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

[Trushot]

I think I've decided to roll a pally for tanking boxing team

But will continue to okay this warrior as a solo character ...
I'm on the road a lot with laptop and playing one toon only 3-4 months out of the year

after reading several hours on the net I understand how pally can be way better for boxing tank

A warrior has a lot of reactionary moves; the mob dodges one of your attacks and you can (forget the name) which auto hits for some damage.
If you dodge, parry or block an attack, you can do another type of move, which is beneficial to use at every opportunity.

You have abilities which can only be used in one stance or another.
If you're willing to stance dance, which many warriors are not willing to do...
Well having a lot of tools is very nice.

Balance that against a tank with a fixed rotation, and limited "proc" abilities.
I can mash a single button for a Druid, Paladin or Death Knight, and get up to 75-80% efficiency compared to one-boxing the same class.
With the one-button mashing of a Warrior, I'm at 50-60% efficiency.

You can drive with any tank very well.
As the main toon, they all work so it is a preference call.
Still, closer to maximum efficiency, without needing to think allows you to concentrate on other things.



As a tank, I like the:

DK because of Death Grip, and the extra healing from Rune Tap and/or Death Strike. Path of Frost is very nice utility in a lot of battlegrounds. Also very high DPS in relation to other tanks is a bonus.

Pally because of the choice of buffs (Stats vs Attack Power & Mana Regen), an aura of choice such as Resistances, extra Armor or increased Mount speed. This class can Rez or Divine Intervention (save from a wipe) another Rez capable class. The immunities or redirecting damage to the Pally is a bonus. Fairly easy to macro (1 button spam) and decent AoE, although that seems less now than in previous expansions. Can dual-spec to a strong healer too.

Druid because you're a full DPS spec and Tank spec in the same toon at once. Your DPS is very strong as a tank. Your toon can Cat Form for faster kills and Bear Form for survivability often bouncing between the two rapidly. The buff 5% stats is strong. Battle Rez, and normal rez are nice options. An all druid team rocks, and you can dual-spec to any other role. For non-mixed teams (ie, all Druids) I love instant flight form.

Warrior brings a fairly strong tank, but you need to manage a lot more things to be as effective. Your dual-spec, is pretty useless to a boxing team (as is the DK's, both dual-spec to damage only). Your buff (shout) is attack power or a bit of health, which isn't bad but not nearly as strong as the other tank options. If you were one-boxing a toon, as well as five-boxing this might be a very good choice.

[Crayonbox]

khatovar beat me to it.

I've played a warrior MT for almost 5 years in WoW and I played a Cleric in EQ for almost 6. Through all that I've been boxing and when I started to heavily multibox in WoW, I went to pally tank because of its ease. I personally find warriors to be more entertaining to play solo, but for boxing, nothing really beats how easy it is to tank with a pally :P

*btw, my guild paladin tanks cried foul when I told them the reason I was using a pally tank for my teams. They though I was doing it because I finally realized that pally tanks were "better" pfft~ i say! :P

[Trushot]

khatovar beat me to it.

I've played a warrior MT for almost 5 years in WoW and I played a Cleric in EQ for almost 6. Through all that I've been boxing and when I started to heavily multibox in WoW, I went to pally tank because of its ease. I personally find warriors to be more entertaining to play solo, but for boxing, nothing really beats how easy it is to tank with a pally :P

*btw, my guild paladin tanks cried foul when I told them the reason I was using a pally tank for my teams. They though I was doing it because I finally realized that pally tanks were "better" pfft~ i say! :P

Im glad u and khat replied

I think after reading for hours on end im seeing that pales are just easier to box as a tank it seems

But i a have had such a blast on this warrior so far I'm going to level him solo when I'm on the road with my laptop

And use a pally for tanking boxing team ... Although i may switch them back and forth to see how much mire demanding the reactive would be using a warrior ...


But don't the extra buffs you get from pally really give them an edge when choosing a tank as well ... Or am i reading to much into the pales buffs and spells they bring to table in addition to tanking

[Khatovar]

But don't the extra buffs you get from pally really give them an edge when choosing a tank as well ... Or am i reading to much into the pales buffs and spells they bring to table in addition to tanking

It really depends, you can't look at a single class individually in a mulitbox team. While a pally may have more buffs, buffs do not stack and may be redundant based on what the rest of your team brings to the table. Some buffs may be totally worthless for the majority of your team.

http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/

[zenga]

On a sidenote: technically speaking warriors are hybrids as well, they dps and they tank. Mages, locks, hunters & rogues are the only 'pure' classes.

[Tight]

I remember it being something like this..

Warrior tanking>> CC the skull then dps the cross, then take out the star and then finnish off the skull.

Palladin tanking>> ok first we pull this room then the next room.

[blast3r]

I like a Pally because it is easy to manage, holds aggro good and a lot of other things. I have a lvl 80 pally team that are waiting for another pally team at 44 or so. I find I can solo some bosses (after team gets wiped from some horrific thing). They are survivors. Can't wait to get my lowbies leveled. Want to spec them all ret and level them in AV. 10 excorsisms? ouch.

[thefunk]

slightly off topic, but does anyone play fury warrior? I solo levelled one last year to 70 and LOVED the 2 two-handed weapon (titan's grip) talent. It was proc heavy but with the 2-step, wondering if it's achieveable?

[Bigfish]

With Burning Crusade, paladin tanks became not only viable, but also prefered due to their synergy with casters, where they benefited from spell power and could provide mana buffs.

They've since balanced away from that, but they still maintain a a special spot in people's minds as a hit-it-and-forget-it tanking class.

Of course, this lead to further rebalancing of other classes, and at this point, Warrior is a very powerful tank I would rank up there with Paladins. They have plenty of AoE threat now, arguably better so due to thunderclap sharing rend and cleave being cleave.

I think the only reason you don't see more warrior tanks boxing is that people generally don't try new things in preference to the tried and true formulas. But Warrior tanks work and they work very well, so if that's what you want to run with, go for it.

[Toned]

I've used all 4 Tank classes in different group combinations. I lean towards Dks and Pallies. Bears and Warriors work fine, but i just don't like their playstyle.