Reinventing Durambar

[bonemage]

Just thought I'd add another bit of feedback. My wife is 30/31 for shield slam and swears by it. Enough prot to tank well and get snap aggro with shield slam, and enough fury to do more damage than any of our DPS people who are slacking off. :rolleyes:But it's also personal preference, shield slam and bloodthirst can be stylistic choices.

I thought about this a bit, but eliminated the idea due to a complete lack of rage dump ability when doing DPS. I could see trying to make it work with a two handed Slam Spam (improved slam) build, but the only real synergy between the two roles is Flurry. While tanking, you have single hand specialization and shield slam, but while doing DPS, you have a two hander out, wasting shield slam and single hand spec. If you dual wield to take advantage of single hand spec, you have no rage dump but WW and heroic strike. Dual wield + single hand spec + Flurry is really a white damage build. I don't see that being much different than DPSing in a full prot build, with Devastate and Heroic Strike as your rage dumps. I can already beat slacking DPS with my Prot spec. Also, I lack an epic 2 handed weapon, which eliminated any builds that relied on one, as I wanted to better leverage my current weapons.