You guys were doing such a good job of 'splaining that S&B, ISS, and Defensive Proficiency is for challenging content and DW is for being Captain of the Junior Ranger Brigade that I saw no need to chime in. Whoops - forgot to stir things up: While Defensive Proficiency doesn't and shouldn't work well with DW our DPS when performing our usual role (tanking) dressed properly to perform that role (S&B like a tank) could use a boost. If you are not getting hammered then it's reasonable to use Shield Topple/Battle Leap instead of Insult, worse stats than your best item in a slot like Ring of Revenge or Girdle of the Weaponmaster, and even a 2Hnder (is 2HPierce really the best for us??!!) - let the Enchanter tank, they are hard to kill. Sure these things add 100 or so DPS but taken together that could be 1000 extra DPS! Woo woo (don't tell you know who or he'll nerf us).
I'm thinking it's almost irrelevant that you even attack, regardless of whether you dual wield or sword and board. I sometimes miss hitting auto-attack and my warrior held agro pretty much the same just from hitting all the combat abilities stuff. So I tried a few fights where I just insult, torment, knuckle bust and so on, without attacking and held agro fine. So all this worry I had about getting the anger/hate augs or weapons with anger/hate procs seems pointless, never mind dual wielding. If you can hold agro with just abilities, than just max out DPS or run a rune aug to maintain agro on adds or use an AC aug on your weapon (??), cause your added DPS probably works out to be one low nuke from your caster mercs anyway. Now, why do SK's and pallies get these ridiculous 235dmg 35dly 1hs primary (I recently did two missions I hate doing to farm stuff and all I got was the pally/sk 1hs that went to the rot monster!!) and warriors don't? We've pretty much been forced into sword and board and we're using 1handers that are more for dual wield.
'Why' is because holding a shield, via the Shield Specialist AA, multiplies your primary hand damage. Warriors don't have weird 1h because warriors don't need weird 1h. Our AA makes us use dual (hah!) purpose weapons correctly.
This is the main reason i have been running AC augs in main tanking weapon for a long time now. The 700 or so hate from an aug is a drop in the bucket compared to what a warrior can currently generate via discs and AAs that there is no point in having them.
This is why I don't even bother auto attacking when raid tanking. I may as well cut down on the extra riposte damage from mobs. My oh-so-mighty 10k sustained dps is a drop in an ocean on raids.
