I have been recently thinking about which tank to main. I know everyone always says “Paladin” when this question arises but I would love to not have to wait until TBC comes out and level again. If anyone can give me some pros and cons to bear or prot warrior that would be great! I know bear is pretty good in tbc but i also enjoy the idea of being a big tauren prot warrior, but with that said, i hear warriors are trash tanks in tbc. Thanks in advance
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The case for Druid over Warrior is they have the best single target threat, in an expansion where threat is a big issue
Prot Warrior is solid as hell, there are no poor tanks in TBC and the mitigation is very useful on specific fights, but TPS is not at the same level as a Druid
To be honest I can see guilds bringing all three Tanks. Druid/Pala as your MT/AoE tanks and Warrior as flex DPS/Tank. Dual spec makes it easy to swap tanks around from boss to boss
Raiding aside, are Warriors OK Heroic Dungeon and AoE tanks?
Both are good for different reasons, my TBC guild uses Prot wariror, Bear and Prot paladin and rotated them depending on the fight. They’re all valuable in their own way.
Prot warrior is the most fun tank. If you like hitting buttons and being mobile, then you’ll like prot warrior in TBC. Just remember that most of your abilities have short CDs on them, and you should be utilizing them all the time.
If you easily get overwhelmed and don’t want to think about it, then pick a druid or paladin.
Protection Warrior requires the most gear for different options depending on what you are doing and has the highest APM by a decent chunk. Playing Protection Warrior in TBC is a busy but straight forward tanking style. Some like myself find that fun.
For average players it won’t matter what tank you bring. Towards the end of TBC you’ll see Bears dominating and speed running guilds will favor them earlier than that. Warriors are the only tanks that can MT all bosses start to finish without much fuss , but they are not the ideal perfect google sheets simulator tank for all bosses. Objectively the worst on some encounters but still quite capable. WoW players tend to way overstate things, always have. Another play what will make you happy kind of deal.
You can level during the prepatch. Paladins are going to be saturated like no one’s business though lol.
That’s because you’re listening to people who confidently give bad information.
They’re pretty abysmal for tanking a high number of individual units, and you’ll find yourself only asking for prot paladin tanks in dungeons/heroics, but warrior tanks are great for bosses. They’re the best early game tank because they have access to better mitigation early on with a higher number of safeguard cooldowns, and from there they pretty much just stay decent tanks. If you want to be the tauren, be the tauren. You can DPS a lot this go-round too because of dual spec. Also be prepared to obtain PVP gear. It’s quite good for warrior tanks.
Paladins shine because they have ridiculous AOE threat for high numbers of individual units. Aside from that, they’re just tanks. Outside of group content, they’re absolute farming gods if you ever struggle with making gold. They end up being the top bot class in late TBC/early Wrath
Druids are pretty great throughout the expansion as well. They have pool noodle damage on swipe early on because they lack attack power until later, but they only get better as you go. Their avoidance was so ungodly high in original TBC, they created an anti-dodge debuff in SWP to counter them
They have an okay option in the form of cat when it comes to offspec dps, but warrior’s fury off spec is going to be better unless you absolutely need to maintain leader of the pack.
Druids do heavily lack in style points, because every single spec they play hides the gear inside the body of a shapeshift, so your 1995 action hero shots aren’t going to pop as much on a druid. Flight form, summon Anzu, tank the run, and hard res Reins of the Ravenlord to yourself. Ezwin.
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