Current gear re-itemized
My biggest fear when looking at patch 3.0 is that it would make protection warriors unable to tank successfully until we get our greedy hands on shiny new gear that follows the new itemization for protection warriors: lots of strength, lots of stamina. As example, in my tanking gear I currently have a whopping 600 AP.
My worries are alleviated now, as I caught a hint of a thread over at Tankspot. I hopped over to the WotLK version of Wowhead and started looking at the gear that I am currently sporting and lo and behold, most pieces had some heavy re-itemization going on. The stats as they were remain unchanged, but just about every piece of armor had strength added to it. All in all, I will see a total gain of 166 strength in my current gear, without losing any stamina. Warbringer Greathelm is losing its agility completely, but has more strength than currently to show for it. As far as shields go, Dawnforged Defender remains unchanged, but Shield of Impenetrable Darkness gains 22 strength.
This is fantastic news for me. Not just for me, for all of us prot warriors! It means that we will be able to rock the tanking, with all the buffs that we are receiving, with our old epics. Hey, bring on patch 3.0, I should be able to tank dragonhawks more easily then. 
I was concerned about the loss in avoidance from all the agility being removed – but the Anticipation Change from Def to Dodge helps make up the difference.
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September 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
@Yakra: In many regards I think the new tanking gear will be a bit more boring, as it’s all strength and stamina and defense, and little else. I saw some dodge on gear, but not much. Avoidance doesn’t seem to be a big issue in the Wrath tanking world. But we shall see.
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