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.

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”).

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.