New Warrior Talent?

[Kjartan]

And this, of course, assumes you're taking both Shield Specialization and Anticipation; if not, you'll be losing 5 points somewhere else for the talent.

In light of this, I really don't see how this changes anything except for those elite few who actually have enough STA to make this talent worthwhile; story of the Warriors, it seems - the elite few get buffed while the majority stay the same or get nerfed.
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Assuming you are going for 31 points in Prot tree you wont be taking Vitality instead of any of those talents, you will be replacing the other crappy talents in the tree. Even if you take Shield Spec, Anticipation, Toughness, Defiane, Conc Blow you still need 9 points to get to Shield Slam.

Even then Vitality would scale with gear, the better your gear gets the more use you have of the talent. Shield Spec and Anticipation get more and more useless as gear gets better.

My warrior in end game blues easily ends up at 450 stamina fully buffed, getting a free extra +45 stamina off that is awsome. The best blue currently is around 30 sta i think, to get more than that you need to move on to epics.

To those of you better at World of Mathcraft than I: at what point (for a tier0/0.5 tank) would 5 points into Vitality be better than 5 points into Anticipation?

Health/Stamina is better than defense pretty much always. Against a lvl 60 mob you need 425 defense to never get critted. Unless you can get to 425 there is always a chance to get critted, and then you better have the health to be able to absorb the hit.

Against a lvl 63 mob which is the level most of the raid encounters are at now you need 440 defense, so unless you can get there stamina beats defense. And even with 440 defense you will get hit with crushing blows 15% of the time, so again you need a good amount of stamina.

I think it is possible to collect the blue gear to get you to 425, or even 440, but it would probably mean spending a lot of time looking collecting it and even some ZG AQ20 runs.

Pre MC it doesn't matter really matter. I've tanked everything with dps gear and a 2hander, even with the 5/10man limits.

If you are doing MC or future instances you get access to gear that give you loads of sta/def anyways, and you don't need to max defense to be a good tank. 315 fire resistance is the ultimate goal for MC, not 440 defense.