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

[Khatovar]

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.

[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.