Reinventing Durambar

[bonemage]

My biggest concern is that you are happy with the build and have fun playing.

This isn't correct. The problem is that I haven't been happy. I feel completely marginalized as a MT (I lack the gear for what isn't a loot pinata, and OTs can tank those), and I can't raid with my alt because he's an alt, and I don't really like raid healing much anyway. For a long time now, I've felt that I have no place in 25 raids at all. I've taken a couple months off of serious raiding, and think I've reconnected with why I play. This respec should relieve some gear pressure, while not making me feel like a leech by filling a DPS slot with a tanking spec. I need to try something new in WoW and hope it works, or wait until the next expansion and hope I like raiding with a Death Knight...

So hopefully the tanking feel changes won't drive you nuts like they do to me

This is my biggest concern. I've been full prot since level 35ish except for about 2 weeks in my low 50s while I worked on my Grunt trinket. Losing shield slam and focused rage might drive me nuts, but as I said, I have to change something or quit.

Hear are my 2 cents. I say throw out any idea of needing any points in def. to offtank. Just go all out DPS. The only place so far we have gone that we have needed a serious offtank was SSC and I thought with my total crap gear I did successfully tank my add. I don't know of very many times we couldn't run something with the lack of a tank. We have great warrior, pally and bear tanks when we raid. I think it would benefit the raid a better to have another high DPSer.

I'm still wanting improved shield block because I want to be capable for most bosses, including OT on HKM. Besides, taking a crushing blow is shameful to me, and I'm hoping for a superior tank spec than our current DPS warriors, while only giving up minimal DPS to get there. I still define Durambar as a tank, so him having fewer tanking talents than my holy pally doesn't feel right. I will have about 95% of the mitigation I do now with this spec, just lower stam, and will block for less. I'm hoping my DPS will be significantly higher to get me out of "leech" status. If I don't end up liking the spec, as I feel it gimps my DPS too much, or tanking drives me nuts, I'll do something else. I think I still expect to gear myself first as a tank, though, with some concessions to higher priority tanks, that I've already outlined.

Here is where I stand on talent choices currently. If I'm still Fury when we start working on Lady Vashj, I'll pick up Piercing Howl.