My voyage to 60 and lessons learned

[Apatheist]

Not sure what you mean about warriors being much better tanks though? When we're talking 5-man instances, I don't really see much of an advantage?

I think you're underestimating how much damage reduction warriors receive from defensive stance, block and parry. Druids have a higher health pool and more armor but they take significantly more damage than warriors. On dungeon bosses warriors and druids will perform roughly equivalently but on those big pulls while you're level grinding or farming warriors will survive where a druid would have died. Not to mention the bears have no tanking cooldowns and you can't use consumables in form. No healthstones, no armor potions or engineering gadgets, etc.

Your AE threat as a warrior also ends up being better than a druids since there are a bunch of items like shield spikes, razor gauntlets, etc. If you can get your hands on a couple of https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=22...-reactive-disk they are incredible for AE threat. Or an item like https://classic.wowhead.com/item=13243/argent-defender. 50% Block for 10 seconds on big pulls would put you up to like 75-80% chance to block, each block reducing the incoming hit by 70-100ish damage multiplied by 10-15 mobs? It really adds up.