Warrior tanking builds

[Taelas]

In heavy raid fights, you're using the extra rage every swing for Heroic Strike, *for the threat*, not just as a rage dump. That's why the extra point I had 'left over' in my build went into Imp HS, for those times that I needed the extra threat, and that lowered the threshold for me to do it.

It's still much lower priority than the others.

We're talking three rage per Heroic Strike. Yes, it's not insignificant, but it isn't likely to cause me to lose aggro either (especially since I have very rage-efficient Sunders), even in a raid environment.

As far as Cruelty, an extra 5% crit is that much more threat, and it scales with your ap and weapons. Raid-buffed, I think my crit is in the 12% range. That's a fair amount of threat. YMMV. Of course, that also helps me when another prot is not needed, and I need to do what DPS I can. Again, if *all* you ever think you'll do is tank, then I guess you don't have to consider solo stuff at all, or DPS. Up to you.

It's not that I think I won't ever do anything other than tank -- it's that I want to be have the absolute best build (which of course is determined a great deal by my playstyle, such as Improved Bloodrage) for the job when I do tank -- and personally, I feel those five points are better spent in Protection. Threat DOES sometimes prove an issue for me, though. I guess I'll just have to try it out sometime to see what it plays like.:)

I think the best Cruelty-build I can come up with that suits my playstyle well is this: 8/5/48

Not that I use Shield Wall all that much, but when I do use it, I prefer to have it up for as long as possible.