The warrior has been and always will be the premier choice for tanking dungeons and especially endgame raid-content in WoW Classic. However, Warrior tanking has changed much from 2005 to nowadays. While it used to be all about being as beefy as possible,
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First of all, let's focus on the melee DPS rankings for WoW Classic Cataclysm. This particular list is based on raid performance, the likelihood of a class being brought to a raid, overall performance in an average raid, and what unique benefits each class can bring to the tabl...
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Talents & Builds Trinkets & Cooldowns Twin Emperor Tanking World Buffs (Obsolete) Melee Warlock Warlock Epic Mount Deathmist Tier 0.5 Doomguard Guide Warlock Shadow Resist Gear Warrior PvE Prot Warrior Tanking PvE Warrior DPS Leveling WoW Classic Leveling Guide Horde Leveling Guide Alliance Leveling...
Talents & Builds Trinkets & Cooldowns Twin Emperor Tanking World Buffs (Obsolete) Melee Warlock Warlock Epic Mount Deathmist Tier 0.5 Doomguard Guide Warlock Shadow Resist Gear Warrior PvE Prot Warrior Tanking PvE Warrior DPS Leveling WoW Classic Leveling Guide Horde Leveling Guide Alliance Leveling...
In all fairness to Blizzard, unless you were switching talents for PvE for PvP, then you were pretty much stuck in most endgame talent builds which were dependent on your 8-piece tier bonus. i.e. Warriors were 99.9% specced Prot/Arms for Deep Wounds as they were the only real Tank ...
Hunter Talents Mage Talents Paladin Talents Priest Talents Rogue Talents Shaman Talents Warlock Talents Warrior Talents Best in Slot Druid BiS Feral Tank BiS Feral DPS BiS Resto Healing BiS Balance DPS BiS Hunter BiS Mage BiS Paladin BiS Holy BiS Retribution DPS BiS Prot Tanking BiS Priest Bi...