1. #1      Prot paladin or Guardian for SoO?      So I've a
choice between rolling as a Prot paladin or a Bear in SoO. Both
are roughly equally geared (540). Raid composition is a
Brewmaster co tank, 3 very strong melee (dk, warr, windwalker)
and resto sham & hpal & disco priest. Ranged are clothies and
compared to melee, weak. Either way i'm sharing loot tables with
2 core raid members (but not stat priorities)      I had written
up a longer post comparing the two, but the key in this question
is SoO and it's mechanics.      All I've tried the two specs on
are Celestials on Timeless isle and LFR, since that's all that's
available now. Based on this, Paladin looks to be a bigger
asset. Still very smooth damage intake with 5 BoG EF rolling,
stronger cooldowns than the bear and more reliable AM.
Traditional class utility should come handy even if there'll be
no BoP/Bubble debuff resetting.     I've missed the raid
testings.     I guess I should add that I'm more comfortable on
Bear, it's been my main these past