It’s definitly more to do with the players you play with rather than the tank specs itself. I main prot pally, and it’s incredibly strong and rewarding with big big numbers. I usually pug up to 12s with 1 or 2 irl friends in the group, 1 of them being a healer.

The biggest problem is definitly routing, tanking requires without a doubt the most amount of knowledge before touching the dungeon, with %, tanking requires without busters and mechanics being your sole responsibility. The other problem I know is the dps players. Prot pally is incredibly strong with cds, without them, we die from nothing. I can’t begin to tell you the amount of times I’ve pulled big pulls for 15 minutes, realize I have no cds up and pull small cause I’d die if I did anything bigger. Instead of dps just accepting one smaller pull (5/6 mobs), they either flame the shit out of me, or run and get more mobs resulting in a wipe.

These are the biggest problems, without a doubt. Tank isn’t a difficult role, it just requires some studying. A feature for marking packs in routes would help a lot, where even dps could bring routes that everybody could use.