Threat and TAnk Classes

[Kevin]

I haven't raid tanked as prot (I did some taunting on Gluth as ret spec) in wrath, but I have run a few normals on a prot spec warrior and ret spec pally and it was easier and higher threat (as long as I turned righteous fury on) to tank as a ret pally than a prot warrior in the early 70's. :)

Of course I've ret spec tanked a few heroics (though I've got a couple of Naxx pieces and mostly heroic ilvl 200 blues (and a purple or 2) for tanking now so solid gear). Though my last ret tanking of UP did not go so well, of course it was being healed by a ret pally as well. ;)

I've pulled aggro from DK's, warriors, and druids in heroics on single targets. I've not pulled from a paladin while doing ret DPS and I would say that the pallies were not always more skilled than the warirors or druids.

So like everyone else has said given equal skill and gear I'm pretty sure pallies rule the roost on threat right now.

The problem I always had as (a non-prot spec) OT on Moroes was that you were in a state of trying to maintain threat without any rage, then suddenly you were tanking and needed to use rage for both threat and defensive skills. Then you were back to starvation. It was the hardest fight for a warrior OT in all of the TBC content IMO

I never off tanked his as anything but prot, but I tended to use my DW to 1H with Shield macro a fair bit on him as an OT. It wasn't hard to DW and stay def capped so even if I didn't have the shield on when I took over the tanking it usually wasn't too bad.:)

But of course in TBC devastate/HS "spam" in def stance did better threat than it would now. But since it was lower rage the DW helped with generation and I think it did better threat than keeping the shield on and using shield slams when I didn't have aggro (or 70+ rage) would have. I didn't seem to have an issue staying #2 on him.

Of course I didn't get to tank as much in TBC as I wanted to even when I was running Kam as my main. But I kinda liked prot DPS back then. It was boring but could be OK at least. Now prot just can't do DPS.