If it is as was first time around they not gonna please ONE paying customer and displease one zillion other paying customers.
Luckily for you. We are playing the recreation of a 14 year old game, so you have every bit of knowledge available.
Every piece of gear you have grinded up to this point will be irrelevant before you even reach 85, so you need to gather a completly new set of gear, so you can chose to collect gear that suits Arms if you are so concerned about your place on the dps meter.
If you chose not to go for arms despite knowing that fury is performing on the lower end of the dps meter, that is your choice. But dps warriors are in a good spot for cataclysm so the only thing holding you back are your own stubborness.
What? 
But Iām not only one, affected are all fury warriors. And it was not like that on the first place. This nerf was originally implemented on Fury in patch 4.2. or around that time. It was a quick but not very smart solution to address warriorsā burst damage. It received heavy criticism back then, yet they repeated the mistake without even considering that it might be too much this time around.
You in deep sjeet, because as far I know Carta builds on patch 4,2. Blizz has bad habit to release all Classics on late patch. I fell sorry for you, but i not a but surprised.
Blizz had in all bad habit do the exact thing to irritates as many as possible players.
Just play arms bro, problem solved
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At least DPS warrior has a choice of the spec, and one of the spec is top tier in cataclysm.
Imagine how prot warrior feels.
I was surprised to hear that fury is bottom tier. I only played tier 11 and tier 12 back in the day, but in tier 11 we had a fury warrior in my guild who would do insane DPS. I remember seeing on the logs once, the average guild member pulling ~20k dps, whereas our fury warrior at one point goes all the way up to 50k (if not more) and then die due to over aggro.
As for the topic: if fury is going to be underperforming I would have some confidence that Blizz will go in and buff them. Theyāve done so throughout Wrath, but never in TBC or before (to my knowledge).
I played Assassination in TBC which was a bottom-tier spec but I did fine. Could I have done better as Combat? Maybe, but I wanted to play Assassination. Weāre also getting the nerfed content in Cata so no one should complain about you not playing the meta. If I were you I wouldnāt respec.
Problem is (at least as far as I can say) is that Blizzard applied the final Patch Balancing for each expansion and those choices back then werenāt made in Vacuum. They were made with consideration of tools that were available in the endgame. So often times we end up with a spec thatās underperforming basewise but would compensate it with available gear which they currently donāt have.
Thatās of course not counting the fact that perfectly balanced game just doesnāt exist alongside offering players diversity in their choices and game style
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Same like fury now 
Respec or bye bye
People really need to stop spreading this misinformation about nerfed content. They have specified that we get 4.1 patch versions of the raids, which means They are with the bug fixes done while it was current content which are not even all nerfs, but some of them make fights harder, like for example stolen power at Nefarian not buffing your dots to ridiculous levels. The actual big nerfs were not done until Firelands came out in 4.2.
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I did, i respec to prot paladin 
Yes, and responses like āgo armsā are completely irrelevant to the topic I started and are a total waste of a comment.
I agree that blizzard should make an effort to make every spec viable. Not every spec can be tier 1, but if we can have the best and worst spec within 5 or 10%, thatāll be a good start.
Every expansion, some spec got left behind. Were you that concerned then? where you making many thread advocating for marksman hunter in TBC, frost mage or arms warrior in wrath?
Do you have a scource? All I can see now is that we get patch 4.4.0, wich already would have all the nerfs.
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I played and enjoyed Warlock throughout all of WOTLK.
But after seeing the cata rotation for warlock and that you have to have a sepperate mastery set of gear that you pop Demo form in and then switch to your normal gear before boss is pulled, Just sounds tedious.
When i compare the Warlock Icyveins page to the fire mage pageā¦ Fire mage just feels so much more appealing.
Makes me sad that the one i played through 30 /played days of wotlk is not the cata mainā¦
But it is what it is.
I canāt imagine how a warrior feels, if they got shadowmourne and then cata just makes them useless.
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It was specified by devs in some interview, I just watched the Scottejaye video on youtube where he does these news compilations of them so I donāt have to sit through whole interview but can just hear the important bits, he goes into detail about it in that video though.
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Iām sure everyone should take proper care of their spec. Iāve been playing a Fury Warrior since 2010. Arms Warrior has been the main PvP spec for warriors since Vanilla, and making it work better in PvE is poor game design. If thatās the case, why doesnāt Fury have better viability in PvP? Because it would also break a working game design. Each spec should be good for something different, and things should remain that way according to proper design.
Also, I understand that not every expansion is the prime time for the same spec. I agree with that, but thereās a big difference between Fury Warriors and any other spec/class in the game. We are the most gear-dependent spec of all and have the hardest gearing-up progression due to Titanās Grip. Grinding for two two-handed weapons is not easy, buddy. Thereās no other class with such a demand to achieve good DPS performance as Fury Warriors.
You should be happy then that you can now play Arms and only need to get one two-handed weapon instead of two.
Why would you think that? 
Sounds silly.
Are you comparing all 3 rogue specs to 1 warr spec? You should play arms. Everyone knows this. Just as everyone knows sub rogue is bad for pve, and combat rogue is bad for pvp.
Some specs being bad with low gear is not a warrior only issue. But dual spec is 10g, and learned at lvl 30, so there really is no excuse not to play the spec that is viable for your class until you have the gear to go fury.