Why do I not see many of you guys with a warrior ??

[Khatovar]

Makes me wonder what the point of wow having warriors is if they are not better tanks than hybrid classes are

Because people were sick of that mentality. Warriors are the only real tanks, priests are the only real healers, mages are the only real caster dps.... That died with Vanilla and for good reason. No one wants to play a game where you can't do things without the "proper" setup.

It's bad enough when no one wants to play tanks or healers. When someone actually did pick up a tank or healer that wasn't a pure class, no one would ever let them actually run as a tank or healer, only as support. Here is an honest to god, everyday situation my husband and I would have in Vanilla -

RandomDPS - LFG STRAT!!
Husband {tankadin} - We'll go
RandomDPS - LF2M STRAT! Need tank and heals!
Me {resto druid} - Um....we ARE tank and heals.
RandomDPS - ROFL!! Right!
You have been removed from the group.
RandomDPS - LFG Strat!

This is a game of min-max and Blizzard has spent a lot of time and effort to get away from the old mindset of "in a pinch, you can use hybrids to..." There is no longer "Pure" or "Hybrid" classes. There's just specs.

[Trushot]

I'm not against ya I'm with ya .... I think you misunderstood my intent of inquiry ...

The more I read the more it seems as if pallys are a way better choice for tanking than warriors

Paladins seem to be able to tank as well or better than warriors with pally aoe tanking

so with all the other cool stuff pallys can do in addition to aoe tanking better than warriors from what I'm reading j do not see a point to rolling a warrior in wow since it seems pallys tank just as well or better plus have all sorts of buffs and other useful things compared to warriors ... I'm trying to understand what the point of rolling a protection warrior is now when a pally just seems better I. Every way

am I kissing something or has blizzard relegated the warrior to nothing special and other classes can do it as we or better?

Because people were sick of that mentality. Warriors are the only real tanks, priests are the only real healers, mages are the only real caster dps.... That died with Vanilla and for good reason. No one wants to play a game where you can't do things without the "proper" setup.

It's bad enough when no one wants to play tanks or healers. When someone actually did pick up a tank or healer that wasn't a pure class, no one would ever let them actually run as a tank or healer, only as support. Here is an honest to god, everyday situation my husband and I would have in Vanilla -

RandomDPS - LFG STRAT!!
Husband {tankadin} - We'll go
RandomDPS - LF2M STRAT! Need tank and heals!
Me {resto druid} - Um....we ARE tank and heals.
RandomDPS - ROFL!! Right!
You have been removed from the group.
RandomDPS - LFG Strat!

This is a game of min-max and Blizzard has spent a lot of time and effort to get away from the old mindset of "in a pinch, you can use hybrids to..." There is no longer "Pure" or "Hybrid" classes. There's just specs.

[Khatovar]

Paladins seem to be able to tank as well or better than warriors with pally aoe tanking

so with all the other cool stuff pallys can do in addition to aoe tanking better than warriors from what I'm reading j do not see a point to rolling a warrior in wow since it seems pallys tank just as well or better plus have all sorts of buffs and other useful things compared to warriors ... I'm trying to understand what the point of rolling a protection warrior is now when a pally just seems better

The point is, there IS no "Better" anymore. All there is is different. Warriors can now AOE tank, in as much as there is AOE tanking anymore, as well as any other tank. Paladins can ST tank just as well as Warriors.

Single-player, any tank is as good as any other, the only thing that makes them "better" than another tank is personal preference.

For multi-boxing, all there is is ease of macroing. People are used to paladin tanks because that's what we've been using since forever, because we as multiboxers used to really need the AOE threat. Without the AOE threat that a paladin tank provided back in the day, there was a good chance adds would splat our squishies so fast that we may as well have pulled with them. That niche has been removed, now any tank can maintain AOE threat. So it's just down to what people prefer. Personally, I have no desire to reroll another team to bring up a warr tank, just like I had no desire to do it for a DK tank or a bear tank when that was all the rage here.

But with the way people are using multi-step macros, I don't see any reason that a warrior tank couldn't be played as effectively as any other tank choice. People do just fine using reaction-heavy DPS, and they don't even drive with them. Tank being the main screen allows much more flexibility to get in those things that you just can't macro or have to watch for.