Tanks and Tankery

[Tal]

Unlikely, Rinnhart.  Protection specced means you expect people to be hitting you - if you're the proverbial brick #$%&house, they're going to ignore you and kill your friends first.  Sure, you may have the guards following you around like you're some kind of minor god(dess) to them, but the guards will still kick your ass if you don't have a priest healing you constantly.

Warriors = Arms.  It's really that simple.
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There is more to raids then attacking opposing towns. Against a mob like Onyxia, at least in the later stages of Beta, you need a protection specc'd warrior to keep aggro but also to survive long enough to not need constant healing. And I would say that there is more to building a warrior than running down the arms tree. :)