You don’t need to have protection talents to tank while leveling. Just keep a 1-hander and shield in your bags.
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You’ll get a lot of bites on this.
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Someone’s been watching Preach’s videos from March’s beta period. 
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K thanks…
I don’t even go arms. I’m going right down the fury page. Arms does make for better aoe tanking, but fury gets 5 crit, extra healing, enrage, flurry. Since low level gear has no defense on it, you get critted constantly, meaning enrage/craze are always up.
I find it hard to be warrior without tactical mastery. I find that 10 pts in arms is a must. But that’s my own preference.
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I’ve seen warriors dual wield tank. I don’t know if that was a thing in vanilla, but it’s kind of cool what i’ve seen people doing in classic.
Fury/Prot - it’s viable for some end game raid tanking, but I think right now, a 2 hander is better.
You don’t even need a warrior to tank. You can get a bear Druid, and they don’t need some crappy shield. They also generate threat faster.
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I just assumed all tanks were some form of arms or fury. Only MTs need to be prot specced
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Well… you know what they say about assuming…
And I am my group’s MT.
Its not hard at all to level in Prot, including doing quests along the way as you do it.
If you have problems levelling in this game… going Arms won’t fix them.
Edit: And just honest question for Warriors out there… exactly who went anything but Crit than Parry for their first ten points? Anyone? Every warrior should be the same until at least like level 20.
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Thanks, been using 2 shields this whole time. This changes EVERYTHING for me
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No idea how people play without this pre-40.
I’m constantly changing stances to pummel/shield bash, overpower, berserker rage on pulls, whirlwind, get that PvP intercept, etc. Staying in one stance I would feel insanely gimped…
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Crit and parry for first ten points? Going arms build this would slow you down from sweeping strikes and tactical mastery by 5 levels. Plenty of people go full arms first
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Pro tip: fury + sitting to let yourself be crit = wowee zowee
HAHA.
Are you serious? I mean… you’re pulling my leg to be contrarian right? You’re certainly correct in that it OMG slows you down by 5 levels before you get Sweeping Strikes(a 21 pointer… so not even available until 31… assuming you ever get there)… but you know what slows you down even more? Levelling the early levels without +5% crit.
Just Yikes.
And they say prot is slow(played right, it isn’t). I may be prot but I’ve had +5% crit talent since level 15, and i’ll have it for the rest of my time in Classic. It won’t leave the spec… ever.
Really… I was just in shock reading that. If you’re trolling me… good one. I laughed… hard.
Oh… and what in the green tarnation do you need TM for < level 20. You’re beating everything down(largely solo) in battle stance. It isn’t exactly something you finesse.
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That’s not even based on a preach video, that’s just common sense.
The biggest difficulty i have without fail is all dps opening up on different targets. The second biggest hassle is starting a boss fight / getting parried - and then loosing aggro immediately because everyone opened up instantly. Other than that i tank as fury its bangin
In pve, the point of tactical mastery is to facilitate using your full toolkit. You might be tanking, and need to pummel because shield bash is on cool down (and no one else is interrupting properly). You can’t pummel if rage resets.
Similarly, pvp requires players to use their whole toolkit. Even if some things are very situational.
I realize I’m cherry picking. In premade teams, both pve and pvp, going in with good communication is key. If something works for someone, I’m not going to worry much.
Except pummel and shield bash share CD’s.
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