Self-Analysis

So, I've been coming to realise something over the past few days.

I suck in PVP as a warrior.  Oh, I can get in there and whack some people and generally make myself a nuisence, but once I have a rogue or warrior jumping around me, I'm turning in place blindly like an odd, sword-weilding spinning top. 

See, I use a combination of the keyboard and the mouse to move.  I use the mouse to look around and the WASD keys to actually move.  So when I need to use abilities, I then sometimes press the numbers, but usually click.  Yup.  I'm a clicker.  There, I said it.

When healing, I use HealBot.  I find that it lets me easily keep the tank targeted, and throw HoTs up on the rest of the raid.  In PVP, it means that I can be running around like a loon, playing "ring around the LOS breakers" or "catch the druid" and still click to heal without stopping.  I can keep somebody busy for ages by throwing some HoTs on, shifting to travel form and going madkittydashcrazy.   Toss in a cyclone or roots in there and I'm golden.

Even on my hunter, I'm mostly in ranged.  I can kite, using the jump-shot (run, jump-spin, shoot, finish-spin, run), which I use the mouse to move for, but it's not my prefered tactics.

Then you come to my warrior.  I'm sure with practice I could get the technique of running circles and spamming my hits, but I'm intending just to PVP with her for my season 1 shield.  So she gets beaten easily by those people who can do that.

Looking at PVE, there just aren't many situations where, as a tank, you have to run around.  Maybe Curator, chasing the flares.  Other than that, it's generally pretty small movements.  Even as a healer or ranged DPS, most battles require standing in one spot.  PVP just has rules all of it's own.

So, I'll continue to heal in arenas and do it well enough, but I doubt I'll be going Mortal Strike spec'd and rocking with my warrior anytime soon.  And that's okay.  I enjoy tanking, and it's always good to know your own falldowns.