can shaman tank after level 50Follow

Not well. At level 66 you get the earth elemental, which is a handy tank with a 2 minute life and a 20 minute cooldown.

If you WERE going to tank, I'm thinking you'd want to be resto and spam heal yourself. Use a shield. It won't work well, but if you outlevel the instance it might be doable.

I wouldnt ever EVER ever say that a shaman can tank, we have no taunt ability other than our earth elemental which on a 10 min cd - it wouldnt work.

To be fair, anyone can take on an instance if you go in at a much higher level, but I wouldnt recommend it if you are trying to level a shaman tank, its just not a good idea.

Plus shaman cant really get tanking gear - I mean we can get a nice shield/mace setup, but our gear is strictly limited to non-defensive gear. It wouldnt work out well.

Really no one other than plate wearers or well armored druid should be able to tank at this point in the game.

no no no... a thousand times no.

You can get shammy tanking gear it is just very rare. ...of the champion gear you can get you DEF well above 490 (assumeing this would be uncritable) This would take alot of time and luck the greens are easy to come by but for blues you would need to farm the rares, I doubt someone would AH a blue mail of the champion worth more as a shard, and "hope" for the right drop also animal boss in kara has the chance to drop an epic of the champion. So yeah you could do it. Personally I wouldn't but have seen people do some pretty "amazing" things with their toons.

EDIT actually thinking about this Between Gear you can get Mace or axe, shield, cloak, trinkets and rings. Plus enchants and gems, and the other gear listed above you really could tank OK Maybe ill try it out at 80 don't have the time to spend on it right now.

Enhance would be the ideal build use CL to pull and on every CD plus frost shock every CD

Edited, Oct 21st 2008 10:00pm by shammytank

[quote-MentalFrog]Tanks need to be able to do two things in order to play the role of a tank; 1. take a lot of damage 2. hold agro[/quote]

That's pretty much the sum of it. A dual wield shammy can do fine at holding the aggro but utterly fails when it comes to taking a lot of damage. Unless you vastly outgear the instance (and your healer does too) it is simply never going to work.

I've found that I can tank one target, but tanking anything more than that is just no going to happen. So, in theory, I'd say Shamans can make ok offtanks, but as far as being a constant main tank, not so much. We don't have any mechanics to take back aggro when we lose it, first of all. Second of all, we only wear mail, which makes us quite a bit squishier than other tanks.

I haven't been playing shaman that long, but I could swear there was a time when they were pretty decent tanks, albeit not as good as others. When did they get changed to being only DPS or Healer (Serious question)?

In shadowmoon valley on one of the elite quests (Uvuros) there was a shammy who said he could tank it as the paladin was delayed finishing up some netherwing quests. Ok, I can heal. 2 deaths (with me OOM both times trying to heal him) later the paladin came by and we finished it easily with plenty of mana and no trouble.

Shammies can not tank mobs of similar level. No aggro. No avoidance. Not nearly enough armor.

Don't tank as a shammy unless you are very seriously overgeared.

You always make me giggle. There was actually "Once up on a time" that shamans did tank pre-TBC and off-tank when needed simply because enhancement always could ride the threat of a tank close. Let's say the tank dies, Macro-swap to a shield, Frost Shock, and you just saved a mage.

An enhancement shaman could actually spec into some "tanking" talents (unlike a mage) and they can wear a shield and have threat generation from windfury and Frost Shock. Single target tanking, they could probably do ok through the 50's and could do ok through normal dungeons to 70 if they outgear the place. I don't think it would be possible to tank heroics though and raid bosses would just splat/**** all over an enhancement shaman.

Though not a raid tank, shadow priests could tank instances at level 60 in vanilla WoW when wearing full Ironweave.