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[TheDragoon]

From my experiences druids are far superior to warriors in multi-mob tanking situations. Even with a full prot spec thunderclap simply doesn't seem to hold mobs as well as a druid's threat building capabilities.

You've brought this up several times and I'd like to say that I simply don't think it is true. As someone who has played a Druid tank alongside a Warrior tank when there are things we're just trying to multi-target tank, I can say with surety that Thunderclap blows swipe away for aggro generation. I have basically never been able to hold aggro with swipe spam versus Thunderclap spam without switching targets. And since a Warrior can always just switch targets, as well, I'd say this is a wash. :)

I bet you're thinking back to pre-nerf Druids where swipe really did reign supreme. Now it does significantly less damage and so less threat. In my experience, Swipe by itself is a terrible way to try and hold aggro if there is a significant amount of healing going on. Eventually I tend to lose aggro to a healer if I'm not swapping targets to hit everything with a Maul or two. It's not a big deal, but realize that Swipe was significantly nerfed a few patches ago and it is not longer as good of an answer.

Druids also have massive physical damage reduction and can also hit a very high dodge number. Our Druid tank loves to use his 2 minute cooldown "Bear Wall" where he pops his trinkets and has ~70% dodge.

A while back I plugged some numbers on comparably geared Warrior tanks versus Druid tanks and found that Druids tended to have about 2-3% better physical damage mitigation than a Warrior if there are no crushing blows. If there are crushing blows, that difference is negligible. And, of course, the Druid's damage is going to be a bit more spikey due to the crushing blows.

Druids also need less +Def to hit the uncrittable cap. Without the concern of crushing blows, druids would simply reign supreme on physical damage encounters.

If by "reign supreme" you mean "be 2-3% better damage reduction" then yes. :P I would hardly call that "reigning supreme."

Also, Warriors clearly dominate in an environment based upon magic damage, so, frankly, I think that the removal of crushing blows would tend to make things more fair than they are now. Druids would have slightly better physical damage reduction, Warriors would have much better spell damage reduction and Paladins would no longer have to dump on loads of mitigation gear (so they could get more life) or worry about their ping while tanking.