I mean the obvious answer is paladin simply because of numbers right and due to sheer utility. 1 cheat death, 1 mini cheat death from an active defensive, 1 full immunity, spell immunity, physical immunity, dsac, 3 interrupts and big damage with decent healing and u can reach 100% spell block with WoG.
Oh not to forget tempered in battle which is an insane talent and essentially an extra hp bar.
I’ve always wondered what’s the reasoning behind giving prot pallys everything and only make questions about balance for the other tanks, it puzzles me. I still play warrior cause I hate paladin fantasy and I don’t like their playstyle, but as I said other times already, playing any tank but that feels like playing a paladin, but without X, Y and Z - you almost feel like you’re actively gimping yourself for no reason.
So, I’d say paladin is the best. You can’t really fail unless you deliberately try to for most random content.
Yet I rather warrior and monk, and I currently main warrior. It feels like you’re more resistant than a paladin on average, but magic damage is a real danger and you don’t have nearly as many panic buttons that paladins have, so you either work hard to get out of bad situations or you die. But, as far as world content goes, I can’t recall any situations to require that amount of skill, your natural resistance is enough to pull entire zones and laugh at them. If I feel like I’m in danger and have no victory rush or other defensives ready, I stun everything, leap out of range and wait for second wind to heal me back fully - but there have barely ever been the need to do so.
My comfort tank is prot paladin. It has tons of utility that lets it make up for the group’s mistakes, self-healing, an easy rotation, and neat cooldowns.
I feel most comfortable playing pala because I tank with it since tbc so it comes naturally. I don’t have to think much playing it, which leaves more room for everything else.
I have no idea which tank is most comfortable at soloing stuff right now, the weirdest thing I did was solo the world boss in isle of dorn as brew one time when I couldn’t find a group up. It took a long time but it was comfortable.
Edit: I have also done lvl 8 delves in greens as soon as I hit 80 on pala, monk and dk. It was hardest on pala but it was also my first char so brann was pretty low lvl. It was also pre pala buffs. I had also brann on dps at start so I had to play way more defensively. Dk was the last and I basically changed to unholy because it was taking too much time for my liking and because my hp didn’t move at all. Monk was completely comfortable and better dps than dk though.
blood dk for survival
war tank for dps
pala for control and aoe
Bear is all furry and its growling is like a massage.
DH too edgy,
War too noisy,
Pal too flashy,
Monk too drunk and jumpy,
DK too cold !..
I have 3 Bears and 3 PPals so my reply is kinda obvious. Nothing to really add to what people already posted.
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