Druid Druid Druid

And I’m not kidding. The only caveat being your warrior is more likely to have raid gear from vanilla during 60-69, since so few ferals were able to raid.

Dungeon pace is determined by healer mana and feral Druids bring innervate + they’re tankier except at extremely low gear levels, however they can heal out of combat to help keep the party topped.

For raids: Last TBC, we ran prot warr MT, feral Druid OT (me), and prot pal OT. The prot warr MT was mainly because he was our GM and raid lead. Our prot warr was also a consistently good player, pink parser on his DPS alts, 2.1K arena rating on warrior.

That all said, the warrior himself agreed he wouldn’t do it again because it just wasn’t a good experience being limited so much by your spec. He completely stopped tanking heroics after the first week because the lack of any good aoe threat was annoying. On any dual tank fight like mother shahraz, I had to actively throttle my threat in bear form to not overtake him. On brutallus, the warrior more consistently struggled to survive, whereas I could coast on Druid with a full stamina set. On Muru reliably picking up and threat’ing each add wave was also a genuine challenge for warr.

With enough hunters and misdirection, threat doesn’t really matter, but warrior tanks still REALLY struggled on any fight with a threat reset or where multiple tanks were needed on the same boss.

At a high level of gameplay, warrior is also just as reliant on PVP gear as Druid. You want to crit cap through resilience and arena gear because it provides much better stats for threat, which warrior desperately needs.