Everyone loves Shamans with a Paladin tank there is no doubt about that.

Thing is I think Paladins are so boring to play, mostly just auto swing and a few spells every once in a while. I think the Warrior is the superior tank period. But as a multiboxers we don't have any CC (playing with shamans that is). I'm not saying that a paladin isn't a great choice just that the warrior is a great alternative.

It's all about AoE tanking, Paladins are king at this but they are very vulnerable to various situations, such as silence. As a Warrior there is not a single 5-man encounter that should pose much of a problem, all you need is the right tools.

I use 1 macro for tanking which is a mouse-over tanking button:

Code:
#showtooltip Devastate
/castrandom [target=mouseover,equipped:Shields,harm,nodead][] Devastate, Revenge, Shield Slam
as you can see I have not included Heroic Strike in this and that is because it is not spammable. So the Idea is that you use HS on you main target while you use the other spells on the mouse-over target. Warrior tanking made easy. And if you should be unlucky and lose aggro you have a 10 sec taunt (8sec with talents), Challenging Shout, and Mocking Blow, all that combined with Thuderclap and Cleave will make the warrior the superior tank

Threat stats you want as a warrior:

-Expertice (humans will get a great boost with Maces or Swords, Orcs with Axes)
-Hit rating
-Shield Block Value and NOT Shield Block Rating (this is more a palandin stat)

Effective Health Theory:

As a warrior you want a HUGE health pool, avoidance is great but stam and armor is much better. So fill up every gem slot with 12/15 stam gems only exception is the meta gem in which you'll put a 18 stam gem Enchant everything you can with stam. Cape with armor/defense/dodge this is up to you. Gloves, you should put +10 stam here as well, but if you feel you could use a bit more threat put a +2% threat enchant on you gloves. If you out gear the content you are doing put a SBV on your shield instead of stam.

The reason for the huge health pool is simple, unless you can be uncrushable (102.4% avoidance/mitigation), is that you will get those huge hit and since you have put avoidance gems instead of stam gems you'll die. beside it's cool running around with 17K hp self buffed.


With the Warrior the pulls are easier, (Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer, easy to get and it will last a long long time), make sure to pick up a fast thrown weapon for those fast pulls.

The only downside I can think of is the gearing up (this goes for palandins aswell, worst for them perhaps), it will be a bitch, one solution to this is to grab Blacksmithing, and craft the BoP items. The PvP shield with a shield Spike is a great place to start. After that head to Karazhan and pick up some stuff there.

With a warrior tank you will never be able to slack, you will be buttom smashing constantly, nonstop action!!

If someone with Wiki savvy would please add my macro to the warrior section I'd be a happy man, it's way to empty in the warrior section.