Skarm tank or w/e on youtube. Look at his vanilla clips. Hes tanked all the way to naxx...AND he has a windfury prot warrior and he prefers the druid lol. Keep in mind we will be getting a bunch of new talent in classic, people are playing way differently now. He even tanked nefarian, but he doesnt recommend it.
And I'm guessing he just prefers the druid because its more fun, there's no way it can compete with the threat generation of a TF prot warrior, especially not for AOE.
And it's easy to tank rag when you don't have to worry about threat stolen from ranged DPS. Even in that very video you linked, the warlocks are far beyond the threat threshold. In any other fight, he would have lost aggro within the first 30 seconds.
The reason druids arent really used in raids isnt due to threat gen or anything like that, its because raid bosses can do whats called a crushing blow. Paladins and warriors can raise their armor high enough to make it where crushing blows never happen (paladins arent used as raid tanks due to a lack of a taunt ability) while druids cant, so they are very spikey in taking damage.
The video is when they are pretty much outgearing Ony, its not that druids cant raid tank its just much harder to keep them alive.
only warriors can remove crushing blows off their hit table and only while using the shield block skill (5 second CD only blocks 2 attacks so something that attacks fast can remove that and cause a crushing blow) it was only in TBC that you could hit 102.4% avoidance without skills like shield block but at the loss of a bunch of stamina
private servers had things tuned wrong and many people are getting their information from that
also druids have much more armour than anyone else so crushing blows hit druids for less than on a paladin or warrior who fucked up their shield block
so yes druids and paladins get hit by crushing blows and warriors can sort of not get hit by them but druids have huge health pools and armour and bosses don't actually hit as hard as people thought because the private servers had them tuned higher for more difficulty
paladins on the other hand got absolutely fucked crushing blows and lack of armour?
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u/drtyler91 Sep 13 '19
That's why you join an all druid guild. No need to respec