The Defense Warrior in PvP

[Thawwing Light]

Just respecced to 11 arms, 29 prot, 11 fury on the test server, and I enjoyed it so much I ended up switching over on the live server, despite the currently wasted points in iron will. Ironically, my PvE farming is not noticably slower than the 30 fury/ 21 arms build I was messing around with before (I do miss the novelty of Sweeping Strikes+Cleave). My PvE aggro control took a noticable boost as expected.

In group PvP, you need tac mastery for quick access to charge/intercept depending on which has its timer up / even works at the time. Intercept / hamstring / conc blow on a high value target while the other 4 members of your kill squad focus fire is a deadly combo in CTF.

Piercing howl also ends up being invaluable in certain PvP situations. Give me TM and PH and 29 other randomly chosen talents, and I think I can contribute to group PvP. Mortal Strike builds are still king for pure 1on1 PvP vs. healing classes of course.
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Having just respecced to the MS standard build (or as much as you can get at level 46), I've found 1v1 PvP to be much improved. For groups, I suppose a slight DPS improvement wouldn't make or break things, and the MS debuff is the big boost of Arms/Fury. Still, I did PvP with only TM and Piercing Howl and I agree those work as good 'maximum effect minimum cost' breakpoints when going Protection.

What I'm curious about is the question of 'Why Iron Will?' Is the version on the test server that much better than the currently useless live version? I would think a few points Toughness, pushing for Last Stand, finishing off Shield Block, anything would be better than a 3% chance to resist fear/charm per point... is it noticable on the test server?

I'm also curious of how much of a boost the new Conc. Blow is, with the stun limit...