Quote:Protection warriors are perfectly capable off-tanks, however. I get relegated to dealing DPS because the Protection warrior can get the job done, and I'm much better at DPS than he is.
Exactly. A feral druid *in this case* does the group more good DPSing than tanking. What's a prot warrior going to do if he doesn't tank? Do half the DPS you do? It's a problem with the very class that's being complained about here as the kings of tanking. Prot warriors are so specialized, they're not very good in any other role than tanking. Until that problem is addressed, druids will end up DPSing when they'd rather be tanking, and pallies will end up on other stuff *because they can*. Is it right? Not really. Is it likely to continue? Yes.
Believe me, Alliera, I can see your problem as clear as day. You'd rather tank, but, you outlined the situation that occurs a lot in the quote above very well. I'd *love* for my protection warrior to be able to switch gear and do enough DPS that you could do your share of tanking. I'd love it. I'm perfectly willing to share the tanking load with other classes. But, many raidleaders, if the prot warrior isn't tanking, they just won't bring them. The problem really isn't with the druid class. It's that the protection warrior, like the holy priest, is so specialized that they only do one thing well enough to get a raid spot doing it.
--Mav