01-31-2007, 03:08 PM
Quote:That being said I've been tanking in this set up through mana tombs and unless I have more than one mob wailing on me I'm pretty rage starved unless I deliberately avoid using shield block.The fun thing is that you don't really need a whole lot of rage to tank one mob, so it usually roughly balances out, in my experience.
As for other positive anecdotal evidence, I recently did some testing with my warrior between a 0/31/20 and a 5/5/41 spec to check out the damage difference. Overall, I ended up with a very, very similar DPS output while grinding mobs with the 5/5/41 spec (300-305 DPS with the fury/prot build and 290-295 with the full prot build). I was a bit surprised by that, but given all of the great bonuses of the full prot build (Focused Rage, Vitality, Devestate versus Flurry, Death Wish and Bloodthirst), I think that's the direction I am leaning toward, with my warrior. I was a bit sad to do it because I was one of the first crazy fury warriors in our group and it is somewhat sad to give it up. :(
-TheDragoon