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[LFD] Slap shield on, defensive stance; tank is a GO!
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Porcell
Well, you won't even be able to build a real "prot" gearset until probably Outlands. Before Outlands you'll just be breezing through levels too fast to even worry about it, coupled with lack of available gear. Once you hit outlands, I'd recomment getting some the Fel Iron crafted tanking pieces so that you at least have some defense.
As for build, it doesn't really matter. If you look at it, most prot leveling builds don't (at least, I don't think), go for the 5% parry in Arms. They are too busy trying to get deep into Prot for Devastate and Shockwave. So in that vein, a Fury Warrior will be short 5% Dodge and 5% Block from an actual Prot Warrior. Beyond that there's some armor things and some increased block value, but really nothing very uber important.
So up until level 60, I'd say, you could tank no matter what your spec (and almost no matter what your gear), as long as you go Defensive Stance, put on a Shield, and use a combination of Thunderclap, Sunder Armor, and Shield Slam. You can fill with BT or Mortal Strike depending on which spec you have. The most important thing, imo, is getting into a "I am a tank now" mindset. Don't try and throw rends, or switch to Battle so you can overpower; just do your job and hold threat.
Even most of the normal mode Outland instances shouldn't be too much of a problem. Like I said, go the step and get the crafted pieces made so you at least have some semblance of a tanking set to use.
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Rubendesmet619
I tanked normal lv 70 instances as fury in TBC(meaning ONLY revenge and sunder armor).
So my gues is just about every normal dungeon(70-80 was in t5'ish gear though)
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Sakkura
Up to what level can we warriors get away with merely slapping on a shield, going defensive stance and tanking heroics; with an dps build?
Heroics? I think you mean dungeons. Plus there are only heroics at level 70 and level 80, not before or between.
You can easily tank in DPS spec until about level 50. After that you can tank in DPS spec until level 80, but it will be increasingly difficult.
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