Lookin to gear up an alt to tank alt keys with friends. Which tank is the most laid back and easy to play in the 12-18 range? Simple and hard to fail at rotations are what I’m lookin for.
Main is a monk currently so other than monk i guess.
Warrior, pally, Druid, DH, DK?
Druid is mechanically very simple. Also can do all the pug-unfriendly affixes. Also has bres.
BDK is the easiest imo, but I maybe biased. Druid is also a solid choice for easy rotation.
Druid or Paladin
If you’re just focusing on yourself, super easy and slow skill entry
But also gives you the ability to help the team more later on once you get a hang of things
BRM is another forgiving one, just not popular for w/e reason
Paladin is easy and fun.
Drawback would be that they move slow.
Really slow.
Another plus, you get a shield to transmog.
I agree. I like the BDKs toolkit that allows you to ignore mechanics with anti magic shell, deaths advance and purgatory. You have a lot of forgiveness.
With pally, you get wings
Pallys also have a brez. And I think it’s better than a Druid. It’s instant cast and does not remove you from your tank form
Druid does have stealth
I play all specs of Monk, have played Bear and Blood this season.
This may sound controversial but I highly highly recommend blood for that particular M+ range. The sheer amount of control you have saves the party from so much pain.
Is it afflicted week? Deathcoil
Is it incorporeal week? Control undead and enjoy them now debuffing boss damage instead.
People not kicking a caster mob so they join the pull group? Literally grip them.
Multiple? Abomination limb.
Useless healer? Heal yourself through your rotation.
Dead dps? Brez
Bad at staying alive? Purgatory
Mechanics? That’s what AMS is for
Party mechs? AMZ
Blood does reach a point where mob damage can lead to very difficult to manage spikes but they are absolute gods in that key range.
Just saying if your main is brewmaster and you’re good at that, you’re probably going to find every other tank easy.
Prot paladin is the easiest tank. All of the silences and ranged attacks make it easy to start tanking. They also have tools to deal with all affixes and carry groups. Stay away from BDK and Brew. Both fun specs, but they require more knowledge and planning than Prot paladin.
Yeah about 22-23 blood gets VERY iffy about our health lol
Well brewmaster is the easiest tank to master/learn and the bonus is they can solo all raid bosses up to mythic Farrak without breaking a sweat.
I’m tanking for the first time this season and I chose paladin. I’m having a blast honestly and didn’t know I would like it that much.
I can off heal (coming from a main healer is super fun)
Right now I’m tanking +5-10 range and my survivability is great.
I think at the level you wanna play, you could pick any tank. Just go with the one that you like the most and have fun 
I’d pick dh.
You get a cheat death, tons of mobility, spikes are an even easier active mitigation than iron fur, your big defensive is a pretty short CD and very powerful, and your damage, passive healing, and AOE stops are top notch.
Most importantly, building and spending fury directly results in solid healing for DH without some weird what-if mini game. Dks can get screwed on runes, druids passive healing from ursocs is not very self sufficient, paladins need to spend carefully, monks rely on procs, warriors can’t even read and frankly shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a dungeon of any difficulty.
Only the Druid comes close on pure simplicity, but their lack of mobility in bear, lack of abilities that feel good/impactful to press and lack of transmog all get really painful by the end of a season.
DHs outclass everyone, even monks, for mobility, and mobility is always fun. They outclass everyone, even paladins, for making casters stop casting, and that’s good for not wanting to get good at kicks.
This isn’t too say the other tanks aren’t great, but paladins and dks have a lot of defensive CDs to learn. Monks have few CDs but they still suffer from being niche in usefulness (excuse me while I zen med the one thing I can zen med in this instance). Bears have a medium amount and they’re universally useful.
But DHs? It’s pretty much just meta. In terms of defensive CDs, active mitigation and rotation, they really are the easiest.