Quote Originally Posted by Trushot View Post
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.