Warriors, Druids, and Paladin's Oh My!

I felt it would be very fruitful for my first post to talk about my views on who's the best tank. Warriors, Druids or Paladins.

Well if your looking for me to lean one way or the other you will be sadly mistaken. I firmly believe that in both non-heroic and heroic 5man content any of the three tank classes if speced properly and geared properly are equally viable. There are encounters from various instances that may be better suited for one over the other but they tend to be a wash on ideal versus least ideal for each class and they all tend to be doable, just more difficult with the least ideal class.

As I see it you have three very different tank types.

Warriors thrive on one to one threat generation and build their ability to generate threat on taking damage. They are crush immune for two attacks in a 6 second window so it is possible at a higher probable rate the faster the target attacks that a warrior will take a crushing blow.

Druids have an enourmous amount of armor and generate their threat very similary to warriors based on taking damage however druids tend to have threat generating abilities but instead get their threat from very high damage attacks with hate modifiers to their attacks.

Paladins have comparable armor to Warriors but usually because of their need for intellect tend to have less stamina. They are crush immune so long as they keep their holy shield active as it has 8 charges for 8 seconds so long as they have the remaining avoidance. Because paladins require more avoidance than warriors to reach immunity and the way item budget works it also means that paladins in general tend to dodge, parry, and be missed more often in combat. This means they get hit much less but they still suffer from having the lower stamina on bosses that hit incredibly hard and incredibly fast. Paladins are also the most viable AE tank of the three as they have spells that are unlimited in scope to generating threat on targets that are both hitting them and are near their immediate area.

I will go into these more later but suffice it to say that if you dedicate yourself, work hard, spec right, and get the gear you need you should be able to make yourself a viable tank in any pre raid enviornment regardless of your class.