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Enhancement Tanks in Cataclysm
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Fulgurah
While your ideas are within the realm of reasonable (and not OP as hell), it's just not going to happen. Blizzard has already stated they've abandoned the idea completely and now the DK fills in the fourth tanking class position.
Not to crush on your ideas, though.
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chase123
I like the tanking idea and I would love to see some 2 handed enhance dps viability as well.
Post by
WyvernVJ
I actually like ur idea ...i would loooove to tank on my shaman ...however, we already got earth, wind and fire shields so another wind would be dumb ...i would change it for:
Fire Shield: Surrounds the target party or raid member with 3 Fire orbs that increase that ally's critical chance by rank%. 10% of the threat generated by that ally is passed to the shaman. Whenever the target ally deals a critical strike, an orb may be consumed passing 100% of that critical strike's threat to the shaman.
Talent at the level of Stormstrike ...our own Vigilance.
Improved Fire Shield: Increases the threat passing of your Fire Shield spell orbs to 20/30% and the number of orbs to 5/7.
At the level of Improved Stormstrike ...this talent would be similar to restoration's Earth Shield as we would need more threat generation while items would grant armor and Lightning Shield on us would help our damage/threat increase while we put Fire Shield on our healer/highest dps. The way that improved shields would work with this is adding to the critical strike increase.
From Stone to Iron (requires 2 ranks in Guardian Totems): Whenever you are affected by your own Stoneskin totem's aura you gain an increase of 280% to your armor contribution from mail items and increases the health of your Stoneskin and Grounding totems by 100%.
This would present in the way of an Ironskin buff that gives u the same as the Stoneskin aura and the armor increase. Our dire bear form. Replaces Shamanistic Focus or that one should be given another form.
The flametongue and lava lash ideas u put sound great to me ...but weapon enhancements should change name taking away the "weapon" thing.
As for that, we would be using frostbrand on our tanking weapon.
I also like the idea of the Glyph of Frost Shock. Itemization for enhancement sets could change to match something like the sets for feral druids.
Please Blizz, let us tank! ...nobody likes DK tanks!
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Mesoforte
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The idea of tank buffs tied to stationary totems is probably not a good idea. (talking about the stoneskin idea)
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BlueDestiny
I think making Rockbiter Weapon into a tanking enchant might be a good start.
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Buttery
rockbiter was the original tanking imbue and is still used at low lvls even though the threat modifier is gone.
I love the incorporation of totems into the tanking style, that is a must if this idea is ever to become remotely viable.
Instead of one lame talent that makes tanking viable, like for druids; shammy tanking should be tied to our totems and our shields. This fits with the feel of the class more. And while the totems interact with our party, it shouldnt buff (increase of dps) them.
New Sentry totem! In addition to current effects, provides Additional perspective on enemies, increasing our chance to dodge/parry by 6%
So for the imp. stoneskin, it should increase our armor at the expense of the party, like a 5% debuff; which is meaningless to dps, while giving us a 25% bonus.
For a fire totem, it should be our threat modifier that redirects a % threat from everything around it to the shammy (so mobs dont destroy the totems).
The Water totem would ideally be something essential as well or we'd always have cleansing or healing stream out. I'd say increased effect of healing on us as well as gives us mana (ie.
this
)and allows a ele shield to be placed on us by another shaman (for our resto comrades).
Add a couple of survival CDs and we're golden. Love the idea, I rolled a warrior to tank as well. /sadface
Edited for speeling =D
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Buttery
tuning things for another tank is gonna be difficult, I'm sure with cataclysm and the new system where you can changes stats on items a bit, blizz can leave the tuning to us.
Just state from the start that they are throwing us a bone, letting us tank, but nothing will be tuned for us and all QQ goes straight to the trash. That would make things more fun imo, more prestige for the good shammy tank. Can you imagine swapping totems on the fly and such, we'd make the ultimate emergency tanks.
Zero chance of imba in pvp since players will just destroy totems and the debuff from the totems can tuned make it even less viable.
Make more wishes! beg santa!
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Sokur
I just healed Reg Gundrak & DTK on my resto druid with an Enh. Shaman tanking. I was 74 and the Shammy was 77. Her weapons were
Riot Shield
&
Crimson Cranium Crusher
. Now, while level 75 dungeons are a far cry from Heroics, I had NO problems healing the Shaman and she had no problems holding aggro. I think it's a start.
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