Pandaria warrior specializations

[demzo]

I've played WoW before, but it was on wotlk and I barely made it to lvl 60 so I have limited knowledge. anyway, I'm currently on frostwolf leveling my prot warrior. Now my friend keeps telling me I should roll arms because it kills faster. Is this true? from what I've experienced my prot warrior can shield slam>Revenge>Execute a mob in under 3 seconds then proceed to the next, not to mention being able to tank and kill 3-5 mobs at once. I tried rolling arms but didn't get the same efficiency as prot. what am I doing wrong? (still lvl 53 tho, does arms do better in later levels?)

[Ph4ra0h]

Prot is the best for leveling obviously, atleast until you reach level 80 or something like that. Then you just switch to arms. :)

[demzo]

thanks! but I'm curious, what makes arms do better 80+ ?

[Ph4ra0h]

Prot just scales way better with AP at lower levels and one shots everything, at higher levels it starts to fall behind other 2 dps specs. It's just the way the game is balanced around.

[Tekmansam]

Having just recently leveled a prot to 90 I can confirm this. I practically one-shot everything with shield slam up till 80, and was thinking about how boring and op it all was....then after 80 it was like an entirely different game. I continued with prot to 90, but i definitely was no longer one-shotting mobs. I was disappointed with my kill speed so I tried rolling fury. My gear was pretty awful, so I didn't noticed a huge change in my kill speed, but I did noticed I died much easier.