I saw this guy in a thread he posted on the Tanking Forums, an honest-to-goodness Shaman Tank. And, by Shaman Tank, I mean a guy that tanks content he outgears and works around silly setbacks like not having a taunt, or threat-capping a raid, through sheer force of will.
I admire the gumption that it must take to pull off such a stunt. He’s obviously really good at his class and has an amazing imagination to conceive and execute this. Not to mention his powers of persuasion to get 24 other people to go along with it.
And can we talk about the 25man raid that let this guy win a Juggernaut’s Vitality?
It’s a shame that Catalcysm (with its 6% uncrit talents) will basically dictate which classes will be allowed tank. Players like this fellow should be encouraged to push the boundaries of his class, as long as others are willing to go along with him.
One thing he does have going for him, though, is the ridiculously OP regeneration racial. And there’s NOTHING we can do about it.
Amazing.
Dey terk er Jerbs!
I love people that can do this – I agree, he’s a hero. Kinda like that rogue that tanked Illidan and Gruul. Pulling stuff off like this is always great. I also am sure that people will still be doing this, even after the change in Cataclysm.
I think that is simply amazing. He discovered a….. tanking spec for Shamys!!!
Wow o_o; now i got to watch out for shamys that may be rolling on my tank trinkets and rings >-<;
Wasnt there a first tier talent for enhance that had improved block or something? Funny enough, once I started up a shaman alt I really wondered where that went. (I was gonna level resto, damn you!)
Enhancement did have a lot of tanking-esque talents back in the day when Shamans and Paladins were considered kind of “fake tanks” in Vanilla. I think in TBC a lot of those got streamlined out (from shammies; somehow we made the cut). Kind of funny to think that Blizz actually considered shamans tanks back in the day.
Wait until you see my Rogue tank Spec.
Prot Rogue for the win.
He plays on Chromaggus and has his wife(rogue) use tricks of the trade to generate threat. He is a really good tank as you can see in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PrUdlvLc-8.
when wow started i first played a shaman. I remember tanking as a shaman back then before i switched to alliance. It was only until i got into the alliance did i learn shamans couldnt tank D:
ty for proving me wrong!!