Bards, rangers, and monks can also tank just fine in a lot of small, high dps groups. When I'm duoing on my shm, I don't notice much of a difference between various melees in terms of survivability.
I wouldn't go warrior. Bad at initial aggro grab, and bad at pulling. Pally gets stuns and root, SK gets FD and snare. Both grab aggro fast, and both are reasonably inexpensive to gear. SK get an insta-cast self-invis clicky, which you won't be able to afford for a while, and pallies get an exp res at endgame.
Personally, I'd roll a bard and just build your own groups as you go. You can make a solid duo, trio, or bigger with just about any combination of classes, you can solo kite entire zones if you want, etc. There are all sorts of places where pulling quickly and safely is much more important than actual damage mitigation. You can amaze everyone with your l33t bard tanking skills.
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