Warrior Build

[Malakar]

Improved Bloodrage – I constantly use Bloodrage to gain aggro.  If I have no rage and need to pull a monster, I'll Bloodrage, wait for 10 rage to build, activate a Shield Block, taunt the beast and then use Revenge as soon as it becomes available.  With normal Bloodrage, I can Shield Block five seconds after activating Bloodrage.  If I put two points into Improved Bloodrage, I could Shield Block two seconds sooner or three seconds after starting my Bloodrage (not considering combat rage generation).  I don't imagine there will be a lot of cases where my party member can take three seconds of punishment, but not five.  When things go wrong and this is a concern, I should be short-circuiting this cycle and use a rage potion instead.  I've passed it over for now thinking it is much better suited for an offensive warrior looking to kill sooner.

It sounds like you're using a talent calc which still says improved bloodrage reduces the duration required for the effect. It was changed in a fairly recent patch to reduce hp cost by 50% with two points.

One-Handed Weapon Specialization (and other damage enhancing skills) – ...  For aggro generated directly from damage, I think this skill makes little difference because a defensive stanced warrior with a one handed weapon will never beat a rogue or mage in generating damage aggro. ...

Of course you won't generate more aggro than a rogue or a mage from damage aggro, but this skill will help buy your taunts more time. It also stacks with the 5 points you already have in Defiance for 11.5% more aggro. It also has more effect when you use sunder armor which you say you use frequently.

Now, increasing damage to generate more rage to taunt, revenge, shout and stun seems like a much better idea, but I wonder if I would get a better return on my talent investment going with Anger Management.

You have 6 points left, you could stick one in AM and max 1h spec.

Anger Management – I may still take this skill, but I passed on it since my group and I play on the slow side.  If that changes, I'll drop a point here.  But I'm also seeing a post from Malakar in this thread that seem to say a warrior in combat with Anger Management will gain rage while doing nothing.  If this is true, I will pick up this skill ASAP as it would be like a constant running Bloodrage at one-third the strength.  Can someone else confirm this?
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I got that info from this thread (scroll up and start reading from Lemekim's first post). Shortly after I respec'd my warrior to MS, and picked up AM. You can indeed easily see that you get 23-24 rage from bloodrage.