What is an “authentic private server”?
People play Warrior because they want to. The vast majority of people are total casuals.
They don’t understand or even care what optimization is. Then you get these kids who only played Vanilla talking about TBC like they know better.
What you’re talking about is completely anecdotal. And as many, many, many people have said now, anecdotes are not math.
What part of this is not clear?
Often I find that when someone runs out of facts or they are wrong they then decide to attack the person instead. This is what you are doing. You are factually wrong on several counts. You are angry about it so deflecting by name calling and having a temper tantrum.
It’s okay to be wrong. That is what discussions are for so we can all learn and become better players. Have a great day
Explain your vast experience playing TBC? None right?
You don’t know anything. You’re arguing from a tiny forest in the distance, yelling up at the moon.
Get over it.
The Warrior preference included the top guilds on those servers. Keep in mind 90%+ of the most hardcore parsing guilds in Classic came from private servers. An authentic private server was a server that went as close to the original game as possible. The only difference is content was often buffed a bit so it would last longer, which I wish Blizzard would do. They won’t do it because of all the retail andys wanting welfare epics and to clear raids without having to get good.
Yet you can’t dispute where you are wrong 
You are just digging a hole here buddy and your anger has blinded you. Seriously relax a little and enjoy TBC.
The content was never authentic and the servers were buggy as hell.
Even then, the quality of guilds on those servers was extremely low compared to Vanilla and WotLK.
There’s nothing else to say man.
Keep going. I’m sure eventually even the kindest souls on this board will find start getting tired of reading comments from an egotistical moron.
The crazy thing about some of the comments in this thread are. TBC did happen, it’s part of history. In TBC Prot Wars were the big boi tank. On private servers they are the Min/Maxed big boi tank. Yet somehow this time around they expect history to be dramatically different 
They aren’t too far off thanks to Activision making Classic run with a skeleton crew. Have you see the beta?
He’s just overdosing on copium.
Weren’t you mouthing off about Feral Druids a minute ago?
You’re just a clueless kid with an ego problem slamming his tear induced comments onto a board that doesn’t give a damn about his worthless opinions.
This is somehow an argument for you?
What part of this discussion actually has to involve math and research for you?
What you’re describing is that anecdotal evidence from a clearly incorrect private server is the basis of optimization.
Can you move on? You’re wrong. You’re not even close to being correct.
i mean there’s nothing stopping you from putting the points in those talent trees.
Well idk, some other issues going on. I mean he/she is disagreeing with some very simple facts. How can he/she say Prot war isn’t crush immune with shield block 
When they literally are when naked. So a lot of things aren’t adding up. His views on Tanking seem very vague and leaving out a lot of specifics. Just better to stick with the facts.
Prot Wars requires the least amount of gear to start tanking because of how far ahead they are of the other tanks. The other tanks need the gear to scale up.
Fury prot was probably the most meme spec in all of the expansions and should just be left to history
Not to mention most bosses clearly need a time when you actually need to activate it to avoid getting the triple crush attack.
Scaling bugs are holding your precious Prot Pally MT dreams further back by the way. There is a bug with Seal of Vengeance stacks not scaling properly at 5 stacks. It scales at 5 stacks with the same coefficient as 1 stack meaning 80% less scaling on that DoT.
Get hit more than twice within a 5.5 second window and get Crushed.
How is this Crush immune?
Go cry into a towel.
Seal of Vengeance is literally Icing on the Cake for Prot Paladin. The fact that they can easily tank without SoV while also having access to it is way in their favor.
Bugs are bugs.
Who are you trying to argue with?
Burst mechanics usually come in 3 quick attacks. Blocking 2 of the 3 greatly reduces your chances of being crushed. It is highly unlikely the 3rd one will crush you.
Thus, why warriors will be so effective in mitigating burst mechanics.
As you are in the very sense of the word technically right. You also have no idea what you are talking about and clearly dont play a tank with a shield.
As apposed to Paladins who can effectively mitigate all of them?
Warrior isn’t incapable of tanking. He is just worse than Paladin.
This isn’t about whether or not someone wants to tank with Warrior.
When someone brings up a discussion about optimization, people will talk about the math.
The math says that Prot Paladin is just flat out better.
The reason why people didn’t see that in TBC is because Paladins were buffed way later on in tbc in patch 2.3+.
Either way, this discussion is over.
Warrior is just worse than Paladin. That is all.