05-27-2007, 05:30 AM
Quote:"Nearly every fight in there" except the ones that require resistance gear (the only kind comes in the form of 67 greens 'of [type] Protection" for druids). No craftables.
Granted, Druids can't main-tank Hydross. However, with his adds, the best strat is to pick them up and AE them down. There are four, and unless you bring a lot of warriors, one tank will have to wind up with two at some point. Who's best at tanking two targets? Druid. Swipe works wonders, as I'm sure you well know, and you don't need any resistance to tank adds when they die before the 25% mark.
A protection warrior can do it, but it's harder. They have to swap between mobs, which is hard when four of them are piled on top of Hydross, and build approximately equal threat on each. Druids just swipe.
Quote:And, eh, have you ever fought Gruul? Single boss, no adds. He doesn't count?
Okay, there are in fact two boss fights where it's just the boss and no adds. Both of them (Gruul and Void Reaver) require significant threat to be generated in the off-tank position without taking much damage, an area in which druids and paladins excel. So even on the one-boss fights, there are some roles that warriors just aren't good for (in particular, off-tank on Gruul is terrible for a prot warrior, because their high avoidance can often result in not getting enough rage to stay in #2).
I should have said, there's no single-boss boss fight that's tanked by a single player, like in Molten Core. Even if it is just one mob, at least one other tank will be required, and that off-tanking role will heavily favour a non-warrior tank. At least one non-warrior tank is highly favourable in every raid encounter in TBC.