Prot soloingFollow

Best you can do is soloing multiple targets with cleave. For me, I just pull one mob at a time, burn it down in about 45 seconds using Shield Slam as much as possible, and then moving to the next mob. When I get multiple mobs I use cleave sometimes but for the most part I still just take down one at a time. It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It does take a little longer to do quests and stuff, but in general I can solo everything that anyone else can. I soloed tons of Group quests in Nagrand, Shadowmoon Valley, and Netherstorm. Even some 70 elites I soloed with relative ease as a prot warrior.

Make sure to pick up improved sunder, One-handed weapon specilization and devastate. Once you have that, grab two one handed weapons. Put a slower one in your mainhand, faster one in your offhand.

Charge the mob, spam devastate on it. The slower nature of your mainhand will cause the devastate to hit for more. The faster offhand will cause you to gain rage faster.

Avoid leveling as Prot. DPS specs can tank sufficiently well for pre-65 instances. You can mix in a few Prot talents (I liked Tactical Mastery), and possibly go down to Defiance to make tanking very easy, but more than that is excess imo.

As a few other people have said in this thread, if you do end up DPSing/soloing as Prot then put on your DPS gear (preferably with +hit) and Dual Wield with Devastate spam.

Personally I found the DPS in the warrior non-DPS spec (prot) to be better than the DPS in the shaman non-DPS spec (resto).

I know that for a long while Prot wasn't considered a grinding spec, but recently have been hearing alot from various warriors who say they wear their shield in order to not have the higher miss chance dual wield brings, or something along those lines, haven't really looked to much into those mechanics to much.

That is what mainly procc'd my question to begin with. Thanks all for the answers. I'll keep my Troll Fury specced for the time being.

I've tried both things. Dual-wielding with a DPS set on and spamming Devastate works pretty well for me. Mobs go down quickly, and Devastate does some nice damage. I didn't find I was missing too badly. I switched from Fury over to Prot at around level 67, though. I wanted to be able to get into the higher level instances, but was having trouble finding groups as DPS. There's a shortage of tanks on Drenden, it seems. I don't think that levelling as Prot would be very efficient at all if you couldn't get all the way down to Devastate and pick up the other necessary talents. Also, DPS is definitely higher in the Fury tree. It's easy enough to kill mobs spamming Devastate, but it's even easier with Flurry up.

Since hitting 70, I pretty much stick with my sword and shield. Spamming Shield Slam does some decent damage, and I like being able to kill several mobs in a row without having to eat or bandage. I wouldn't want to have to kill that way for levelling, though, as it can be time consuming. Grinding on mobs isn't as big of an issue at 70, though, so I just don't bother to switch my gear all the time. Saves on repair bills, too.