Shaman tank ?

[durabigael]

Do you think that possible for a shaman to tank 5 man ?

I m not talking about high end instance. But i never played a shaman in Vanila.
If the shaman go ench.

Choose
-Shield Specialization
-Anticipation
-Toughness
-Parry

Get some enchant.

Is that possible ? Or there is not really any skill to hold the aggro

[Bioness]

You could use it to off tank very briefly, but otherwise no. It is a gimmicky spec that only works in very special situations.

[Mchayes]

You can easily make this happen. I've 'tanked' every 5man available as a hunter. You just need to prepare a bit and not go in extremely clueless.

I am unsure about Vanilla Shamans but your threat spells are Rockbiter weapon and Frost shocking. Tinker your way through a specc to get parry as you said and decide if you want more threat by going into elemental or go for a more healing spec. Where you also pick up the hit% talents, never wasted.

Find some tank gear, heavy on avoidance. Try out the tanking with a healer you know.

Bioness makes no sense in that it would work in very special situations. Unless rockbiter weapon is bugged.

Make it happen ^).

[Kal66]

You must have been that one guy in Barrens chat today

[ritjos71]

You can easily make this happen. I've 'tanked' every 5man available as a hunter. You just need to prepare a bit and not go in extremely clueless.

I am unsure about Vanilla Shamans but your threat spells are Rockbiter weapon and Frost shocking. Tinker your way through a specc to get parry as you said and decide if you want more threat by going into elemental or go for a more healing spec. Where you also pick up the hit% talents, never wasted.

Find some tank gear, heavy on avoidance. Try out the tanking with a healer you know.

Bioness makes no sense in that it would work in very special situations. Unless rockbiter weapon is bugged.

Make it happen ^).

It's Earth Shock not Frost Shock... also this maybe possible, it also maybe possible to tank all the 5mans as a mage, but it's ridiculous.

[Aunstic]

it also maybe possible to tank all the 5mans as a mage, but it's ridiculous.

Above 50% pre-raid geared frost-arcane mage here. It's hard to tank (pocket healer) SM Cath, but everything under Cath is a breeze (including solo'ing).

I'm sure high ranking PvP players such as Steezy can easily solo/tank instances though. Pretty sure Frost Warding (currently broken) + Arcane Resilience (don't know if it works) would make it easier though.

[Chillout]

There was couple videos of shaman tanking Onyxia in vanilla.

[Mizu]

Last I played on this server, your primary threat tools, Earth Shock and Rockbiter Weapon, were not adding the correct amount of additional threat. As a matter of fact, they were adding none. If this has been fixed, you should be able to tank all the way to 60 no problem.

[Metukka]

There was couple videos of shaman tanking Onyxia in vanilla.

Well there's also a video of a raid group consisting only of priests killing onyxia, I wouldnt use those as proof of something being actually viable :p