Enhancement = Tanking spec? (Poll)

[Jaylock]

Would you like to have blizzard create a tanking spec out of the enhancement tree? What would be the pros and cons of this? Do you think it would be fun to use your shaman as a tank? How about there being extra options for tanking along with the Monk Brewmaster?

I personally think it would be quite fun. Your thoughts?

[DrakeWurrum]

No.

Make that hell no.

[Edison]

Yes, could turn out to be something awesome. I'd love to see that happend

[Deleted]

Yes. God yes.

[Agent Mercury]

I miss tanking ZG.

[Sieger1145]

We need as many tanks/healers as we can get imo, but if it's the same as druids were with feral being so convoluted it was hard to spec right, it would be bad.

[Jaylock]

No.

Make that hell no.

No is a respectable answer, but why do you feel this way?

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We need as many tanks/healers as we can get imo, but if it's the same as druids were with feral being so convoluted it was hard to spec right, it would be bad.

They would have to make the tree creative and different feeling from other tanks. Possibly use totems as defensive cooldowns that pulse and radiate a huge shield or something. Or have the ability to put a totem at a specific location to give dammage reduction to a group? So say a raid boss had mechanics where people had to get in groups at certian areas of the battlefield, the shaman tank could pop a totem down from across the room for that specific group to shield them a bit? Would be a cool mechanic.

[Triggered Fridgekin]

I think there are still remnants on gear when Shamans were seen as potential off tanks back in Vanilla with some +def/+dodge gear and set bonus like the Scholomance set. Shamans could do it in TBC as well, I remember running H Mech with a Shaman tank on a whim when we needed it for our daily...

I mean, even the current (new) Rockbiter is weird at this point in time.

Rockbiter Weapon
8% of base mana
Instant
Requires Melee Weapon
Imbue the Shaman's weapon with the fury of the earth, increasing all threat generation by 30% and reducing damage taken by 5%. Lasts 30 minutes.

[Vizardlorde]

No.

Make that hell no.

i think he meant like they made a 4th spec for druids they could take some of the funny threat abilities from enhancement and make few new spells and make a 4th spec capable of tanking

[Jaylock]

i think he meant like they made a 4th spec for druids they could take some of the funny threat abilities from enhancement and make few new spells and make a 4th spec capable of tanking

That would be cool, but I was originally saying changing the enhancement tree to be a tanking specific tree instead of damage. A 4th tree like the druid would be a sweet thing though, although i think other classes would be jealous and mad.

[Televators]

I think it would be awesome, so long as Enhancement DPS remained an option.

[Ihnasir]

I would like to see it, but it won't happen, since I also love Enhancement dps. I voted no, although I'd like to see it, there's just too much to do to it and I don't want to lose my current Enhancement dps.

[Arinnaya]

No to losing a DPS spec, yes to adding a fourth spec for tanking.

[lildave151]

No to losing a DPS spec, yes to adding a fourth spec for tanking.

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. Being able to tank on my shaman? I'd be all for it. Losing my enhancement MS? Definitely no.

[Aronaz]

Would be fun to, atleast, test indeed!

[Phate]

No, not really, and I'm tired of seeing this question asked all the time.

I want to keep enhancement as a melee dps. I do not want it turned into a tank spec. If I want to play a tank I will play a class that can tank. I just do not think enhancement needs to be changed so drastically.

[OBXSpitFire]

Would be awesome with a 4th spec. 2h enhance tanking with rockbiter sounds good to me

[Dryscal]

Some guy posted on the Mists Blizzard boards his idea for a Shaman tanking spec. It was actually really well thought out and pretty developed. He had it as a 4th spec, so we wouldn't lose Enhancement DPS, and it was called "Earth-Warder" or something. He got a blue post reply on it, pretty much for just A+ effort, but still, I think it could work if they decided to go for it.

Edit: Here's the link to that guys post. Enjoy.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3129453760

[DrakeWurrum]

No is a respectable answer, but why do you feel this way?

I personally feel it would be a waste of development resources, both for the shaman class and for the game as a whole. We don't need another Shield-wielding tank that deals lots of magic damage and has decent self-healing. I also don't feel it fits the style of what Shaman do (that is, tanks are "front-line warriors" and I don't see Shaman that way).
Shaman also do not need a 4th spec, let alone to lose their dual-wield melee DPS spec. A lot of effort has gone into the Shaman spec to make us into ranged/melee/healer, and for it all to add together to be Shaman. I don't want all of that to be changed up in order to fit tank in somehow.

They can do it to druids because they're splitting up the functionality that was already in the Feral tree, something Druids were already designed to do, so that they can balance the two roles separately.

[ImpTaimer]

If Monks are getting a tank and healing spec, then Shamans deserve to have their unfinished tank spec back in full glory. Heck, even give Rogues a tank spec via Combat spec. Even the new Demonology "tree" for Warlocks can easily be turned into a tank spec.

I hate it when developers create a new class/character because they refuse to test changes with an existing class properly *couWarriorgh* and it ends up being a mixture of two classes they failed to balance and keep interesting *couDKgh*.

Monks are just rogue + shaman, whereas DKs are just warrior + warlock. Druids were the first type of this class and we all know how that turned out. Instead of making the core classes interesting they give a new class better version of it with a different name and color.

Really fucking hate Ghostcrawler...