Rerolling - Warrior or Mage?

[Serae]

I have decided to start playing WoW again.

What should I play? Warrior tank or dps mage?

I enjoy tanking & dps, I don't mind which one.

Which would get me into raids more?

I prefer to specialize in 1 spec. (Tank or Dps)

And is tanking a lot harder than dps?

[Trollin]

Tanks are easier and easier to come buy when gear is soo easy to get. Along with that, Warrior tanks aren't fun, if you would tank I'd say Pally or DK (if you got a lvl55). Mages are pretty fun to play, are OP at PvP (PMR), and are pretty easy to do good DPS. Imo, go Mage.

[Serae]

Thanks for your suggestion. I am mainly interested in PvE content. Does that alter your decision?

[Pietje]

Tanking is more versilate, but also harder. For PvE it's a LOT easier to do dungeons (and thus PvE) as a tank, as you need 1 tank and 1 healer for a group but 3 dps. Mages do pretty good DPS, but they are easily replaced by any other dps class, so only PvP frost dps would make it a good, fun class (imo).

[Serae]

I was looking more at raids.

My friend said that it was really difficult finding a good guild needing tanks.

This true?

[Serae]

I was looking more at raids.

My friend said that it was really difficult finding a good guild needing tanks.

This true?

[Trollblod]

I was looking more at raids.

My friend said that it was really difficult finding a good guild needing tanks.

This true?

It's not true on my server, but I can see it being true due to, every class can DPS; not every class can tank, a guild might want 2-3 tanks per class, DK, pala, Warr, Druid, that's 8 tanks total. (In my guild I'm the only prot pala, lootwhore)
And then every class can DPS, that's 20 DPS, but you want more than 2 DPS per class, maybe 3-5.
Same goes for healtards.