Protection warrior guide

[♦ Nortibiry]

I found a nice protection warrior guide on elitist jerks over the holidays, here is a link for anyone who might be interested:

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t18771-protection_warrior/

You can probably safely skip over the bits involving calculus and still get the gist of what is being said

Also, for Seld:

You need to achieve 490 defense.
That is 140 extra defense (this may include the anticipation talent), or 336 defense rating at level 70 over your natural base of 350 defense. You may mix defense and resilience to achieve the same goal. Bear in mind that 39.4 resilience rating is equal to a 1% crit reduction, and may be substituted for 60 defense rating, or 25 defense. However, because defense also contributes in other areas detailed above, defense will always be superior point-for-point in item budget over resilience in a PvE situation.[/b]

[edit]Might as well be complete:

tankspot.com is the place to go for tanking resources. It is maintained by Ciderhelm who wrote the classic fortifications guide, and Satrina (who reverse engineered the new devastate mechanics for 2.3) is also quite active. Tons of information can be found here.

And also for Seld, a rating calculator for tank stats is here: http://www.tankingtips.com/tanking-formulas I'm not sure they're rounding properly (Blizzard rounds down if you have partial rating towards another skill point, as far as I know), so if you're working on some kind of defense/resilience balance I'd play safe and grab an extra point of defense skill.

[♦ Assault]

Wow you should have warned me it was 1047 pages long before you mentioned this. However, I did read it in its entirety and feel prepared to tank Illidan if necessary.