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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 4835244" data-attributes="member: 53980">To elaborate further:In 4e, your role defines what you do best while your build focuses on how you do it.  A Fighter is a Defender regardless of whether he is 1 or 2H Weapon Talent, Tempest, or Battlerager.  Certainly some of these are a bit better at defense while others focus more on offense, but regardless of build a Fighter is an excellent defender.In WoW, a Warrior (WoW's Fighter) has three talent trees.  Protection focuses on tanking (defender), Fury focuses on offense (striker), and Arms focuses on PvP (no analog in 4e).  (At least, that was what they did when I stopped playing; no idea what's changed since then.)  A Fury Warrior can put out close to Rogue damage, but he usually won't survive grabbing a boss' attention any better than a Rogue (both are pretty squishy).  Using a Fury Warrior to tank a boss is generally a last resort, and usually only works if the Fury Warrior is wearing full Prot gear (gear in WoW is of equal importance to Talents) and the party is over-geared/leveled.  Using a Fury Warrior in Fury gear to tank is almost certainly doomed to failure for any non-trivial encounter.So while there is some similarity, in practice they are quite different.</blockquote>