Druid > Warrior?Follow

i have personally tanked every single heroic as an arms/fury arena spec. successfully. prot is not necessary. a group with sense is. but that goes for any heroic.

/ditto. :)
Well, kara up until maiden. Which isnt alot I know haha. And some heroics.



Anyways:

Threat building is a negligible difference. A good warrior and a good feral tank will both have no problem holding mobs.

A simplified comparision of the primary feral tank in my guild, and the main tank, unbuffed:

30735 armor for druid. Thats around 74% physical damage reduction.
The warrior has 16k armor. Thats about 60% physical damage reduction.

Druid's avoidance: 31ish percent dodge.

Warrior's avoidance: ~25% Block, ~20% dodge, ~17% parry.

Health will most likely be in the same ballpark of around 15-18k. The main tank has 15874 completely unbuffed. The druid tank has less. Only 15084 WITH priest buff and mark.

Its easy to see where a bear will be most useful (against heavy hitting mostly physical dmg dealing bosses/mobs), and where a warrior is superior (everything else?). Warriors are the primary end-game tanks, due to being able to deal with damage with more than just oooodles of armor and health, and a bit of dodge. And, as already mentioned, warriors have "gnome-hit-the-fan" abilities. Shield-wall, last stand, intervene, etc.

actually, druids typically do stack a modicum of defense, up to the 415 mark at least. this isnt the 490 that warriors stack, but it does provide extra miss chance above and beyond the normal miss rate.

The funny thing is... yes, healers indeed like steady damage... which is why they love druids, because armor gives always the same damage reduction. It's avoidance that creates spikes. Remember that a crushing blow deals as much damage to a druid as a normal blow would to a warrior if they are roughly at the same level of gear.

Usually prot warriors (and not dps warriors, sorry, and keep dreaming) are MTing because:
- they have certain built-in advantages that are important in certain encounters, such as pushing crushing blows off the hit table (e.g. Prince) or fear resistance via stance dancing (e.g. Nightbane)
- their damage is way less than druids, so on fights were there are too many tanks it's better to let the druid dps and the warrior tank than the reverse

Now that we are done stating the obvious, can we move on with this silly troll once and for all?

Edited, Sep 15th 2007 3:55am by anathor