I’ve read about The plague of paper warrior “tanks” running rampant on fresh servers here is alternative build.
Many players are familiar of paladin tanks using flame wrath polearm to get insane thorns effect hitting enemies with 500 dmg.
Now this might work on Warriors Even better.
Use The polearm and spam hamstring until it procs then use zg SP trinket and swap back to sword and board. Now you’re melting enemies with FIRE, getting easy aoe threat while also being beefy deep prot tank. Dps zugging hard won’t pull threat
I’ve had this idea myself on my warrior on Era, there’s sadly a couple issues with it.
- The procrate on Flamewrath is very unreliable, this is the main issue.
- DPS is low compared to alternatives, especially once you get access to MC and beyond, so you get a lot less rage to use on whirlwind/cleave and they will also deal subpar damage/threat.
- The slots you use to equip spellpower items can’t be used to equip stuff that helps with your white hits and regular abilities.
Two-handed tanking is fine, I’ve never done anything else when tanking 5-mans, the key is to keep up demoshout (-15% physical damage, more if you put some talent points into it) and maybe Thunder Clap.