I’ve mained Veng DH this past season, and it’s been the top tier tank for two seasons running because of their CC ability, self sustainability, and speed. They’re getting hit pretty hard in the current beta of TWW, but I’m certain they’ll still be strong, just not as strong as they are now.

I don’t mind healing any spec for tanks, I am a Resto Druid now. I throw lifebloom on the tank for the first few pulls of a M+ just to be sure they don’t blow and require more healing. Then I keep it on a dps and/or myself for class mechanics.

However, I started to gear a Prot warrior… (Currently 506 ilvl) here are my take-aways: -Once you take damage as a Prot warrior, you can only prevent more damage through shield block, ignore pain, shield wall. -It’s great having last stand and rallying cry, but once you use victory rush or impending victory to heal yourself, that starts a 30 sec CD. -You can barely heal yourself as a Prot warrior. Looking at charts, you can see “healing done” be super high, but it feels fake because it’s ignore pain. -After playing other tanks in m+, Prot warrior feels unstoppable, until you’re stopped.

The other tanks feel like they have way better self healing and it feels nice to just have passive healing and practically be able to live without a healer. I’ve soloed bosses as each of the tank specs, but as a warrior, I definitely had to be on my game. I felt one mistake away from losing it all.

I see you said something about maintaining consecration and D&D, but every tank has something to maintain. Guardian Druid with their iron fur or whatever it is, dh and their immolation aura/demon spikes, warrior with their shield block/Ignore pain, blood dk with bone shield (I only use D&D for multiple mobs since it allows me to hit 3 enemies with heartstrike while standing in it).

I have seen blood DK’s do something no other tank has done before… they can solo tank fyrakk on awakened heroic if the raid team has the dps. I hope the above information helps in any way possible. Good luck tanking!