So far, all of the Druid Tanks I’ve been with were lifesavers; Coming to save the day, doing a good job at tanking, keeping aggro, not taking a lot of damage. Frankly I think they should be encouraged to Tank more often!
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In dungeons? Absolutely, they’re quite useful and it’s good to have them when all these warrors only want to dps.
In raids? Yeah no, warriors are far better for that.
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Who cares about raids?
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People should really read up on the different tanks’ mechanics, strengths and weaknesses before declaring any one of them the better tank tbh.
What Warriors make up for in defensive cooldowns and being uncrushable, they lose by having the worst ST and AoE threat output of the three.
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Everyone, to be honest?
Except I am very well aware of that. That’s one of the reasons why paladin tanks and bear tanks started to rise as great aoe tanks and even good single target tanks in TBC except for some bosses (like Illidan). In fact, I did see some bears tank a few raid bosses in vanilla, on pservers.
But the fact is that bears are subpar compared to warriors for everything but threat (which is not an issue with a good raid comp and good warriors, and really not an issue at all if you’re alliance).
TLDR: bear tanks are nowhere near as bad as people say they are, but warriors are just straight up better in vanilla.
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Bears and Paladins are also superior tanks when having to wear resistance gear while tanking due to the nature of how their threat is generated, and as such lose less while wearing otherwise dead stats.
For 5 mans they are great. They hold threat so well, on single targets I believe they are objectively the best. It’s great to play a class that can fill both tank and healer roles effectively.
I’m not going to argue about the good points of bears and palatanks, I don’t particularly care either way. If some guilds actually enjoy using them as main tanks for raids, no matter how rare that is, I don’t see a problem with it happening.
Bassicly druid outclasses warrior in all contents
… Except raids
… We don’t last more than 30 secounds in raids 
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actually, as soon as your healers can manage the crushes, druid outshines warrior.
remember, the druid may take more spiky damage due to crushing blows, but those crushing blows will not hit as hard as they do on a warrior (or a paladin), and dps can really go HAM with a druid tanking.
and we still haven’t mentioned the fact except raid bosses (which you need 1-2 warriors for) bears are better for all trash/adds
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For dungeons I definitely prefer a Druid tank. It is so much less stressful to dps with the amount of threat that they generate. Also a Druid tank does far more damage than a Warrior tank does. Just an overall superior dungeon tank.
Something a lot of people don’t consider, when comparing druids and warriors, is the fact that druids mostly get items nobody else (let alone warriors) would want. This means that it’s faster to gear up 2 warrior tanks and 1 feral tank than 3 warrior tanks.
And the raid which, realistically, will be up for the shortest time before next one hits (AQ40) also happens to be the most generous one towards feral druids
In other words, having a feral tank makes the transition to AQ40 to Naxx significantly smoother, tanks-wise. It also helps that feral tanks are top-notch choices for Patchwerk and Thaddius, and can tank everything except Sapph, Maexxna and few others.
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Yeah, I tought so too, until I started running BRD+ level dungeons with a druid tank. He gets his jaw broken to so many pieces, I go oom every pull from trying to fix it.
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Druids can tank 90% of the raid encounters in classic just fine.
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I feel like this was written by a druid main in secret
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Nah. Just been running with a lot of Druid Tanks and many of them went really well. Although it was with a Paladin Healer and… Well, they’re great 
On which pulls, exactly?
The fact druids can’t block, unlike Warriors, means that they suffer much more damage when tanking multiple mobs. Blocking shaves a fixed amount of dmg from each hit, so it’s not very impactful vs very large hits from a single enemy but very strong vs multiple small hits from many enemies.
I doubt this druid of yours would suffer much more dmg than a warrior vs Emperor Thaurissan, for example, but you prolly would notice a difference while running through Lycaeum.
aibury exclaims, as they sweat nervously, hoping their cover hasn’t been blown.
We’ve had our Feral Tank MT through MC and even 15 man Onyxia. Like mentioned in the thread, most times it makes no diffrence but a few times one needs to be aware of some mechanics that makes it harder. Wouldnt do it in a PUG, but wouldnt call it crap or impossible either. Good thing to have, without doubt.
Trash pulls. It was at the time we were leveling up during the first week, still a warrior is a lot better for not getting his jaw broken.
On bosses, it doesn’t matter, because they are loot pinatas.