Maybe in a normal, or a heroic instance it will work (don’t really know since last time I did heroic was ages ago). And this is only for 5-mans, or Kara, and barely ZA. If you decide to go at least TK/SSC, or timed Zul’Aman, I can’t imagine how lucky should your group be to cope with gear requirements of an instance.

In short, starting from certain difficulty level I really really doubt pvp gear can provide enjoyable PvE experience.

You know, PvE gear gives more dps, more healing and more threat. Less healing -> less margin for error, less dps -> longer fights -> less margin for error. And even PvP players who you’re praising make mistakes, since it’s in human nature. This is why some encounters get exponentially harder, the less dps/heal you have.

tl;dr. Brutallus tank even in full S4? Wtfpwnt.

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I also think Coke is better than Pepsi, McDonald’s french fries are better than Burger King’s, and that green is a prettier color than blue.

Bubble? Blessing of Sacrafice and freedom… huge cooldowns all round, and I already use them in fights.

Any good warrior tank will already do the things you listed, and a bad one won’t learn them in pvp.

PVE tank will apply rotations of abilities in a specific manner to maximize threat and mitigation. They are only good for tanking Galv and Drek in BG’s. And maybe holding a flag if the enemy team is mostly made up of Melee.

PVP tank will Disarm an enemy Warrior who just popped Death Wish/Trinket and wanted to beat on a healer/squishie. He will then spam Hamstring and hope Improved Hamstring procs to give the healer/squishie more breathing room before Disarm duration ends.

PVP tank will Intervene a focused teammate and use it to get out of Polymorph (yes, I’ve seen it done there are Warriors who are that fast). PVP tank will also use Intervene as a 3rd positional ability (Charge/Intercept), great for running flags (teammate runs/mounts ahead), getting back into LOS of your healer, or getting closer to a melee who’s on a teammate when your Intercept is on cooldown.

PVP tank will Spell Reflect and kill enemy Spellcasters (my Warrior on Arena 5’s team killed a Shaman with his own Chain Lightning the other day, it took us awhile to figure out who gibbed the Shaman). PVP tank will Spell Reflect to consume Hunter traps.

All of the above are things that you learn inherently through PVP—and then be carried over into PVE encounters, when you Disarm melee mobs who peel away while Taunt is on cooldown, Spell Reflect caster mobs, Intervene for superior mobility and LOS issues. All of the above are invaluable skills for when things don’t go as planned and Plan B needs to work “right now”.

PVP from a tanks perspective is completely pointless, I learn movement from tanking, I learn to avoid stuff, I learn to watch my health, watch the raid and co-ordinate. I have virtually no pvp abilities, I can’t apply threat, my armour, health etc are of no value vs casters, its more of a game of snap for a tank than an experience. Of course I could go dps, or healer, but thats not why I play. My warlock is slightly different, she gets some of the stuff you are talking about, but any good pve player already knows how not to step in fires, heck paying attention to the boss and keys is pretty much muscle memory, they have attention to spare. What does suck in pvp (and more so arena than bgs) is that half the specs are useless and a lot of the time it comes down to a lol-fest. Rogue appears, death coil, comes back, fear, voidwalker, howl of terror, succubus… everything can be broken very easily, there is no easy way to break into arena, most of the fights end faster than you can really care to see, rogue stunned you, gg, warrior stuns, fears, gg. Of course you can get around these, but 90% of the stuff a pvper learns is useless for pve, I am not going to get charged and slain like that, thats why I have a tank, he taunts, builds threat, I maintain cc dps etc, pvp and pve skills are pretty exclusive because of that core difference, the threat and tank.

Allowing tanks to pvp successfully and the two become linked, pvp offering fast paced random encounters, pve offering scripted encounters with much tougher requirements (never seen a warrior lol-cleave me for 12K before, but bosses sure do, and then silence for the fun of it :P). Bringing in tanking, some measure of threat would in my opinion make pvp a lot more viable for 1/3rd the classes in the game, and more interesting from the rest, make it maybe position based, your hunter can’t shoot past my tank at the squishie, the tank intercepts the shadow bolt, but there has to be something to make it viable for everyone, and more interesting to boot.