true 
I’m gonna heavily disagree, and Ive tanked for 17 years give or take. Guardian is by far the easiest tank for a new player to pick up and play right out the gate with Warrior a close second mainly because they flow of their play style is so similar. You can basically hit 3 buttons and be fine on a Guardian. Theres very few things to worry about as long as you hit those 3 main buttons, same idea with a Warrior. Paladins and VDH both require a good understanding of your abilities, how they interact and how and when to pull based on your CD’s. Blood DK is simple in theory but you have to pay attention to your RP and make sure not to screw up your rotation or over use some abilities. Brewmaster is, in my opinion, the most fun, but also the most stressful because of the sheer number of things you need to do to stay alive.
And if you don’t believe me, google “Easiest tank in WoW” and read the reddit posts, forum posts, blogs, guides, and watch the youtube videos. They are all nearly unanimous in their comments that Guardian Druid is by far the simplest tank going back to 2008.
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Yeah Guardian is the simplest to play for sure. It has a lot of options for deeper gameplay but the base rotation is very simple and there’s no way to mess up the threat since its a no-CD spammable AOE.
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A lot is your personal playstyle. I played mages for years but hate warlocks, to me they are very different, to some people they are identical.
When DK’s came out I tanked one of those when Monks came out I tanked those, currently I have 2 paladin tanks and they are absolutely my favourite.
My suggestion, roll something you think you might like, level it to 30 to get a flavour and if it aint working, try something else.
I rerolled a priest at 30 once coz I didn’t like the animation it did when it feared. lol
There’s a lot of choice, just pick one and give it a go
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You can play whatever you want at an entry level but once you hit higher end gameplay its very constrained (often BDK for raiding and right now its paladin for M+).
Yeh but that’s not what OP was asking. And from reading through your posts it seems like you don’t know how to tank properly.
If you don’t know tanking back to front, don’t give advice.
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You dont know how to tank if you dont know what active mitigation is
I mean it probably has more than that.
But the only buttons you have to actually pay attention to are Purify Brew and Celestial.
Everything else you press off cd and then spam Tiger Palm. It plays more like a DPS with tank CDs than a tank if you ask me since you’re just clearing stagger, you’re not actually worried about active mitigation to the degree of say a BDK where their damage button that has 50 talents tied to it is also their main active mitigation and it’s not like War/Pal/Bear where your AM is tied in with your resource.
On bear if you feel like yoloing damage, you can’t press Ironfur. BrM isn’t like this whatsoever, you can spam every single damage button on CD and then still be able to use your active mitigation and heal yourself on top of it. Bear can’t even heal its self. BrM self healing is very underlooked. You have more than a few talents that either increase your healing done, healing taken and they have August Blessing too which means they can over heal themselves until the sun goes down.
Also roll is easier to use and better than Stampeding Roar and Leg Sweep is a better button than Incap Roar. The QoL of BrM outweighs how easy Bear is to play imo, but that may be a rose tinted glasses thing, not sure.
see that’s the problem with this entire thread and most threads like it. fun is subjective. Difficulty is subjective. Learning is subjective. Everything we experience individually is subjective. The only objective in anything we talk about here is the game and where it currently sits from a mechanical standpoint. So we could debate all day long about which tank is easier to do what and even think that we’re providing some sort of facts but ultimately some of us find different tanks easier than others and ultimately it’s just gonna keep running in a circle to beat a dead horse, the way we do in every single threat on this forum like any of us are actually adding anything new or making a difference myself included.
feel free to heavily disagree and see above
I understand the term active mitigation. I didn’t understand the other wording you use there. but if nothing else see above above because I’m over this topic
“You guys proved me wrong, but I refuse to acknowledge that so i’m gonna pretend like I know what I’m talking about and stop replying”
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I stopped replying because I went to sleep. Although it’s kind of a tossup between that and continuing to have a debate with people, I don’t really know and don’t actually care about. I’ve played the game for 19 years. I’ve done pretty well at it. I don’t really need some pedantic information based on how they play their class and crunch numbers. but whatever makes you guys feel better. I’m all for it.
Wow, I can tell you’ve never actually played Brewmaster because none of what you said is correct…
Druid is by far the easiest to pick up. You can literally just spam iron fur and swipe and succeed.
You can even just macro iron fur so it auto casts.
But generally its probably best to just pick whatever you want and start learning it. Hopefully what you want to pick is paladin because otherwise you won’t get invited to M+ above +10 due to Blizzard’s terrible balance team.
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depends on your playstyle
best to watch some videos of other people tanking and getting a list of pros vs cons going then just do a process of elimination and boom you have your tank.
If new to the game? Probably bear or warrior.
If you’re familiar with the game from a DPS perspective, probably blood DK. It plays just like a regular DPS except instead of focusing entirely on big damage, you just focus on big self-healing by using Death Strike but not too much and you can pretty much auto-pilot through all queued content, all solo content, and most group content until getting to much higher difficulties.
BDK is good for soloing but its the hardest tank spec in M+. Not really a good entry thing.
On the other hand, if you want to raid learning BDK is a good idea since they’re the meta raid tank 90% of the time.
Dont understand the term folding or the term GCD?
Either way, you still have no idea what youre talking about. Your advice is sufficient for leveling at best and nothing else. Had absolutely nothing to do with what the OP requested
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Pick the one you think is the coolest and the one you enjoy playing! Honestly in the right hands they’re all good and no tank is the best forever.
Right now prot paladin is far better than the other tanks. But it’s all their buttons outside of tanking that really makes them shine.