Read a post recently about what changes people would like for shamans next expansion and it turned into people just making up abilities they wanted. Some of them sounded really cool so i wanted to hear other peoples ideas, ill start.

Some minor guidelines, nothing stupid like "this ability fires a nuke that kills everyone in the game" present a reason for making this ability, who the ability is for, talent, glyph, spec specific ect, and try to make it balanced.I always felt that the shields mechanic of shamans was a cool idea but they like stopped it halfway and made it gimmicky.

Ability name : Protection of the Elements. Cooldown 2min, Duration 15 seconds, Enhances your elemental shields into more potent versions.

Lightning shield: Turns into Thundershield. Thundershield: Increases the damage done by lightning shield when struck by 150%, Activates upon each hit. When the effect is triggered a lightning bolt is discharged at the target equal to 80% of lightning bolts damage. But has a 7% chance to backfire causing the shaman to take the lightning bolt instead.

Water shield: Turns into Water Aegis, Engulfs the shaman completely in a protective water barrier the amount of mana recovered is doubled, when struck the water absorbs much of the initial inpact, decreasing physical damage taken by 60%. When the effect ends, the shaman takes all of the damage that was negated over 30 seconds.

Earth Shield: Volcanic Shield, The shamans earth shield erupts, covering the target in a molten volcanic shield. When active, the target takes an additional 10% healing from the shaman and does 40% of their damage as fire damage and puts a dot on any enemy it hits for 5% of the damage done. But takes 4% of their health every second.

Thunder shield is meant to be a defensive/offensive cd similar to that of touch of karma where it penalizes the person for tunneling the shaman.

Water Aegis is intended to be a sort of instant gratification, you can regen some mana while being trained but you pay for it later on.

Volcanic shield is meant to put forth more pressure but at a decent cost.