The three things people say about Paladins is they can't taunt, they don't have a big defensive spell, and their threat is bad because they run OOM.
On a fight where taunt is irrelevant, they aren't any more or less functional.
They don't have a big defensive spell, but how tanking works also needs to be considered. Not sure how many people in here have ever actually tanked in Classic or a Mythic tank in retail. I've done both for a long time. If a Warrior can do it without even using tanking gear, it is at least worth discussing why a Paladin in full tank gear wouldn't be as good if they can produce MORE threat and potentially take less spiky damage.
The threat thing is now no longer an issue because they can create a threat ceiling faster and larger than a Warrior could in the same amount of time. Not to mention, the threat from Blessings cannot be dodged/parried/miss/glancing/resisted.
People started off the thread by saying that it was a bug. That's outright lying.
That it was patched out. Also a lie.
Coming in and just saying "lol no" isn't a discussion.
Tanking gear isn't finite at all. You can go an entire 2 months and have it rain from the sky or you can have none of it. The game doesn't have an end suddenly once you gear your Warriors it'll never drop again. As I've said, Warriors and Paladins wouldn't even share that much gear as Warriors use
DPS gear and Paladins would use
actual tank gear.
We're not even talking about trash. Again, you're focusing on just having a single paladin tank. In a raid, you have 3-4 tanks. One being a paladin tank doesn't completely remove the other 2-3 tanks from the group. Yet, I'm the one moving the goalposts?
Yes, Paladins will never be the best tanks overall. I'm not trying to push something crazy like they'll replace Warriors.
I tanked BWL Sunday, Onyxia and MC on Monday on my Warrior. I have played this game for 15 years, I've tanked on every class in various expansions and recently when I was still playing BFA, I was a Monk tank into a Warrior tank into a Bear tank. I tanked Mythic bosses as far as my guild could progress. My monk has 90th and higher percentiles on some Ulduar fights (
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/charact...9&difficulty=4) for Heroic and my lowest percentile was 79th. I switched to my Warrior after we downed the first boss in Mythic out of boredom for the Monk rotation.
So please, try to tell me how I don't know how to tank a raid or play a tank optimally it's pretty amusing.