rogue glyphed for tricks of the trade. Apparently, it's as good as three hunter misdirects.
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