In all of the time I’ve played WoW, I’ve never tanked seriously. I of course have played almost every single tank spec at one point or another, but not seriously and not trying to push in mythic+ or anything. What would be the best tank for someone to learn the ropes of and start playing? I’ll probably not raid, just pushing M+ keys. I also want it to be effective, not one that’s very easy but also by far the worst tank.
Bonus question: What if I made this topic, but replaced tank with healer?
Guardian druid is the simplest and is pretty good right now. They probably need a nerf tbh.
Downside is the APM.
Most healers are mechanically kinda easy, it’s more about the general awareness and gamesense knowing when you can dps and when you can heal, either way hpal is a safe bet rn.
Whatever’s Strongest is your best option.
Currently the UNDISPUTED best tank is Bear Druid.
Warrior tank is easy, i tank LFR with 0 issues and steamroll Mythic+6s
There are some different types of tanks, so keep it in mind. There are also dependesies and popularity situations.
Mitigation tanks: Reduces damage taken and survive by a smart use of their abilities to take the least amount of damage.
Selfstustain tanks: Heals damage taken and surive by a smart use of their abilities to negate damage taken through selfhealing.
Effect tanks: Tanks that through output in damage or utility tries to negate the drawback of having less selfsustain/mitigation than the two above.
In order as mentioned, first being the easiest tank path to go down. As you are focused on tanking as a prio. Seccond is the tank type I recommend and style I personally enjoy the most. The third is the type of tanking that is the most sought after, as it performs better at a higher level.
So to give you three options:
Mitigation tank: Warrior
Selfsustain tank: Death Knight
Effects Tank: Protection Paladin
All three are quite easy to play - yet harder to master. They all can do any content. So chose based on how you enjoy playing the game.
Healer: Same idea, only they heal the ones above in order: Hpaladin, Rdruid, Shaman.
The answer would depend on your definition of “the simplest”…
Warrior is the simplest to understand for a newer player. Prot was my first tank spec ever, and, even as a complete newcomer, I was still doing on it reasonably well. Almost all their abilities are very straight-forward and easy to grasp. I mean, “Shield Wall”, “Shield Block”, all that. The might not be able to finish pulls and bosses when they are the last man standing, though.
DH is the simplest if you struggle with button management. I main this class now, and it has by far the lowest amount of abilities to put on your bars. But! There’re non-obvious intricacies of how you use them, these abilities, which you wouldn’t probably pick up yourself without a guide. They are probably the best one to deal with Tyrannical, though.
Druid is currently the simplest if you want to, well, get into groups and play the game. And that’s for a good reason, because, with today’s tuning, they are reliable, effective, and self-sufficient. You can survive the craziest pulls on Druid, do massive AoE, help your healer, and bring dead Hunters back to life (to die again).
Paladin is the simplest to achieve results, I mean to actually time your keys. Because this class can handle most of dungeon mechanics all by itself, so you would do amazingly well in less-than-optimal group compositions. Paladins have started to fall behind a little in numbers, but they’re still in a great spot and loved by healers.
As for Monks and DKs, I could also come up with a field where they would be the simplest (doing damage and with sheer survival capabilities), but that would be a disservice. Because these two last classes aren’t simple to play (or to understand from the get-go) in any sense.
I was enjoying Druid before the recent buffs but that’s just helped.
Right now I’d say paladin, Druid or warrior.
Gun to my head I’d say pally - people will expect you to do mdi pulls on the Druid and they might not be the best for learning
Normally people say is Druid, though I have never played it so can’t really tell and suggest.
For me the easiest tank is BDK in terms of rotation and CDs, though I gotta say that if you get distracted easily it’s not the tank for you cause healers can’t spam heal you and carry you; you take a lot of dmg that you can even get oneshot “randomly”.
I personally think Prot pala is the hardest tank to play but I played it in SL, don’t know if Blizz changed their gameplay.
VDH and Prot Warrior are fun, I would suggest to try those out.
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