I used to tank Karazhan as a Shaman with random blue mail gear with tank stats, its actually pretty viable but you need a raid that is not braindead so they wait at least a while for you to generate threat. Paladin blessings help a lot too. Melee is also handicapped because they need to be extra careful to not take the aggro. We even had a moonkin that was tanking Kara aswell, its not completely optimal but when you just want a quick random raid with buddies this can work. Shaman works up to the hardest heroics too, obviously healer gets his shit pushed in pretty hard but tanking shaman is prettty good at keeping himself alive, especially in a ranged party so you just keep healing youself to create threat. In my opinion its better to go suboptimal with people you trust than to go with some random tank that is retarded, and you can spread Primals between yourselves as needed as most tanks want them as payment.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe. Original heroics were hard even with a proper tank (warrior/druid/paladin), not to mention mobs like Karazhan's Skeletal Usher.
I feel I vaguely remember shaman tanking emerging in that expac fairly late in the cycle (probably some later-patch-implemented badge gear made it easier if not possible in the first place). IIRC at that time Shaman were a top commodity in 5v5 arena, almost non-existent in smaller configurations until Shadowplay, gigabuff raid monsters as Enhancement, and I personally found healing heroics to be pretty fun as a Shaman. It was also the resident home of the whiners. 3-second rule was bullshit. I almost want to play again, but that feels like a trap. Definitely not the most OP class, though.
First boss in Gruul lair had mage tanking and a few shenanigans like that.
Goddamn you are right, it was on 2.4.3 so heroics were pretty nerfed. I forgot to mention that. Serves me right for posting drunk. Crushing blows were a real bitch, resi really helped if I remember correctly. Also it turned out we all played on uber hard mode because when doing Hyjal we've found out our main tank is a retard who didn't know that he shouldn't stand backwards towards the boss...
I once went full unga-bunga with BM hunter in 2v2. Berserking + Bloodlust + Tidal Charm and we just murderfucked some random guy with his pet before he could even react. Unless it was SL/SL obviosuly ;/
Respec to ele at 60 and have smooth sailing. Enhancement levelling is ton of fun (especially after getting WF) but after 60, elemental is king.
Original AV was a world PvP zone, although they instanced it when they officially launched it. It was possible in the early days of WoW to swim around Stormwind and land in AV's world region before AV got released and start mining the unpopulated area. Tbh there were a lot of world zones that got turned into instances when they actually released them. Also, that stuff reminds me: in the early days of Alterac Valley, entering the battleground just to basically AFK mine for ores was a thing. They removed the mining and herbalism nodes in a patch or two because it annoyed the shit out of everyone to have dead weight on your team like that.
They added a cooldown to windfury in TBC tbh. Honestly I thought it was retarded that in TBC they added Paladins to Horde and Shamans to Alliance. It really showed in what kind of direction they were taking the game, flattening faction differences like that.
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Classic wasn't anything like vanilla WoW or even private servers for that matter. It's all about boosting, maximizing efficiency, etc., so you can get back to League of Legends or whatever. Kids are different these days.
Exactly. Classic was never like vanilla, which is unfortunate. People have had years and years of theory crafting to min max the shit out of the experience.
