Are warriors losing their tanking edge?Follow

i played pre-bc and i started currently playing the burning crusade. It seems to me like other classes are starting to be as good at tanking as warriors. Maybe it's just me but it almost seems like warriors aren't needed as much as they use to. if u could please elaborate on pros and cons of warrior tanks, druid tanks, and pally tanks. thanks in advance.

To be honest I like it the way it is now.
Three vialable tanking classes each with its strengths and weaknesses.

If not for our drood OT and palla OT I would have been stuck with protection build 24/7. Now I just respec to it twice a week :P .

Warriors are still the tank class.

Still our GM refuses to try some fights without Palla tank and prefers other with drood tank. Still most MT of raiding guilds are warriors - and it is not because there are more warriors then ferals...

Each tanking class complements eachother. When we raid we usually have atleast 1 of each class. Warriors IMO are the best at boss tanking with a couple exceptions. For high burst damage a Druid weathers it better, and AOE tanking pally wins hands down. To answer your question Warriors are just as capable now as tanks as they were pre TBC.

Personally speaking, my burst and initial threat is ridiculous, and on bosses that require more than one tank (bloodboil) I typically start it off.

The only difference really being is I don't have as many "oh **** buttons" that a warrior has, as mentioned previously, nor can I take the high burst damage as well as a druid. But all 3 tanks are extremely good to have.

Our guild uses 2 well geared warriors, me as prot pally, and a feral druid. If someone misses a raid, its no big deal, as all 4 of us can tank kalecgos pretty equally. The druid seems to shine on that fight, but all of us seem to average out about the same. I can take the big hits, just not as well, and if I need a heal or something bad is about to happen, I'm usually screwed where a warrior can pull out fine.

I would never want just one type of tank, I think it's a huge factor having all 3 types in a raid. Especially since on certain fights where the paladin or druid aren't needed, they can do other things better than the warrior could if he wasn't tanking.

Did I mention I love my threat? Just wish I could take the same amount of damage as easily, but there are pro's and cons to each tank. I might be squishier than the other tank types, but I won't be getting pulled off of by the dps.

I don't think warriors are losing their "edge", I just think that there are more tanking options now, so it's more difficult to get into limited tanking spots. I was our guild's original MT for Kara raids, then I missed a day, and that was it for me. They had a feral druid for OT'ing, so I couldn't even really get into that spot. I just think that with the variety of tanks available for maybe 2 spots in a 10 man and 4 or so in a 25 man, it's tough to get work these days. There are a lot more places open for DPS, and it seems that everyone's desperate for a healer. Warriors can tank just as well as ever, but with improvements to druid and pally tanking, they're not the only game in town anymore.

they haven't lost their edge, but with droods and tankadins handling multiple mobs better, they're not used anywhere near as much. too many groups have passed me up in favor of a pali or druid. warriors do have more "oh ****" buttons that druids, but palis have their "can't touch me" button, and both palis and druids can heal themselves. warriors are still viable tanks, but don't be too surprised if you don't get picked up for a bunch of groups just cause you're prot spec.

tbh the only real competition i've had with tanking 5 mans is against pallies in heroics like shattered halls, and rarely in magister's terrace. otherwise people snatch up the first tank they see. since i've built up a decent stam set also (<21k health), i can do a fair job offtanking stuff like nalorakk or gruul, and i've found that with very careful outfit swapping to a dual wield setup, i can also generate threat in rage-starved situations than i could with a sword n board.

the simplest answer i can think of is that it was her first time in kara. druids can fairly easily out-threat warriors when they offtank simply because of the way their talents, procs and stats were designed. if it was her first time in there, then maybe she didn't know to watch her threat.

Thanks, Froman. That's interesting about the druids threat-generating capabilities. I have never been in a situation where I was tanking in the same place as one, so I'm unfamiliar with their comparative level of threat generation. I do find it a little strange that they are more effective at generating threat than a warrior on a single target, but cest la vie. Now I know, so in the future I can ask them to please lay off the threat abilities when they don't have a designated mob hehe. Thanks!