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[Artega]

Agreed. I think you said the rest in your post just fine.

I just have a comment on druid vs warrior tanking. I've tanked a lot of things with my warrior, and know it pretty well, I think.

For contrast, tanking with my druid is both easier and harder, IMO. Easier, because there are less buttons to push. We have the basics, but don't have all the other situational tools a warrior has. So, it's easier....and it's harder. Simpler tools, but less options when things start going wrong. Still fun, just different, I think.

Same thing with my Pally. Tanking multiple targets is effortless (pull with Avenger's Shield, pop Consecration of either low rank or high rank depending on how much threat you need to build on the secondary targets, put up Holy Shield, and judge Righteousness on any mobs that didn't get hit with Avenger's Shield), but it's also very easy to forget to refresh seals and keep your consecration-holy shield cycle going smoothly. While Warriors can "soak" their GCDs via skills like Cleave and Heroic Strike, Paladins can't; Judgement is free of the GCD, but every other skill they use is on it.

Overall, I don't really have a problem with Paladins being secondary to Warriors for tanking major raid bosses; I don't see anything wrong with that. However, I do think that Paladins should be able to tank those same bosses; while it might be a little easier (and more effective, especially when learning those encounters) to do them with a Warrior, I think that it should be perfectly possible to do them with a Paladin or Druid tank with only slight adjustments. Currently, this isn't so (at least in the case of Paladins.)