Most Fun and Best Tank for Casual

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Everyone plays WoW for their own reasons. I have been playing for 19 year… I’m over the hill and have kids so obviously my motives for playing WoW have changed.

My newest casual kick is soloing world content and casual pvp. I have been dabbling around with tanks lately for this endeavor. I have tried the protection paladin. I have a 60 monk and a 60 druid so two more tanks are available for me to level up as well.

What is the tank that is in the best spot right now for casual play? I currently like gathering huge groups of mobs and soloing world bosses. Which tank can do this the best while also being entertaining to do so?

All opinions welcome.

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I vote for a paladin.

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Nothing beats the feeling of throwing multiple avenger’s shield with divine toll. And it’s a good tank to boot. And has all other roles available.

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I think Paladin is what you’re looking for.

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Guardian. It’s easy. You get to thrash, thrash again, then thrash some more as you thrash your way up the dps meters. You are a bear, a gorilla bear, a rock bear, or a bear bear. Did i mention thrash?

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I would say Paladin. The shield toss interrupts mobs at a nice distance. Lots of AoE for Mob aggro, lots of Self Heals, and lots of Mitigation.

DKs are fun, but they require a bit more situational awareness.

Paladins are like : “shield toss, self heal, CDs - and if things get bad, bubble hearth”

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Warrior’s mobility can be really nice when doing world content, but in terms of straight tankiness and being an absolute BEAST in aoe, Paladin takes the cake.

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Wow, sounds like I may have nailed it with my initial pally! That’s good news :slight_smile:

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I haven’t played all the tanks yet, but for world content I love my Blood DK, I feel invincible, and I’ve always been into the DK “aesthetic”

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Bears are beasts. Bears have skin of bark and fur of iron and claws and teeth. Paladins aren’t beasts. They are tiny humans covered in flimsy armor to protect their squishy innards from falling out when a bear thrashes them.

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You’re absolutely right, they do.

And it works.

Between that heavy plate and the Light, those Paladins smash savage bears into bearburger meat for their next cookoff with their brethren.

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Those must not have been bears. Maybe a vulpera. Or worgen. It’s hard for paladins to see hiding behind their shields while they bubble hearth to safety after a real bear comes out thrashing.

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I noticed nobody recommended Brewmaster. That’s a shame, the theme of the spec has such entertaining potential.

edit - Just went back to the paladin after getting the druid up to 65. Man, the paladin just feels better… the aesthetics please me more and the sounds of the banging armor and bashing shields just gets the heart racin.’

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Sounds like the kind of denial I’d expect from an MMA Tauren.

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Bear is very casual friendly but boring
Pally is a solid choice all around
Dh is great but kindve finicky
Monk has button overload but good
DK is slow but never die.
Warrior also pretty solid all around.

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It has to be warrior.

Warrior is all around solid and easy to play. Always flooded with rage, shield block for physical damage ans Ignore pain for everything. They have selfhealing nice aoe damage huge aggro with thunderclap bleeds and revenge. They are also flooded with procs and resets

Warrior cds are straight forward and easy to use. Plus they have lots of mobility

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Since you mentioned casual pvp, bears are usually good for flags iirc.

Other than that id obviously vote pally.

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Blood is hysterically fun casually.
Brewmaster has a lot of personality.

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Gunbreaker
But in all seriousness
From a PvP perspective, there are only 2 real tanks in the arena setting and thats Guardian druids and Blood Death Knights.

Guardian druids can dish out tons of aoe damage and just never die, so their in the center of all the fights .

Blood Death Knights don’t dish out as much damage as the Guardian druid, or can mitigate and heal as much as the Guardian druid in pvp the Blood DK’s job in arena is to basically keep the healer pinned down behind a pillar with death grip, chains of ice, and other crowd control abilities they have. They are meant to disrupt and to break the unity of a team more so than just soaking / dishing out damage.

In terms of world content Warriors, Brewmaster Monks, and Vengenace DH’s are quite slow and can feel boring. Protection Paladins and Guardian Druids can dish out great damage and survive pretty anything the world content throws at them with the exeception of world bosses.

In terms of dungeons all tank jobs perform well with Guardian druids being at peak performance.

I would say the top 3 tanks just for general gameplay ranked is: Guardian Druid > Blood Death Knight > Protection Paladin = Protection Warrior > Vengeance Demon Hunter > Brewmaster Monk.

As you noticed and commented about the lack of brewmaster monks. The spec is not performing well outside the raiding scene compared to its other competitors. It is viable in all content, its just that every other tank in game pretty much beats them outside raiding.

I love Guardian druid and they have 2 nice builds for pve. The moon bear and the blood bear. Moonbear specializes in magic damage through moonfire as well as a new ability they get for going Moon bear. While Blood bear forsakes its magic path and fortifies / buckles down on its basics of bleeds.

The moonbear is great at raiding and does well for dungeons while the Blood Bear is actually considered the best tank for mythic plus due to its insane rage regeneration from bleeding tick damage that gives them more rage. So you could pull 3-5 mob backs and actually tank that.

Most people consider guardian druid boring, but i find it fun and simple :slight_smile:

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