djinux wrote:The bit of Tanking I have done on my DK i have found much more enjoyable than it is on my Pally. Although I think I am better at using the tools the paladin has available to tank I also have more experience with it as well. But I do really enjoy frost spec tanking.
I know this comes down to differences of opinion, but I can say I have a lot of experience tanking with a Paladin, Warrior and a DK. I levelled and tanked from 60-70 on my pally (who is now my healer), my warrior from 70-80, and my dk also from 70-80.
The pally was the easiest. Drop consecrate, ..., ..., profit.
The DK was the most boring. I'm sorry, but waiting on runes to come back up is terribly boring- which is why I don't play a rogue either. Drop DnD, disease x2 and then pestilence, then sit there waiting. And it was also frustrating that if something bad happened middle of a fight, if my runes and runic power were low, there was nothing I could do to save people. No aoe taunt, etc.
The warrior had best of both worlds and then some. It isn't easy; Thunderclap isn't nearly as good as consecrate or DnD, so there is a challenge keeping aggro on all the mobs from the threat hungry DK dpsers (Amy, I swear, get some threat reduction!). I'm always pushing buttons, there's no "down time" for warriors. If you aren't constantly pushing a button, even between GCDs (to keep heroic strike on), you're doing it wrong. That is fun. A lot of aggro-based "Oh @#$!" buttons, like group taunts in case you just blew your thunderclap and shockwave right as a pat aggros because of the hunter pets.
It's insanely fun and balls-to-the-walls, I don't pull with my gun anymore. I charge right in and smack all the mobs with an aoe stun to the face while the dps'ers and healer are like "whoa where'd he go?" Let's not forget too how well the warrior handles the caster mobs. (I'm sorry Erandus, but you are wrong, you are better tanking the caster in the Iron Council fight
) You have 2 forms of silence (shield bash, heroic throw via talents), 3 forms of stuns (which the iron council boss is not immune to), and if they are ALL down, spell reflect.
I could go on and on about how great the warrior is but I'm sure I'll get the TLDR posts afterwards. I may be biased, but I can at least say I've tried them all (short of the druid, but meh its just a warrior clone).
I will say the problem with warrior tanks is they are insanely hard to Master. 90% of the time if you pug a warrior tank they will stink. They are like the "Huntards" of the tanking classes. Hard to learn, even harder to master. Versus a paladin who's easy to learn and difficult to master. (I mean no offense to our pally tanks, it takes a great player to make a pally tank work as an MT in a raid, and ours [mainly Vailcor] has mastered it well. I don't know any of our other pally tanks, sorry!