What to Tank with

[Drizzit]

i don't know maybe 4 locks and a priest will be able to do heroics no problem. Demon form is now 600% of your armor lasting 45 seconds with a 5 minute cd. Depending on your pulls and how long they last they can chain demon form and we all know locks have no down time. But if each pull takes about 1 minutes (20 seconds to get to the mob/setup/pull/loot) and 45 seconds to kill the group that is 65 seconds. With 4 of them that is 260 seconds (about 4.33 minutes) so after 4 pulls you only have to rest 30 seconds which you can use to lifetap/heal and have healer drink if need be. Boss fighting might be a pain though, you might want to wait the 5 minutes after the last pull so all 4 can do demon on boss.

[Catamer]

I worked up a 5x shaman team and I loved them ( still do )
the stoneclaws with only LB ( not chain) for crowds and most bosses go down easy with 5x dps and elementals for tanks.
however, I have finally got a protection pally up to 70 and put at least the spell mace from pvp on him and he rocks.

crowds are so much easier with the pally that it usually doesn't bother me that the boss takes a little longer to drop.
For some reason I have found it easier to micro manage the pally than to micro manage my stoneclaws.

I love to watch crowds beat on him with some healing from the shaman.
nothing like running your pally around in a circle on his horse to round up huge crowds, works great in BM and when I do the sun furry attack plans.
you can't do that with 5x shaman because if they kill using thier totems only it doesn't give you credit for it, but a sinlge concecrate from the pally and 4x exploding totems give you credit every time.

just a warning though, I find my pally is a mana whore, he needs huge amounts of either mana biscuits or other such item to refill him before each fight.

[TheBigBB]

Warriors will be slightly better technical tanks come the xpac from a couple of new AOE abilities, but paladins provide more group utility. Unless you have another paladin as your healer or something, running with a pally tank giving out kings and auras to your group will make you a lot stronger than a warrior would overall. Also, the paladin's pulls are SO easy with just tossing out a chaining shield and an AOE consecration that stays put so that even if you miss with it inititally, mobs who step onto it still get hit.

But if you got a pally healer, go for the warrior if it's a raiding main. Just run the warrior in and build aggro for a little bit before DPS.

[roddo]

i don't know maybe 4 locks and a priest will be able to do heroics no problem. Demon form is now 600% of your armor lasting 45 seconds with a 5 minute cd. Depending on your pulls and how long they last they can chain demon form and we all know locks have no down time. But if each pull takes about 1 minutes (20 seconds to get to the mob/setup/pull/loot) and 45 seconds to kill the group that is 65 seconds. With 4 of them that is 260 seconds (about 4.33 minutes) so after 4 pulls you only have to rest 30 seconds which you can use to lifetap/heal and have healer drink if need be. Boss fighting might be a pain though, you might want to wait the 5 minutes after the last pull so all 4 can do demon on boss.

I doubt this would work. You'd need some serious armor on your warlock even with the 600%, and they'd still have no parry, block or mitigation compared to a true tank. I'd imagine bosses would totally destroy a lock, and multi mob pulls would also. While It would be nice, I think this will end up being a pipe dream. Its the same reason thier pets can't tank heroics now.

[moji]

Me Tankadin:
Chain pulling? Check.
"next to no CC"? I use no CC at all. I win.
No drinking? Pretty close to that. I usually only drink on Bosses.

So..... the only difference is the "next to no CC" vs "no cc". Paladin wins.

Honestly, I give the mage a sheep to give him something to do if he likes opening up with pyroblast.

and what about fun? challenge?

MY TANK R BETTAR!!1!! RAR!!!1!11!1one!!