Theloras wrote:Armilus wrote:Grinde wrote:So, how could I still be a unique snowflake and be a warrior?
If you main concern is tanking, I would avoid paladin anyway. They have some serious problems with their talents (many activate when you are crit, except tanks gear to avoid being crit) and they have to stop to drink after every pull.
This is wrong on so many levels - Paladins are the best are tanks in Vanilla and you don't need to be crush capped to do that especially if you have Force Reactive Disc and the Redoubt talent.
LOL at having to drink after every pull as well...
Paladins have mana issues if a fight drags on too long. At 60, Prot Warriors will be using a fast dagger to spam HS to keep building threat while making sure Sunder is re-applied constantly. Sure a Paladin can survive a lot, but those Crushing Blows are always a threat, unless you use a specific tool made by an engineer, and then it's still not enough to beat a prot-specced warrior's threat. Know why Paladins can't tank (which is more than just surviving attacks, that's a meatshield, it's also holding aggro very easily)? It's because Shamans can't be the MT in raids/dungeons.
Paladins are the Alliance version of Shamans, aka the buff-bitch who tosses out the occasional heal. Back in Vanilla, the developers had roles that were defined in their own minds, and if you wanted to MT a raid, you were gonna be a Protection-specced Warrior. It's also why I love being a Protection-spec warrior on the Horde, I won't have to worry nearly as much about other classes going for the armor. Other warriors if it's Pre-BiS/BiS, yeah I understand that, but Shamans will be using Mail armor, not Plate.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ?sle=true# Redoubt only triggers after being the victim of a critical hit, not something a Prot warrior has to worry about, and something the healers don't have to worry about either.
That Force Reactive Disk is nice for trash with the aoe threat I'll admit, but I'd never want to use a shield that might break during a boss fight, too much reliance on RNG not wanting to bend you over at the wrong time.
It's only in TBC and later when the talents. gear, and such were tweaked to where hybrid classes weren't pigeon-holed into specific roles. Vanilla is narrow and demands certain class specs to fulfill certain roles because at that time, that's what the developers envisioned, even if it didn't make a lick of sense in retrospect.