Originally Posted by Astrylian
Bears typically have way more avoidance than warriors, and you can avoid the bleeds. Bears will take less bleed damage if they have much more avoidance than the warrior in question.
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I really doubt Bears have "way more" avoidance than Warriors. I have 53% dodge with raid buffs, including GoA plus around 7% miss so that is 60%. An equal geared Warrior is going to be within that number, probably 3% less. That isn't what I would call having way more avoidance really.
Then again, when people decide which tank to pick they usually keep the worst case scenario in mind, that is getting hit (assuming no avoidance) since you are going to get hit and you want to be good enough to take the worst possible damage. And for that, the Warrior does better.
I do not mean to say Druids cannot tank the Bear because they can without problem. I was just theorizing the what ifs. Like "What if I had a Druid and Warrior tank with equal skill, equal latency, equal gear, equal <blah blah>...". In reality, this is bollocks. You will be hard pressed to ever be in a situation where you actually have a Druid and a Warrior tank with the exact same criteria anyway.