The Defense Warrior in PvP

[Mavfin]

My friend and I are your typical def-spec Warrior/holy-spec Priest duo. After 2 weeks of trying out PVP, I am beginning to think they the best solution for our types of classes is to always team up in PVP. With healing/shielding/dispelling, the Warrior can actually live long enough to get rage and do some damage. With a tank/escort/interrupter, the healer can do what they do best and contribute some DOTs and nukes as well.

I very much agree with def-spec Warrior complaints for PVP, since most of the talents become worthless in a raid PVP environment, but if people stop zerging so much and start using the same strategy and teamwork we use in instances, perhaps we can all profit. :)
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And that's the whole thing about defensive warrior in PvP. A protection/defensive warrior is all about managing mobs and aggro. Guess what? It means *nothing* in PvP. So, all your best tricks are useless, except maybe to keep the guards off your buddies....and I bet that doesn't get you any points.

My advice to someone who wants to keep an instance tank setup, *and* do PvP raiding, is to use two different characters for it. They're not even remotely the same thing. Now, an Arms/Fury setup is all set up to do damage, and will work fine.

It all depends on what you want. Main tank duties, or PvP champ. I think if you try to do both, you'll end up not that great at either one, if you're talking about tanking endgame instances. Now, for SM, or VC, or Razorfen Downs, or whatever, an arms/fury warrior with a shield and defensive stance can do the job just fine. Just means the healer will have to heal you a little more often, but no major deal.