So confused about warrior talents, please help...

[Tal]

When I've been in parties lately, the shield has been coming out. 

I find the way tanking works in WoW to be a little frustrating.  In many other games, the warrior's doing the most damage, and he's got the highest defense, turning the warrior into a tank and allowing him to do lots of damage.  In WoW, it's kind of painful to watch the rogue do more damage than you, even when you're dual wielding or have a 2H weapon.

I haven't played a rogue yet, but it seems as if they're simply a more powerful class in that they can do lots of damage, but their weakness for being undefended is easily compensated for by their ability to escape.  Also, what works well when they solo, also works well when they're in a party.  If you're saying that warriors have to split their focus, it makes them weaker in both areas.

My criticisms aside, I don't really mind being the tank, but I'm wondering what are good talents or combinations of talents, that will allow me to increase my threat.  I find that when I'm going sword and shield, monsters will go after other party members who are doing more damage or casting spells.
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I'm solely arms/fury on Shalandrax and can maintank most of the instances in the game. I've never tried to do the General but I'm fairly certain I could tank him as well. That being said I don't tank in battle stance.

You and I will never out DPS a rogue, mage or a warlock. Especially ones that are trying to hurt things more. As a dual wield warrior you will have have trouble even matching my 2 handed damage.

So what do you do? Revenge, Sunder armor, shield bash and demo shout are your friends. You can start out as much as you want in battlestance but you're going to want to be bouncing into defensive as necessary, especially on multipulls. Smack every non controlled mob to get initial hatred. Get the rage for a sunder on the primary mob. If you have a very fast one hander then save rage for cleave after that. You'll be hitting each mob with normal attacks after that and occassionally demo shouting to keep them stuck to you. Taunt is your "oh crap"skill. Don't burn it early or often. If you DO need to taunt try to follow up with Shield bash or revenge to stay on top of the hate pile.