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Protection Paladins – still top choice for tanking

Posted by Tepisor in Uncategorized on 11 7th, 2008 | Comments

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At least according to my readers.

Almost two months ago, I asked a very simple question:

When doing normal or heroic 5-mans, what tank do you prefer?

The results are as follows:

I’m very glad we won by such a big margin. It gives me confidence our role has vastly improved and we have a great future ahead of us.

Thanks to all the 323 voters. Stay tunned, a new poll will be here soon.

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Comments to “Protection Paladins – still top choice for tanking”

Rob says:

November 7, 2008 at 8:53 am

You ran this poll on this blog…. a blog for paladin tanks…

O…K…

IMO right now, you can take any tank, taking a warrior is much faster as they dont need to drink, do more dmg, and generate more threat on single and multiple targets.
Any tank is ok, but warrior is king.

Tepisor says:

November 7, 2008 at 9:06 am

@Rob – Yep, I ran it here, but not all my readers are Paladin Tanks

As for the “warrior is king” or warriors do more threat/damage part … I prefer not to get into an argument, because I’ve faced many opinions like this and I countered them all before. Pretty tired to do it again. I’ll just let Paladins speak for themselves. It all comes down to skill in the end.

And notice my question: it wasn’t about 25-man raids (where I guess you state that “warriors are kings”).

rob says:

November 7, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Just taken from my experience right now and the thoughts of the paladin tanks in my guild, if you want to check their gear you can – eu quel’thalas Nikachelle and Taciri.

we recently ran za which we cleared many times before the patch, with me (Linmao) tanking we had 17mins left on the timer when we got the 4th chest.
Next week we used 2 paladin tanks and things were just slow, the dps had to hold back, the paladins had to drink, they couldnt seperate the bears in front of nalorakk because of the aoe taunt and nature of their abilities, which wasnt a problem anyway because of their gear. the nerf, and the general skill of our healers.

Right now, as it is, in 5mans, 10 mans and 25 mans, and this is just in my experience, warriors are amazing, high on damage done, aoe tanking no problem, and single target boss tanking hitting 2.5k tps.

Didnt mean my post to be as it came out, but your poll looks like it was based alot on pre patch thoughts, where you would always take a pally tank over anything else because of the speed and ease of aoeing the trash without having to worry about cc.
well, thats no more with improved thunderclap and shockwave, reduced cooldown on challenging shout etc.

In the end, I think its about equal, whether you take a warrior, pally or druid its just about the same, except maybe a little quicker with a warrior.