Originally Posted by Tszyu

On a slightly different topic, I was wondering how many of you do arena as protection?

Currently, I'm MT for my guild and have no intention of respeccing on any sort of consistant basis. I find myself sitting around Shatt doing nothing outside of instances and raiding. I like the concept of the arena and would like to get more involved in it. Only problem would be my spec, I guess.

The next question is to look at what stats to stack. Stam first, obviously. Next would be block value? Assuming shield slam is going to be a prot warrior's primary source of burst dps. In the few practice arenas I did, I put on a few of the pieces gear that has a high amount of block value and it seemed to work well. After that, strength would be my next assumption. The extra AP is always nice and the small amount of block value would add a bit more damage.

Beyond that, what abilities to you primarily use and in what order/situation do you use them?