I mean, there's video out there of a paladin tanking in old Naxx, BWL, MC, AQ, ect, so the short answer to your question is no. The long answer is, no other classes could tank but it took them a LOT more effort to do so effectively. Need to know the class inside and out and lots of consumables. Druids and paladins CAN main tank, but warriors do it better. Perfectly fine as offtanks. There's a couple of guilds out there on those...other..realms running two ferals.
Kinda sucks that the whole "hybrids can only heal" misconception has survived this long.
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Just lol also (altho most didnt have it) thunderfury, also back in those days you asked the dps to kill in a certain order to maintain aggro (ofc in a pug shit goes wrong)
And no warrior didnt get oneshotted in the first 4 months on +3 packs i dont know where you get that nonesense from.
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Gear, paladin needed spell dmg to actually be able to hold aggro, not to mention they didn't have any taunt
Druids didn't have gear to do anything except innervate priest when priest is low on mana and BR in raids, i think druids were the most fucked class in vanilla wow, and for sure in pvp they were the most fucked
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I guess I'll say it again as I'm the only person speaking any honest truth about this games state during that time period, and people seem to have just passed right over it, only replying to bait posts.
Take it from someone who actually PLAYED vanilla, and played warriors and paladins, (reading half the comments in this thread makes it quite apparent who doesn't know what the fuck they're even talking about, GG)
Warriors were the only real tanks in vanilla because their tree *before we had talent rows, we had talent TREES* was the only tanking tree that gave them all of the toolkit they actually needed to effectively tank. Druid tanks had a lot of HP, yet had no defensive CD's. Pallies had okay CD's, but they lacked the ability to hold aggro on anything whatsoever. Warriors, however, had an *almost* complete toolkit that gave them what they needed to tank, thus warriors were the premier tanks in classic.
Paladin "protection" tree had a LOT of "protect your allies" spells, which were good HOLY spells actually, and druid "feral" tree was more or less just a cat/bear hybrid tree with no definitive playstyle. It was a mess. Due to this, paladins and druids weren't excellent at tanking at all.
Make no mistake, however - in vanilla, druids and pallies made fine off tanks. Back then, there was a CLEAR difference between your guilds 40 man MT (a warrior) and the OT (preferably another warrior lol), but druids and pallies could "hold aggro for a minute" while the real "tank" did something else, like kiting.
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Because when they designed vanilla they wanted specific classes to perform set roles. Warriors were the tanking class, priests were the healing class etc.
Great, now you guys have brought back my BC memories.
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Paladins around T5 gear were god-mode for going through heroics. Get a couple of warlocks or mages in decent gear and you could AoE smash your way through as if it was WotLK. It was fun at the start but I was kinda disappointed that they made AoE tanking the standard going forward.
No it was just really, really hard. As a warrior tank (no raid gear, some token gear from Zul'Aman and Sunwell patches) Shattered Halls normal was harder than pretty much every Heroic (except Shattered Halls heroic of course.)
Crushing blows iirc. Only Warriors and Bears, but Bears were just less-good Warriors.
I tried to tell some gent in another thread what Tigole and Furor did to Hybrids in Vanilla posted a bunch of links of conversations about them, comments made by them, actions they took. He basically just began repeating the mantra "they weren't in charge of classes" and ignored everything.
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