Question for Ciderhelm and other prot warriors

[Ciderhelm]

Originally Posted by Lucent

Let me ask you though, if you could change one thing about your MT (or yourself) to help others in raids and in pvp get the results they want, what would you change?

Reduction to the Warrior Global Cooldown for PVE, reduction to Shield Slam cooldown for PVP. Either of those would be huge.

Early talents are about mitigation. Anticipation, Toughness, Deflection, etc. A small number of later talents have a limited amount of mitigation (Shield Mastery, Imp Defensive). But the talent tree is -- I believe rightfully -- designed for Threat. All the gear in the world won't increase your Threat substantially without Protection talents, and talents which improve that even further are better for the raid. Ultimately, the gear is always there to increase mitigation.