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Note the qualifier I put in about the tank's gear level. I would say 600dps isn't bad for someone in instance blues who isn't specced for DPS. It should obviously go up when they get epic DPS plate.

The second shout isn't necessarily a bad thing, I hear rogues like battle shout.

I'm not satisfied that retribution paladins can do serious raid DPS at this time, so I wouldn't start pointing them out as better than protection warriors strapping on DPS gear, until there's good solid proof on the subject. Also, my point is not to say that protection warrior DPS is greater than other classes' DPS, but that they can do a decent amount of DPS if they work it.

You're right, Prot warriors can do decent dps but I believe there is a qualifier on that. In order for my prot warrior in my experience to do decent damage I need to actively take damage. The most damage I can do is when I in fact have aggro. I'm not suggesting that a prot warrior steal aggro in a raid instance so he can do more dps (that in all likelihood would get him killed) but rather in situations where he's only doing damage with the rage he has from hitting, it's not going to be decent.

There might be some gearing choice I'm utilizing for max prot dps (i.e. +400 shield block value and sword/board = PWNAGE! :lol:) but the usual trio that Tiga used as fury (Hit/Crit/AP) doesn't seem to do 600dps, and he has some epic dps gearing.

YMMV,
~Frag B)