[WoW] Which tank is the best for Multiboxing heroics?

[BobGnarly]

It's definitely between paladin and DK, and I'm going to give the nod to pally. castrandom macros bring it close, but overall, the paladin is just more "fire and forget."

[Multibocks]

Use the search function, or use google. Seriously this question comes up 3 times a week and we all jump on the merry-go-round trying to pimp our choice for tank and disparage everyone that chooses differently. This game is so damn homogenized now you can pretty much use the blanket statement, "Pick whatever the hell you want for your group and it will be fine." Of course someone is now going to tell me how much their 5 priest or rogue group sucks.....

[Mercurio]

One consideration for you: In Mag horde we have a guildie who leveled his DK up first, geared him out (better geared than any of my 20 level 80s), and can tank just about anything.

Now that he's leveling up the rest of a team to do heriocs with, he's leaving all the time spent on his DK behind and starting to gear up a prot pally from scratch. He says prot pallies are just that much easier to play so he's shelving his DK.

[Diwa]

I have both but I prefer pally because of buffs, shield, resurrect, heals, threat handling and many others.

[wowphreak]

From what I understand druids swipe just became 360 which I think makes its a contender for easiest to tank with.

Here's my list order of preference

Pali one of the easiest to macro for one button spam, has kings or wisdom for regen.

deathknight Ebon Plaguebringer 13% damage increase this one yeh problem get the most outta of since yeh dont have a moonkin, anti magic zone

Druid for Gift of the Wild, ability to hot before charging in can be nice at the beginning when there lots of mobs .

Warrior spell reflect, shield wall, takes more to micro manage this class.

[puppychow]

One consideration for you: In Mag horde we have a guildie who leveled his DK up first, geared him out (better geared than any of my 20 level 80s), and can tank just about anything.

Now that he's leveling up the rest of a team to do heriocs with, he's leaving all the time spent on his DK behind and starting to gear up a prot pally from scratch. He says prot pallies are just that much easier to play so he's shelving his DK.

i have a 4/5 t7.5 pally and a 2/5 t7.5 DK and the DK is a better tank than the pally. Also much better DPS in my second spec. The only reason I'd choose pally is if you want to dual-spec tank/healer, a DK can't do that (however I'd argue a shaman as ele/resto is better). DKs also are better stats wise out the gate, my prot pally is 30.5k hp and my DK is now 33.5k hp, unbuffed. +3k hp and his gear isn't as good as my prot pallys.

DK tanking is insanely easy, you just rotate between 5 buttons as a frost or unholy tank, don't even need to lay down D&D as frost (howling blast). I use a /castsequence on my DK when spec'd unholy for tanking so I just have to mash one button. it does take 3-4 more hours to research and test the best glyphs/rotation for tanking, whereas a pally tank is just 3-4 buttons and you can mash them in any order you like.

Pallys are great tanks, DKs are just better. Its no difference at all in heroics or naxx but in ulduar the difference gets pretty big (more armor, better damage reduction cooldowns, death grip, chains of ice are huge).

Plus its a lot more fun tanking swinging a giant 2h axe/sword than it is a one hander and shield

[puppychow]

oh and here are the two tank macros I use

for DK unholy:
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=target Icy Touch,Plague Strike,Pestilence,Blood Strike,Scourge Strike,Death Strike
/cast Blood Tap
/cast !Rune Strike


for Paladin prot:
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castrandom Holy Shield,
/castrandom Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Light,Arcane Torrent,Divine Plea,Exorcism

neither are "perfect" or optimal but it lets me mash one button and keeps threat just fine Obviously these macros are when multiboxing only, when I solo either one I tank with individual buttons (and I tank as frost on my DK since its single target threat is very good and AOE threat is fine with howling blast).

[Stealthy]

Hey Puppy,

Could you link your armory for your DK? I'd be interested in checking out your frost spec...I'm assuming you've gone frost since 3.1?

Cheers,
S.

[Negativ1337]

What spec should i grab for my deathknight? I tried some crap with the talent builder and came with this:

http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc...30151013103150

I really have no clue if its good or not. I wanted to go frost at first but then i saw a lot of frost talents were to increase dps.

I prefer frost so if anyone can throw me a good frost spec i'd be happy If frost sucks now with tanking, then show me a good unholy tank spec

Thanks for the trouble,

Negativ1337

[Ken]

For the healer, a Druid tank is the easiest.
But in rare occasions, Druids are very hard to heal, because damage is sometimes done percentage-whise (like some mobs in Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom).
Damage done to a Druid is more stable and predictable and thus easier to heal.
Your Rebirth skill is quite useful, even while tanking.

A Warrior tank has more utility skills, but lesser DPS than a Druid. It also has a lot less HP (around 30k HP with good gear ... versus 40k+ on a Druid). A warrior gets spike damage: it can have full HP for a while until health suddenly drops. This unpredictible pattern is slightly harder to heal.

I haven't got much experience with other types of tanks. I usually don't really have a preference for tanks ... except for some encounters, where I prefer a Druid tank because of the added health.