zmandude24 wrote:To summarize the big picture, warriors are the better option for everything except for aoe threat where paladins DESTROY them. Yes paladins can tank many of the fights if the raid is creative with the mechanics, but that limits the strategies the raid can use. However, there are 3 major problems that a paladin tank faces in vanilla:
warriors are the better option for everything except for aoe threat where paladins DESTROY them.
AoE or Single Target threats no matter what - paladin using Spell damage weapon will turn warrior into Dust .
Yes paladins can tank many of the fights if the raid is creative with the mechanics, but that limits the strategies the raid can use.
Wowwiki mechanic = nothing is limited there , it is original tactic and work as intend , nothing is limited and in fact it gives raid more options (if main tank die you have backup tank to take over) where Warriors can't do this job and allows safety and easier run.
- Not having a Taunt: This makes them unviable for the fights that you need a taunt for.
- They will go oom if they don't use low ranks and seal of wisdom: In order to kill warriors in single target threat, you will need to use the higher ranks and you will go oom quickly. So that means that warriors will do more threat in the long run.
- There is not much gear for them to tank in raids: The main source of tank gear in vanilla is the tier gear and paladins don't have any tanking tier gear. So their only option is to use the non-tier epic pieces which are scarce and many times certain slots aren't in certain tiers.
I'm not saying the tankadins are bad players, their class is just simply broken and not that good in the raids. They fix these 3 issues in TBC and paladin tanks are seen as a necessity in TBC.
[*]Not having a Taunt: This makes them unviable for the fights that you need a taunt for.
All the fights that require taunt according to original tactic also wipe out the aggro from "taunter" , where warrior can be soaker only and the threat remain on Paladin on extremely high margins so raid can go all out.
[*]They will go oom if they don't use low ranks and seal of wisdom: In order to kill warriors in single target threat, you will need to use the higher ranks and you will go oom quickly. So that means that warriors will do more threat in the long run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_YEl0Yp8I3:48 minutes = see mana (always max ranks used) . it is impossible to oom and you still remain on astronomical threats using Spell damage weapon .
Warrior threats are limited , but Paladin threats scale with more spell damage.
[*]There is not much gear for them to tank in raids: The main source of tank gear in vanilla is the tier gear and paladins don't have any tanking tier gear. So their only option is to use the non-tier epic pieces which are scarce and many times certain slots aren't in certain tiers.[/list]
We have every single item required from lowest up to the highest raids , there are awesome non tier epics which equate to warrior tier , also taking into account that we have more passive avoidance it makes balance between "warrior tier stamina" and "offset paladin avoidance" .
https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hp ... 8017_o.jpgTanking hardest tanking Boss in Game (with blue items) enjoy it.
I'm not saying the tankadins are bad players, their class is just simply broken and not that good in the raids. They fix these 3 issues in TBC and paladin tanks are seen as a necessity in TBC.
TBC is for kids and damn easy so i can 1 button without even taunt using .
Taunt for Vanilla is required by 1 person (out of 4 tanks) where 3 Tanks can be non taunters as Paladins .
Nothing more , our only weakness is falsehood preachers that has no clue how our abilities work and jump over here preaching how bad/good on stuffs we are .