Shaman Tanking in Arena

When I first rolled a shaman, i have this crazy idea. WARMAN! Lol a tanking shaman that is. Well as expected, I got a lot of 'Yo! Warman, so how's your tanking? LOLOL'. Well I am the one having the last laugh now to be honest. They finally agreed and confirmed that a Shaman can indeed Tank! YES! TANK! in arena.

Why is that so, you must be wondering. Well my friends, for some reasons, Shaman has the highest threat in Arena and this threat is divided into 2 different category. The unwise threat and the noob threat. The unwise threat would be Shamans are weak, we take him off first. The noob threat will be Shaman's burst damage is OP, take them out first. Anyhow, both are wrong when they have this idea. It depends a lot on the team settings and if a shaman found himself in a group with no CC class around, then he will be the first to be down. SAD! Now this is when the prophecy of a tanking shaman comes to live.

I do 2v2 with a warrior. Enhance Shaman and MS warrior can charge in and kill whatever class in the World of Warcraft within seconds IF everything procs! The burst damage is just un-imaginable. Blows your mind away. Windfury + Bloodlust + Mongoose + Trinkets + Battleshout + Unleashed Rage = Instant Death X 2. Why X2? Because when you died, the damage will be carried forward and you cannot even release into spirit form. And when your partner is finally down, DO NOT i repeat DO NOT press the Leave Arena button because you will die the 2nd time when you do so. LOL over exaggerating a bit on the Awesomeness of Shaman + Warrior combo.

However, In arena its not all about DPSing and burst damage and who killed the most. The most important thing is knowing who you and your partner are. Knowing who we are and what we can do to compliment each another will win matches nonetheless. For example, when we met a mage + disc priest setup, I yelled, Yo! Get your shield out. and the reply i got, FCUK the shield, we are going in full DPS. SO... we went in, I got sheeped, warrior got frost trap, 3 shot dead and i followed later on all within 45 seconds of game play. I looked at the warrior, he didn't dare to look me back and from that day onwards, his shield is on a macro next to his index finger.

NOW you guys must be thinking, where is the write up on the WARMAN, well here it goes. Most of the time, when you enter arena and you got the unwise and noob threat meter on HIGH alert, take out your shield and get ready to do some tanking. Shaman's tanking is a work of art, not like warriors just standing there and trying to keep up with the DPS threat meter because by nature we got full threat, so we need to worry about staying alive to buy time while your partner try to kill the other guy. When you find yourself in this situation, follow these steps:-

Step 1 : arm your shield
Step 2 : Frost Shock the guy that is chasing you
Step 3 : Drop earth bind totem + windfury totem + Searing totem
Step 4 : Instant cast Ghost Wolf (if you don't have instant cast on Ghost Wolf and you are an enhancement shaman, stop reading now, go respec and come back later)
Step 5 : RUNNNN!!!!!!!
Step 6 : Repeat Step 2 to Step 5 until your warrior kill the other guy

This is the way of the tanking WARMAN. Awesome!

I'm sorry if you guys are trying to find some answers here to do well in arena, but i can tell you guys, owning in arena is about team work, mindset, tactics and knowledge. Yes, knowledge on your class, your partner's class, your enemy.

There is this old chinese saying : Know yourself and your enemies, 100 wars 100 victories.

May the force be with you my fellow warmans.