The Defense Warrior in PvP

[Ynir]

Spangles is a defense spec warrior. Her build is posted here:

http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.p...st=&#entry72808

This is, deliberately, a one-sided sales job for a mode of play that is obscure even to most warriors. Spangles is built to intercept a mob, garner aggro, and lock the mob down until help arrives. She is also designed to pull mobs away from priests, warlocks and mages who have earned special attention from the enemy when their shackling, mezzing and sheeping tactics expire.

Defense tactics are most useful in the raid environment, and also in 5 man groups. Spangles gets many invites to groups that look specifically for a defense warrior. So, defense spec entails no sacrifice for the lost DPS, except in PvP.

This has become a major exception with the advent of the honor system, and the battlegrounds to come. It is not clear to me that Spangles can remain defensive if PvP replaces raiding as the main activity that generates loot and status.

Every class has forums where we may read gripes about its shortcomings, and the warrior is no exception:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...mp=1#post219043

This is the conventional wisdom about the warrior's role in PvP. I am starting this thread to generate some specific ideas about how talents, skills and weapons might be optimized to make a defense warrior viable for PvP.

We all know how to raid, 5 man, and solo by lvl 60, but PvP seems to be the next frontier, and at present I am not sure how to prepare for it.

Many of you discussed this issue in the first thread that I linked, so I would welcome your posting a url to your previous contribution, by way of collimating the relevant information.