I am 31 18 Arms Fury at the moment and I think I am going to stay this way. Protection just has a lot of worthless skills and when tanking in UBRS I can easily equip a shield and be just as good of a tank. In MC, those extra points in protection will really mean nothing from what I hear as every mob hits for an ungodly amount of damage regardless. Not to mention everything is immune to stuns etc...
The reason I also remain arms fury is that PvP is much more fun where as the protection skills in PvP are pretty much useless as well. Piercing Howl in Fury is excellent for snaring an Alliance player that is trying to flee. Also you are correct in that you put some of your talents in the wrong place ie. heroic strike and thunderclap. 5/5 in Cruelty is a must - 5 percent better chance of getting a crit.
BTW have you enchanted any of your weapons with the crusader enchant? That thing procs like mad I it usually goes off 3 times per fight when I solo - heals me for about 300-400 worth of hp. Makes chaining mobs a breeze.
I HIGHLY disagree with you on the talents in protection. Improved taunt is incredibly important in maintaining aggro, particularly with high DPS hunters, mages, and warlocks who crit for 1000 every hit or more. Even if the enemies turn around for a second, particularly in MC, and hit that mage just once, he\'s gone. That can\'t happen. 2 seconds off the taunt timer helps out a ton. Other then that, there\'s shield specialization which helps out plenty when paired with deflection, toughness which boosts your AC count by 10% per item, and improved bloodrage which helps throw in an extra sunder armor or two in a clinch when you\'re lacking in the mocking blow, regular taunt, or AoE taunt category. That\'s already 14 points worth of talents that are incredibly useful for tanking.
Though I respect warriors who want to dish it with DPS, it\'s just not our job. We\'re meat shields. It\'s what we do. If you\'re going to play a ton of pvp, great, arms fury is the build to have. If you\'re tanking at all though, simply throwing a shield on you doesn\'t mean you can hold aggro and maintain holding it when high DPS classes start critting like mad. Believe me, I know.
As for crusader, not yet. The only weapon I\'d enchant for crusader, since I chose sword specialization in arms, is a nice one handed sword. I\'m still using my gimped thrash blade and although it has the potential to stack 4 times with sword specialization and it\'s normal proc, it\'s just not the blade I want. When I get a really nice high level 1-hander, I\'ll be happy to slap a crusader enchant on it, but until then, It\'ll just have to wait. Currently I have a couple of nice polearms,
Monstrous Glaive -
Blackhand Doomsaw and a nice mace
Unyeliding Maul. I have fiery on the Doomsaw and +7 damage on the other two (no one could give me +9 damage unfortunately).
For 1h swords, I\'d like whatever I can get ranging from the
Cho\'Rush Blade to the
Skullforce Reaver. I\'m not too picky really. Just need a better blade -- a reasonable one of course, not hoping for some epic drop.
