Best Time to Respec Warrior for Defense/Tank ?

I was going to keep on with the Arms spec and then rebuild at the end
of the journey when my warrior is pretty much finished runnign around
leveling and soloing and jsut doing 5,10 and 20 man whatevers.

All the talents are set to zero now. I could respec now.

I did not redo anything this morning and the killing was a bit slower
prolly because no arms talents. The lack of mortal strike and improved
rend and the other closely associated ones seemed to really slow down
my killing time. Sunder is still there but with no mortal strike I see
the life bars not going down as fast.

I guess it is cheap enough to just go Arms again and respec later but I
don't want to create probelms in the instances I group up in over the
next few months on the way to level 70. I don't know as much about the
game as all of you people and that is why I ask for some info that
might give me an idea of the course of action I might want to consider.

Soloing and small groups out of the instance seem to require more Arms
specs and if I spec now for defense it looks like I'd prolly be wasting
my time going and soloing and would just be better off doing the
instances when my guildees go there at this point. At the instance
level I am at now no specs in Defense seems survivable but also where I
am at a no Arms specs seem not survivable for the majority of the
activity I take part in.

What I am trying to say is despite no pooints in defense I have been
able to do at least a fair to decent job on the tanking over the last
few weeks. If I can manage this some more for another 15 levels to 70
I'd just assume stick to this. I just don't want to be in the middle of
an instance or raid one month from now and find that I have finally hit
a wall on tanking and am now causing problems for the crew I am with
because I don't have a nice defensive spec setup then.

Then again if I don't hurry and get to 60 and 70 via soloing, grinding,
questing, etc in my spare time I'm not going to be of much use lagging
behind at the mid 50s while my associates are climbing and in need of
some services which I could provide if I am climbing nearly as fast.

Wish I knew more about this game.

Orion

Dave wrote:
> Dont worry, on the way to 70 there will be Druids and Paladins readily
> available to tank stuff in Instances, and doing a better job then you.
>
> My advice to you would be to respec to Dual Wield Fury, this seems to be
> the Spec with the lowest frustration potential atm.

Worst advice ever...

Keep your Arms spec, you'll get a lot of use out of it. If you want to
level up quick you'll be doing a lot of questing or grinding, where an
Arms spec will help you out. You don't need a defensive spec to
outtank druids or paladins.

DW Fury is a horrible choice, your miss rate will be through the roof.
DW really shines when you have the +hit to make it work. For the
average warrior an Arms spec is the way to go.