Originally Posted by pindle
Liriel, seems we're in kind of the same situation. My gear isn't that good but still for Kara and ZA I swap ALOT of dps items (or more hit/block oriented gear). E.g. badge dps legs, badge dps ring, etc. I'm not sure about your playstyle but swapping out enough items is ofc only possible if you have enough defense (and stay above 490 or 485 for heroics - I sit at 510 with non-threat gear).
As I was pointed to the first page for threat trinket selection, I've come to the conclusion my best aggro trinkets are the Autoblocker and the Shard of Contempt. I was already pretty sure about the Autoblocker cause removing it during prior testing (way back I must admit) resulted in a quite noticable TPS drop. I'll be using Shard instead of a hit trinket to eliminate more parry, and will try to get some other hitgear in to get as near to the 140+ I'm aiming for 
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I'd like to post back from my experience hopefully helping some other nonraiding tanks; turns out indeed the shard and autoblocker are clear winners. Sitting at only 66 hit and 33 expertise now (and 255ish ArP) in my threatset (focusing only on block value/hit/exp/armor ignore) I found myself doing most TPS in a few heroic test runs, depending on the instance (and with that mob armor I guess). In SL I could do a (to me) sickening 1400-1600TPS on the Mother Sharaz model mobs (don't remember the name; using this to compare cause these are one of the rare type of mobs I get plenty of rage from in heroics) according to Omen, allowing even my better equipped fury m8 to go all out, on a single mob that is. MT was about the same, Arca just tad lower. I was clearly impressed and am getting close to my goal (still have to try with a T6 mage friend w/o salv); with my old plain tanking set I would be glad to do a steady 1200 TPS which I hardly ever could pull off.
Does anyone know if Omen's reported values are anywhere near accurate? Seem to remember a thread about WWS reports showing alot less TPS than tanks thought they did, according to Omen.