DPS gear is not to have a lot of HP.
Still lately I tend to DPS in PvP gear in heroic PuGs or semi PuGs.
It is nice to ba able to be able to take a few hits after stealing aggro.
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if anything, your tank should always assign dps to burn down a caster mob first with you "offtanking" it, since warriors can mitigate physical damage but not magical damage. when i do heroic mgt or any other heroic, that's what i always do and then build up a lot of threat on the second/third/fourth kill targets, so by the time dps gets done burning skull they can go all out on X immediately afterwards.
Err? Making your life easier on expence of poor DPS/OT?
DPS warrior will not be able to OT target that is to be "burnt down" by any semi decent DPS. He will loose aggro if he uses tank set. He might have a chance if he uses DPS or even better PvP gear but he needs a very good gear to survive dps tanking in heroic instance.
On the other hand you as protection warrior can do it easily.
So the right order should be skull goes to MT cross goes to OT and all additionaly tanked targets to MT.