Plain simpel: Best Tank class?

[zehsebas]

The topic is simple.

What and why?

No trolls/flame/qq please.
Just answer honestly.

[ProphetNoata]

inb4 OMFG not this again.

Paladins

[jai151]

Quite plainly and simply...

There isn't one.

[Offhand]

inb4 grammar Nazi's see two different versions of "simple" and make an attempt at a clever joke.

[Zalmanusa]

100% avoidance rogue.

[killrdarknes]

paladin, roll one, you will not regret it.

[couic]

Please, kill the OP.... How many of these lame post do you need to understand: "It depends on the player, not the char!!!!!"

[Stormdash]

Beast Mastery tenacity pet ftw.

[Deleted]

i'll try to make a serious response...

each tank has it's own strengths and weaknesses.

death knights are great against bosses with magical damage or predictable damage spikes. they have a large number of cooldowns and depending on spec provide decent raidbuffs. due to lack of a shield, however, they tend to take more damage against fast attackers. also, their rune system sometimes makes picking up adds hard.

druids are great against bosses with a lot of magical damage or consistent heavy damage. their high HP levels (raidbuffed, druids have 15-20K more HP than similarly geared other tanks) and high armor makes them have a high EH (you could argue that paladins have similar EH due to AD, but that is for the rest of the argument). their downside is that even with savage defense, druids might have problems with some bosses that hit either really hard or really fast.

paladins have a number of advantages. they have the best threat in the game if played correctly. they are easy to learn and can effectively be played with 2 macro's and another button. due to holy shield, they can consistently avoid every attack made against them provided they are not faster than 1 per second. their ardent defender cooldown is passive, allowing for some slight errors. the downside is they are almost defenseless against spells and they are vulnerable to silences. also, because they have only 1 activated CD, they are rather weak when you need to chain them.

warriors have been great tanks so far. they came from the only tank in vanilla, to the best tank in TBC, to one of 4 viable options. they have a large amount of interrupts. their AOE threat is bursted and they have a rather fun priority system. they are difficult to master, but reward the time invested well with a rather dynamic rotation and much satisfaction. warriors don't have major weaknesses, but also don't have major strengths against bosses. they are a well-rounded tank. jack of all trades, master at none.

[MrKnubbles]

I like the Warrior. Quickly charge to your target, reflect spells, interrupt spells, aoe stun, aoe attack speed debuff and aoe ap debuff.

No mana to rely on, when you're tanking you should almost always have full rage and HS macros for rage dump.

[swissaccount]

paladin > druid > warrior > DK

plain and simple bb

[Anarchos]

Druids. When you play one you don't have all dpsplate users "steal" your gear. When you play plate dps you get your off-spec tank stuff faster =)