Originally Posted by
Tehterokkar
DKs are the worst tanks at the moment when it comes to progression, their damage intake is way too high while their survivability doesn't scale that well.
OT: Paladins are the strongest, they have the most reliable Physical mitigation ability that has a very high uptime in BiS gear(Our Prot Pala is 542 iLvl with 17.6K Haste with 4set, he has hc-tf primo gloves + hc ret tier chest also).
Other tanks(Monks to a lesser degree) have to rely on Dodge/Parry/Block RNG more for their survivability and don't have as reliable mitigation for big hits, such as Nazgrim Execute which was mentioned in this thread, and they have to use a CD. Monks are different in a way that they don't have "active" mitigation as other tanks do, they just do their rotation to keep Shuffle up 100% and purify stagger when it gets too high or time it with big hits.