A Warrior Tanking Compendium?

[Pixelshader]

You forgot about Fracture, which is the most damaging single GCD that WARs get access to: it does 100 potency right off the bat and then 20 potency every 2 seconds for the next 30 seconds. That's 400 potency (100 + 20*15). The closest that any other attack we have gets is Butcher's Block combo, which is only 280. You will want to maintain Fracture *constantly*, even above Butcher's Block, since, as soon as you've set up a decent enmity cushion, you don't really need *more* threat. At that point, it's all about damage.

My default rotation is BB Combo>SE Combo>Fracture>BB Combo>SE Combo: you'll maintain 100% uptime on Fracture while generating all of the enmity you'll ever need (unless you're running with a PAL in Shield Oath spamming Halone, at which point your only hope of keeping threat off of him is just spamming the BB combo without rest).

As for opening, I start with Tomahawk and move into the previously indicated rotation. Tomahawk's 2x threat mod coupled with the Defiance multiplier gives you all the time you need to get into the end of your first BB combo, which will give you *more* than enough threat. More than one BB combo back to back is overkill unless you're undergeared and dealing with a BRD that is amazing at DPS but doesn't know how to use his enmity management skills.

I didn't forget fracture. I have not gotten a consensus that fracture is worth putting up. It has no enmity multiplier and yes it raises DPS, but I'm not sure its long enough to be worth the GCD in regards to enmity. I know for a fact on Paladin its absolute garbage with a 18 sec up time per gcd. And yes you always want more threat. Our guild can currently skip an entire phase in Titan and almost 2 phases on garuda. There can't be an enmity ceiling.

Our main tank has a +1 relic and said he can't storm's eye combo until after 2 block combos. That's where that information was harvested from.