The Defense Warrior in PvP

[Gurnsey]

Just a small point to help clarify.  Anticipation is 0.4% to block, dodge, and parry.  I don't know if it does anything for avoiding crit strikes other than that, but that is the way to think about it.  0.8% damage avoidance and 0.4% better chance to reduce damage, if wearing a shield.  It's overwhelmed by items, but so is toughness.  And defense skill does not seem to have any diminishing returns or a soft cap.  I'm not saying it's a great skill and I would still like to see some love for the protection spec warriors, especially in regards to PvP but I just wanted to make sure that people weren't missing what anticipation does.
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So was the effect that defense has ever figured out officially then?

I had the feeling that it was also a check to an opponent's Attack Rating (weapon skill) which would relate to critical/sub-critical rates (to experience 'sub-critical' hits, try training up a new weapon at higher levels). I have Anticipation on my Shaman as well as some +defense gear for a total of +29 defence (nearly 6 levels worth) and I have to say, I rarely get critted.

I should do some tests with a damage calc if I can find some armor with similar armor values, unless someone already has. Perhaps Anticipation is not as useless as it seems...