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Post by
Magician22773
Right now, the average wait time for a DPS on my server for a Troll Heroic is about 30+ minutes. That said, I dont care if my tank is a pink pony w/ ribbons in its mane, if it can hold aggro, Im good with it!
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Ashelia
Prot paladins are honestly the best tank in the game right now for mitigation. DKs sadly are the worst... but a tank is a tank, especially for 5 mans, and you should be playing for fun.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Ashelia##DELIM##
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Post by
Nathanyal
Prot paladins are honestly the best... DKs sadly are the worst... but a tank is a tank, especially for 5 mans, and you should be playing for fun =)
This is subjective. In my experience, its the dks that are supreme tanks at level cap.
It just comes down to how well the player knows their class. My guild has, or had, 1 of each tank class. All of them did great. Now our 2 main tanks we have for progression are a DK and a Protadin. The DK tank is great and he knows his class well as well as the Paladin.
I would say choose which one you like to tank with the best. Pick the one that you feel most comfortable with.
Post by
wrlwnd
As a relatively new healer I have the easiest to heal is a bear. The best in keeping aggro off me is a prot pally.
Most
DKs seem squishy and require lots of heals. I really don't care what I have as long as they can keep on eye on my mana, not outrun me while I am drinking and keep the aggro.
I ran FL trash with the guild and had a fairly easy time with our GMs a DK and pally tank. Last night I pugged BWD and enjoyed healing the bear tank that was mine
Post by
Atik
Shaman tanks are the undeniable best.
Post by
deathbyte
I prefer healing a bear tank or prot pally. But as long as they keep aggro i dont mind any mof them
Post by
rageahol
I'd say warrior, 'cause I play one and no-one else mentioned them.
Post by
TheReal
I'm partial to my bear. We block with our faces, and no other tank class can do that. I was just in a group with a mage who tried to tank with his face, but it didn't work out so well for him. Hey, I said "afk."
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756628
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Post by
Jeremypwnz
I like Warrior and Pally tanks the best. They seem (From what I've seen), to take the least amount of damage and can survive almost anything.
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238445
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Post by
Ashelia
Right now, the average wait time for a DPS on my server for a Troll Heroic is about 30+ minutes. That said, I dont care if my tank is a pink pony w/ ribbons in its mane, if it can hold aggro, Im good with it!
Really? After the threat hotfix I have been experiencing 3-11 minute queues as a dps.
Prot paladins are honestly the best... DKs sadly are the worst... but a tank is a tank, especially for 5 mans, and you should be playing for fun =)
This is subjective. In my experience, its the dks that are supreme tanks at level cap.
It's not subjective, unfortunately. They will never be all equal; Blizzard can't balance them that perfectly, it's hard math. For this reason, DKs are the worst of the four. Will you wipe with a DK? Will you even notice in a 5-man or normal modes? Probably not. If the player is good, they should be able to play what they want. But I would always want a prot paladin over a DK, hands down, for a heroic mode.
When we were doing H: LK progression, we used a DK tank. We would have had a kill several weeks earlier if not for that--the DK was a good tank, too. Unfortunately the class was just not as good as a paladin for that fight.
If you notice, though, at the end of my explanation... I did say play what you want to play. I STRONGLY believe in doing that. Be a DK if it makes you happy, even if it's 1% worse... or for some heroic modes, maybe 10% worse. Bring the player, not the class. At the same time, though, don't say that all classes are equal.
It's much like how shaman are sat for heroic Rag. I know amazing shaman, some of the best players in the game. But should they be brought in for a fight you 3 heal? Probably not--they don't have enough CDs, they don't have things like a Priest or Paladin does.
It's a stupid reality, but it is one in this game.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Ashelia##DELIM##
Post by
Atik
DKs scale better with your skill though. You have to consciously make every block and decision based upon skill and experiance rather than luck.
Shamans are still better though.
Post by
ZombieJesus
DK tanks are getting owned in Firelands heroics. The only fights they are even useful are those where Anit Magic Shell gimps the damaging abilities.
Anyone wanna argue?
Come at me.
Post by
pezz
DKs scale better with your skill though. You have to consciously make every block and decision based upon skill and experiance rather than luck.
Shamans are still better though.
DKs don't scale better with your skill. They scale worse with your lack of skill.
That's a lot of the problem right now. It's ten times the effort for slightly less result.
Post by
Atik
DKs scale better with your skill though. You have to consciously make every block and decision based upon skill and experiance rather than luck.
Shamans are still better though.
DKs don't scale better with your skill. They scale worse with your lack of skill.
That's a lot of the problem right now. It's ten times the effort for slightly less result.
True, the worse you are the worse the DK will be. But if someone really knows how to play it, they will out-tank a Pally or Warrior by miles because their blocks are all a button press, rather than hoping for a lucky roll.
I mean, my main is a warrior who I am pretty damn good with. And
I
can't solo Yogg-Saron...
Post by
cloudp
I mean, my main is a warrior who I am pretty damn good with. And
I
can't solo Yogg-Saron...
Soloing capability and end-content environment are significantly different, and Blizzard tunes the latter. It's expected to see a lot of class disparities in soloing capacity, quite significant in fact. Blood DKs could solo Sartharion during tier 8 (or 9?), and they weren't necessarilly overpowered as tanks.
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