Who to use as a tank......

[Spicymchagis]

I am trying to decide what type of toon i want to tank for my 4 elemental shaman..... i need to lvl from square one so i'll wind up boosting and junk....



So Feral Druid or Prot pally? Post opinion's or reasons. Thanks

[Mac]

in before furs, search is your friend, lots of threads on this topic here.

Prot pali = ezmode for multiboxing, anything else is viable, just harder. so, up to you what you want to spend your energy on.

[Marathon]

Would be a interesting to try a druid tank.

[Ðeceased]

Either would do you pretty well I have a lvl 70 druid myself (feral for lvling ) and tanking with them is very easy high single target threat and some goodish multimob threat pallies ofc are the kings and queens of mass threat all-round

a few things for you to consider

Druid:
-High Armour (will take quite a beating tbh ^^)
-High HP
-can switch to dps if you want (or healer or caster with spec)
-spellschool can't be shut down (paladin could be sometimes I've you don't watch out - although pallies have mostly instants anyway, so it would take some doing)

-Very limited buffs
-a bit more ability spamming then with a pally
-no magic or disease dispelling (although can curses)
-vulnerable out of bear form (if you need to heal or whatnot - not the case with a pally)

Pally:
-reliance on protection gear as well as spelldamage gear to be effective (although epic gear is amazing in both respects)
-can run out of mana (threat goes way way down) again more of a gear issue. When raiding the damage you take and mana gained from healing usually means you wont run out though.

-Great Buffs (as well as gains more from shammy totems) (blessings, auras, judgements)
-insane tps from the word go (the mana dependency is also a strength )
-less stress when it comes to tanking (due to ability cooldowns - holy shield will keep you protected for a while whilst your shammies dps)
-invulnerability at times


I may just give my lvl 70 druid a run-through see what it's like tanking with him

[Ughmahedhurtz]

If you're on a PVP server, consider that with a druid, you can stealth up when another druid or rogue is annoying you.

[Malt]

Protection Paladin is literally a 1 or two button win for a totem team. My current pve group is tackling SM right now and I am discovering the joys of righteous fury and consecration. Holy smack it's effective. My team isn't the cookie cutter totem team-what with the arcane mage for pbaoe and missiles and one of the shaman specced into restoration-but so far they've been performing very well together.

[Ziran]

Having leveled two similar teams to 70 one with Paladin tank and another with Warrior tank I wholeheartedly recommend a Paladin tank for PvE. It was about 10x more fun with Paladin.

Trying to keep agro on multiple mobs with warrior tank and multiboxing is possible but very painful. And since this is something you do every pull it just became a great PITA. The warrior tank is easier and much more straightforward to gear up and it actually simpler vs 1 mob (most bosses) but this comes nowhere near compensating for multi target tanking.

I much prefer the fast and loose approach possible with a paladin tank. Just grab a bunch of mobs and blast them away. I did not even bother much with CC until I hit heroics.

The druid tank is something in between the warrior and paladin but I do not have much personal experience.

Ziran

[yarr]

prot paladin if you want to have fun, and concentrate on everything except tanking (i.e. positioning, dps, heals, dispels, boss abilities, interrupts)

feral druid if you enjoy a "Challenge" and want to spend more than 1/4 of a brain tanking

seriously, pally = ezmode tanking, especially on a shaman team with no CC, you will want good multitarget threat, which paladins excel at.

I personally use this macro for my main tank button (keybound to my shamans' lighning bolt button):
/castsequence reset=10, Seal of Righteousness, Holy Shield, Judgement

I click consecrate whenever i feel it's neccessary.

[Knytestorme]

Would be a interesting to try a druid tank.

from what was said at the wwi panels, this or a war will be as effective a tank in WotLK 5-mans....something about dropping the number of mobs per pull to reduce reliance on CC or Paladins and let stranger group compositions be able to beat the dungeons too