Zarant

Well that is true if you assume that you are main tanking, but as far as off tanking goes, it's pretty simple, you will be usually tanking adds that no one is hitting, taunting wing buffet or spamming hamstring for nightfall procs.

I dual boxed my way to 60 on other projects with the paladin+warrior combo and it's really good. Some quests you have to do twice, but most quests you can aggro 3-4 mobs at a time and just cleave them down. If you are playing with a pocket healer, you can pull multiple mobs without any downtime so sweeping strikes is by far the best talent you can get. I would play as fury and then respec to the standard arms spec at 30.

A shield will give you at best, 10~15% damage mitigation, and that is largely irrelevant since most of the low level content is a joke, there is no reason to reduce the damage taken if your healer can handle it. If you outgear/outlevel the content, there is no reason for using a shield at all, except for a few cases, l can recall from the top of my head King Gordok hitting harder than raid bosses, in this case you can't survive without a proper tank gear. I'm not particularly saying that a resto druid tanking is better than a prot warrior, but with the proper gear they can do the job just fine. Most people still have the retail mindset where you cannot perform a certain role if you are not specd into it, gear is far more relevant than talents for most classes, specially for spell casters.

Like I said, for the most part you don't need a shield, you need to know when to swap gear sets, some bosses and trash packs hit hard, most of them don't.

I leveled my warrior as dps spec, I always tanked 5 mans and for the most part, I had no reason to use shield. Any mail/plate wearer not fighting mobs several levels above, won't take any damage that a shadow priest cannot heal. Even at 60, after a certain gear threshold, a healer rarely goes oom, so I had more success tanking as a fury warrior with pvp gear than as a protection warrior, in the sense that my damage output and my threat were so high, that I could just blast through dungeons. Hell, I even did some smooth baron 45 runs with a resto druid tanking in bear form.

Oh I remember this from the nost forums. I've seen a lot of different stat weights calculations over the years, and each one had different results. I did the math myself one time and got something like 1 crit = 34 ap with decent raid gear and world buffs. It was a long time ago and I really don't know if I made some stupid mistake at some point. Just like BiS lists, no one should take that as gospel, unless if you don't care to do the math yourself, since stat weights changes a little bit with gear/buffs/consumables.

Rockpounder and Stoneslayer from uldaman at level 44.

What? Is the Ironfoe proc rate still 10% or did the elysium staff caved to all the cry babies from kronos? I ran a few simulations myself and found out that Ironfoe is not as good as everyone claims to be, it's amazing for human warriors but as a non-human, that basically allows you to skip edgemasters.