Tanking Questions

[alcattle]

First, is tank the hardest role to play in WoW? I can deeppeess any herioc with my hunter, granted with better gear, but my DK is very hard. Seems like you have a lot more to watch when tanking.

Which class is easiest to tank with, either solo or boxing? I am specc'ed Frost DK and there are 6-7 things to watch in rotation besides watching the mobs like all tanks have to do.

[Seldum]

I think alot of people will say paladins is easiest to tank with?

Anyway, I use a druid tank and I'm quite fond of that.

[Mokoi]

Umm.. no healing is probably a lot harder.

A Paladin is a joke, just spam a castsequence and don't ever worry about it. I DC'd on Jarraxus in ToGC10 today and held aggro for over 60 seconds while DCd lol

Bears have a lot of aoe tanking and kick ass.

A DK just need to silence and DG things to him and then /lol his abilities all day while death striking and buffing his group with awesome.

Warriors suck.

=)

/love Fenril

[Svpernova09]

Paladins are the easiest, followed by bears. DKs are probably the hardest, and DKs seem to take a lot more damage than other tanks.

[Seldum]

I can't help but thinking.

A plate wearer which can cast spells hmmm OP

[crowdx]

I initially tried a DK as a tank with my original 5 man team and it was way harder than a pally tank, when I moved to the pally it felt like eazimode.
I would like to try my DK again later but as was stated there is a lot more rotations etc to watch for with a DK and he also seemed to take a ton of damage compared to a pally.

[Drizzit]

seldum, how do you tank with your bear (like rotation). Going for my badge gear for tanking next.

[VonHenry]

My main toon, before 5 boxing, is an 80DK. I've run DW Frost DPS, Unholy 2H DPS, Unholy PvP, and Frost Tanking (Both DW and 2H). So, please hear me when I say:

Run. Run fast and far away from DK Tanks! They are okay to solo, but still maybe the hardest tank to solo well. I can't even fathom trying to MBox with them as a Tank personally. The biggest is reason is they take damage in spikes (whereas a druid is a bit more smooth in taking damage IMO). You'll spend WAY too much time focusing on keeping a DK healed than other tasks.

As others have mentioned the Pally is so easy to tank with. You really CAN just macro spam 1 button and do just fine.

Lastly, I agree that healing is trickier/harder than tanking. With tanking, once you get the mechanics down, they are pretty much the same from there on out; now and then you'll have to learn a fight, but not a lot changes. It's about situational awareness, and reaction if things go awry (aggro moves, etc). Healing is situational awareness and prediction. If you are healing people based on "reaction", likely you're wiping groups, especially if you have a DK tanking

My 2 cents, your mileage may vary.

[outdrsyguy1]

pally's are the bomb for tanks. I started with DK, hated it, pally was ezmode. Go pally to learn all this stuff, you won't regret it. I also have druid tank which is decent ( i just basically geared him in a full deadly pvp set and he does fine for the most part).

[Bigfish]

My personal take on tanking difficulty is, from easiest to hardest, Paladin>Druid>Warrior>DK, though I only have a Pally and DK I tank with. DKs are hard because they don't really have much of a rotation going for them. Its doable, but not simple or ideal.

Healers are much worse though, because everying does damage a little differently, and with other people, they have varying degrees of how smart they are about taking damage.