Have a warrior alt, thinking of leveling as prot.

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I'm going to level him from 65 to 80 as prot. Mainly so I can learn about warrior tanking, and get over the 'WTF are all these buttons for?' that I have when I look at warrior tanks.

I have shoulders, and I'm going to get the plate heirloom Chest. I was thinking about getting an heirloom weapon, but I wasn't sure what I should get.

There is:

A fast dagger with stam
A sword with stam
A mace with stam + agi

I know that it's leveling and what not, but I wasn't sure if using a slow weapon as a warrior tank would matter at all.

It used to be you wanted the fastest weapon you could find for tanking. I leveled my warrior as protection the whole way to 80, but other than one instance in WotLK and a couple of instances in BC she hasn't tanked anything since classic. It may well be that slower weapons are in favor now. I hoped having a tank would make it easier to get groups, but I gave up trying. I rather miss the thrill of tanking Ragnaros. And it was fun tanking instances with Bolty healing, but that was over five years ago.