Warning: Post 50 and no tank in your group. What to expect.

[wyrmdb]

From everything I have read, Paladins make great multibox tanks but eventually Warriors surpass them. How evident is that? I am early on in my multibox career. I am thinking of doing the traditional WPMMM group or War/Pal/3xMage. I even contemplated Bear, 4xHunter. Not sure if that is even any where near feasible. But I know there have been people on here that have hit 60 with their PMMMM and PLLLL groups so not so sure.

[Bradster]

From everything I have read, Paladins make great multibox tanks but eventually Warriors surpass them.

Warrior is the go to because for raiding purposes they don't die from crushing blows, where as pally doesn't have a gear set and talnets to prevent that death.

If I was running a melee team, I'd want a warrior tank. Shouts would buff and debuff the mobs hitting the melee team. Caster group? Pally all the way.

I acually have both Warrior and Pally and swapped them out for testing purposes. While Blessing of Kings only gives 10% stat buff, across the entire team boy can I feel it. My caster team is weaker with the warrior. I also find the utility of being able to use blessing of freedom is necessary some times. For just 5 man purposes Pally is great. If you intend to raid later, warrior.

Bear sounds fun! Thinking about doing that on the next team.

[Purpleflavor]

Not many boxers at all will be main tanking raids so crushing blows dont really matter much when considering tanks, but warriors do take significantly much less damage even in 5mans than paladins and that relieves a lot of stress on your healer. Though, paladins have so much more utility like salvation, resurrection, sacrifice wipe protection, healing spec for pvp, ect, you really really want at least 1 in your group either healing or tanking.

Priest are great for aoe healing but when you gear up a bit i think pally is the optimal choice. I find priests to be great non tank healers, but they just dont match up to a decent geared pally when healing tanks. Every alliance trinity group should run a pally healer imo.