Not so long ago I wondered where are the paladin tanks, seems Blizzard also noticed the problem. Tseric’s post:

The devs actually mentioned today that Paladin tanking wasn’t exactly where they wanted it to be and there would be attention paid towards that end of things. Overall, they do expect Paladins, Druids and Warriors to fill tanking roles in end-game, whatever they may be. While there may be a flavor distinction between tanks, we don’t want to (or want the players to) find some rigid hierarchy by which classes are measured in their tanking potential to the third decimal point.

So, they don’t want us to make a hierarchy? Well, if tanks should be equal but distinct to each other, that would mean we have to take 3 main tanks to a raid, and change them for different encounters that would favor different way of tanking. For me it means that either Blizzard have no idea where and how they want hybrids to become a viable tanks yet not exceed prot warriors OR it’s all just PR crap, since they can’t just go to the Paladin forums and say “lololo u can spec prot but u can’t tank raidz noobz!”.

Terhix