Originally Posted by
Cronovey
Not sure why everyone is talking about these different loot systems when it has nothing to do with the question being asked. The question was: "What role should get loot first?", not "What type of loot system should we use?".
To answer the question, most guilds are generally prioritizing DPS players right now although this may change in Legion. With the amount of cooldowns that are (or were) available to tanks, stacking loot on them didn't make much sense, and higher DPS allows raids to pass over some important timers in fights to make them much easier to do. The faster a boss dies, the less healing is required on the tanks so they aren't really taxing healer mana any more either.
Keep in mind that this may change with Legion however, as most tanks have had a large portion of their active cooldowns removed. I know that on Blood DK, I lost a lot of things I used either for mitigation or to regain runes in the form of Icebound Fortitude, Empower Rune Weapon, and even the old Army of the Dead that gave damage reduction while channeling it, and I'm sure the other tanks received similar pruning so it may be wise to throw a few pieces to tanks if there are hard hitting tank damage abilities in an upcoming boss fight or two (I know Spellblade Aluriel hits tanks like a truck from alpha testing, and Il'gynoth has a large add that needed tank swaps with cooldown usage, but these fights may have changed since the last time I did them) but overall your best bet is (in general) upgrading the DPS right now, although I would avoid stacking one player with all the loot.