First off, I’ll answer your question about deep wounds. The whole idea behind speccing into Deep Wounds is to help you generate additional AoE threat over time. I personally feel this is a waste of talent points; you end up using 5 points to get all the way into Deep Wounds, and then the only way it’s worth having is if you have 3 points into Incite. That is 8 points used right off the bat. I used to run a Deep Wounds build, and after moving away from it, I don’t really notice any drastic loss of AoE threat. If you have group pull, charge in, Thunder Clap, Shockwave and Thunderclap again, and that is usually sufficient to maintain AoE threat, unless you have a dps coming in right on your tail ripping stuff, and at that point they become the healers problem as far as I’m concerned. Something else that will help with AoE threat is the new Improved Revenge. Hit it everytime its up, it now acts like an instant cleave and you can hit some nasty crits on it. Something else I try to do when tanking groups is work Cleave in as a rage dump instead of Heroic Strike, just don’t get into the habit of spamming it, because you can dry yourself up pretty quick, especially if you outgear an instance.
This is the build I use for tanking.
http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xm ... 1330113321This build is mostly about rage generation and conservation. It works well in heroics, and I rarely find myself rage starved, and it also offers enough survivability to use in a raid. If you run just heroics, you may want to leave your points in improved Bloodrage and not spec into Booming Voice because it is more of a raid utility. Also, I wouldn’t worry about speccing into Last Stand for a heroic build. If you need that in a heroic, get a new healer or pull less trash at one time.
Glyphs come down to personal preference a lot of times. For major glyphs, I use Glyph of Blocking, Glyph of Vigilance, and Glyph of Devastate. If you’re tanking heroics only, you could probably swap out the Glyph of blocking for Glyph of Cleaving. For minor glyphs, I run Glyph of Bloodrage, Glyph of Thunder Clap, and Glyph of Command. Glyph of Command is nice for a raid, kind of like Booming Voice, but once again, for heroics, there may be something else you could throw in there to help generate more threat.
The last thing I would suggest is to check out the Warrior Guides section of this forum, there is a link in there for WoW.com’s Prot 101 article, which is full of pretty solid information and you don’t have to sift through a lot of crap to get to it like you do on some sites.
Hope this helps, and if you have any questions, throw them up here, I’ll do my best to give you the right answer.
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