Protection Warrior in 1.6

[Kevin]

I'd get Iron Will over Last stand. Iron will would help your solo and group play, whereas last stand won't help when there's lots of healing available to you already. The last thing you want happening is getting stunned and the pve mobs ignoring you for being stunned. Much more useful than a bit of health, right?

Also, Piercing Howl is extremely useful in pvp and aoe environment. When things go wrong, you'll want aoe slow before everything gets pulled every which direction.

The shield bash/slam should be a lot more useful than you'd think. A lot of the caster classes PvE, and some melee classes pvp have armor buffs and sometimes other disgusting buffs. A warrior able to dispel them is extremely powerful.
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Yep, that was my thinking on Iron Will as well. You stated it a bit better than I did. :)

Same with Piercing howl. I've survived without anger management (though I have loved it on test respecs) and it is that or howl since I am getting the new shield slam toy. :)

I was debating the usefulness of the 50% debuff chance on slam since I don't do a lot of outside reading about mobs and such until I've encountered them myself first (I still like the discovery factor). Good to know that it will be more fun than I thought it would. I already love the improved bash for 3 second silence.

You summed up some of my thoughts on the choices I made pretty well there, even if I didn't point it out in my other musings.