Protection Warrior is fast paced and has a lot of swap talents for doing more damage or becoming tankier.
Doing a lot of damage as a tank is nice but remember the two golden words on the entrance to tank town: Don’t die.
lmao.
Paladin or bear, monk tank is “meh” and awful.
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They can be if they’re not standing in Consecration, using Shield of the Righteous often or using their defensives.
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yes and no, they have procs that help a lot but sometimes they get into a rut of back luck and they don’t get the needed procs.
Its like when all 3 stacks of Ironfur fall off a bear tank.
Honestly it would probably come down to thematics. Traditional Sword and Board, you got the Warrior and Paladin. More edgy classes you got your Blood DK and Vengeance DH. Then you got your Monk for Martial Arts, and Guardian Druid for nature theme.
I have spent more time with Guardian and Prot Warrior, and both are fairly easy.
It’s more or less what theme you want to spend your time playing around as the skills for defensives are varying from delayed damage mitigation, to heals, to extra armor, over shields, etc.
Guardian Druid.
They’ve got insane defensives and health pool.
It’s a very simple toolkit, which will allow you to focus on pulling, positioning, and mob control instead of what keys to press in what order.
I don’t tank. I’m a healer druid. I got on Guardian, set up my keybinds, and as long as we went to dungeons I was already familiar with, it was cake to tank. I had a guildie tank giving me advice over comms while we did it about where to put the boss and which packs to pull, but driving the actual bear was very intuitive and easy to learn.
Prot warrior if you want something to pick up and go.
But my spicy suggestion is bdk and here’s why:
With bdk you take a lot of damage and it’s your job to heal back up. Starting out there isn’t much risk of being one shot and because you take a lot of damage and then heal it back up you learn what hits hard better and faster than other tanks.
Paladin. Good mobility. Good oh dagnabit buttons. Put on the addon Max DPS and understand consecration needs to be up as often as you can and stand in it.
Blood is fun and easy…so is Guardian.
Brewmaster seems like they removed some of the fun from it a while back…dont really like it much as it is.
You have received a lot of useful answers and this is a question I have asked myself. This is my experience:
I was recommended to play guardian druid. However, I do not enjoy playing a druid because I basically have to be in animal form all the time and that, to me, is not as fun. So I went after prot warrior and prot pally at the same time. What I personally found out was that I was better “naturally” at warrior, but I ENJOYED paladin more. (FTR “naturally” does not mean I am a good tank lol…just means everything flowed easier for me).
It is my opinion to state, as others have, that you do not need to choose a tank based on what you want to do. I would, if you are able, recommend that you try a few to see which one you ENJOY the most, because THAT one will make you more inspired to learn the rotation, fix mistakes, etc. If you go after what is ‘top’ you may feel extra pressure to do well and that could diminish your experience.
For me, my ‘endgame tank experience’ is LFR raiding (which I have not done yet because I don’t feel ready). I do not have the time to commit to a normal/heroic raid schedule, and frankly I ENJOY LFR because it is such a mix of people, skill levels, and engagement. I’ve spent many hours in LFR learning fights and then teaching them to people. As a tank I could lead better and help newer players get used to the fights. That’s fun for me.
Anyway, I hope you find the spec you enjoy the most and have FUN tanking!
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I’m leveling up a BrM and a Prot Warr (already have bear, blood, veng, and prot pally at max). If you wanna destroy everything and enjoy your time leveling up, prot warrior is the way to go imo.
Bear is kinda boring and unflashy, blood might give you heart failure with its pendulum health bars, veng is… its fine, prot pal is probably my second choice for someone learning.
Prot or prot really. Can’t go wrong with either of these.
(the elephant will not be mentioned -.-)
I highly recommend you play protection paladin. Even just doing the core of avoiding bad and facing the mobs while being in your consecration is very strong.
I do play Blood DK too, biggest issue I think it runs into is it’s almost a solo tank, until it isn’t. One of the best ‘carry’ tanks tho if you like that.
Paladin.
Definitely has some of the best survivability and aoe threat in the game.
Ill forever tell the story of surviving 3 impales on deathwing because my guilds dps was hot garbage.
Did they suck? Yes. REALLY BADLY.
Was eating 2 impales normally a death sentence? Also yes lol.
A good tank can change the flow of the fight and extend it way past the point that should have been a wipe.
Great answer! Guardian is easy enough too and having a blast just moonfire spamming the new event on my tank. I play every tank class and Warrior for me feels better but Paladin once introduced was so much easier to Tank with when learning. Just less work than a Warrior but Blizzard has come a long way with Warrior since the old Sunder, Sunder, Healer heals. Start the Benny Hill music!
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