Group makeup will be War, Druid, Sham, Rogue, Hunter. Which would be better for tanking dungeons while leveling?
Heroic dungeons don’t exist in vanilla, so you can get away with either. Just adjust your aggro generation according to which class you pick as your tank.
I will say that supposedly, several people have stated that leveling prot warrior is literal hell. So make of that what you will.
That is solo as you just do no damage or have any utility.
Honestly it depends on each player. Ehat are the druid and warriors expectations for raiding? Will the druid be ok respeccing to heal at 60?
Leveling prot isnt bad during initial server rush, as theres oportunities to group for quests constantly. Ive leveled prot twice for what its worth. That said, you dont really need to be deep prot spec to tank unless you want to, especially if youve got two healers.
Bears are fun tanks, and warrior dps is ridiculous, so bear tank warrior dps shaman heals is a really solid choice. But, your bear is going to need to pick up healing gear as they approach 60, given that feral raid spots are extremely limited. Likewise, the warrior should pick up tank gear along the way even if they are rolling dps.
5 mans are doable with warriors, druids, and even paladins.
Some you dont even need a tank for and can have a rogue/shaman or even a strong pet tank if you have a ton of DPS.
Raids will see mostly warrior tanks (uncrushable) with druids as offtanks. Druids can main tank some raid bosses.
I’m not too worried about the raid implications as we will handle that when the time comes. Just looking for the best roles for each class for our leveling experience. Static group and yes Sham is healing.
Druids are going to be the easiest to gear for threat early on so you’ll probably have more luck with a bear tank until the warrior gets geared up.
TBH some of my fondest memories of vanilla were dungeons with less than optimal makeup. Like you mentioned, a hunter pet as the main tank, or using the musical aggro game where everyone takes turns using cc as they get aggro, or the really skilled bandage spec rogue who could main tank every normal 5 man. The odds were against you but you somehow pulled it off.
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You could have the Druid and Warrior switch or alternate tanking through the dungeons.
Protection is unnecessary (and not advised) in Classic until you are doing progression raiding at 60. Arms or Fury (31/5/15, 31/20 or 20/31) tank just fine leveling to 60 and collecting pre-raid BiS gear.
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Whichever answers first, druid if they both do IMO, unless the warrior outlevels the druid significantly (he’ll pull all the threat anyway if he does). Dungeon’s aren’t exactly cake, but most groups of 5 that include a healer can clear most dungeons. I ran a few where we had the pets do the tanking even, most memorably an absurd run with 4 warlocks and a priest.
Leveling as prot is difficult, but fury warriors make fine dungeon tanks. I cant speak for bear dungeon tanking, but I can say I played alot of vanilla as a healer and never had a bear tank. There is not an abundance leather gear that is going to help you out with that. All of the gear is gonna support cat or tree. Your healer will love you if you choose the warrior.
Dungeons it doesn’t matter who does what as they both do fine. Druids tend to do better on multi target though.
Druid should tank so that the Warrior can cleave. If the Warrior ever needs to tank in a pinch, they only need to equip a 1H, Shield, and go Def. Stance - no talents needed at all.
this. I leveled in vanilla as arms and just kept tank gear in my bag and tanked literally every dungeon I ever ran, and it was ALL of them, MULTIPLE times. you dont need to spec prot unless you are main tanking raids, and even then, I got away as arms tanking in mc, bwl, zg, aq20, and offtanking in aq40, etc.
Go back and forth. Feral can be DPS with tanking talents, and can be the fall-back maintank if you’re having trouble, but the warrior can tank with a DPS spec now and then too.
I’ve played multi-role characters primarily every expansion (outside BfA; didn’t buy it,) and switching now and then is very welcome after doing one thing for a long time. Some people only wanna do 1 job, and that’s fine, but you guys have a good group for allowing swaps.
Heck, the druid can even heal now and then if they have a healing set.
That’s not what you asked though, so my ‘real’ answer to your question is:
Whoever wants to tank more should tank, but the warrior should collect tanking gear for later.
Probably.
Druid is a nicer tank in the lower levels than warrior because you can just swipe spam and effortlessly hold up to 3 mobs. They’re also less gear dependent. If you have both classes, warrior is far better for DPS. The downside is that the warrior’s damage is so much higher the bear might struggle to keep aggro over it, where as a druid’s pitiful damage is quite easy to hold over. But if you want to plow dungeons, get your warrior a 2h, windfury, and spam cleave/whirlwind.
Druid has a smoother time, warrior is more complex to use effectively especially in the early game and if you end up soloing stuff on your offtime, soloing content as a warrior, especially prot, will be literal hell on earth.
It depends on what you intend to do in the late game, if you want to MT raid content later on, warrior is the safer/only bet.
Given the shaman is healing, definitely have the bear tank and the warrior DPS. You could do warrior tank druid DPS, but the DPS potential for the druid just isn’t as high as with a warrior imo.
I assume it a group of friends.
My suggestion would be to let the Druid go ferral and tank dungeons while leveling…
Because the warrior can be DPs out of dungeon and can solo quest like that. And Ferral druid can go cat DPS when solo and still able to solo quest.
that would be ideal for everyone involved.
Druid imo, if you know what you are doing, have the correct gear and spec.