Stats, soft caps, and another questions ...

[aladir]

Well, first of all sorry for my very very bad english.

I´ve played my warrior as a prot for BC, but in WoTLK I rerolled to Fury. Pre-Ulduar I was always in top dps. With TG nerf, as every fury warrior, my numbers have been reduced. That´s not the problem.

This is my armory link: The World of Warcraft Armory

With this gear I´m in 20% armor penetration. The question is, should I lost more crit and perhaps strenght in exchange of raise up more ArP?

Ulduar´s items are lowing my crit, raising my ArP. But before Ulduar I was in 40% crit rating. Now is near 36,5%. What is the aproppiate Crit rating, or more exactly, the correct balance between crit rating and ArP?

And about soft caps, what hit value is recommended?

Another time, sorry for my english, and thanks for reading this.

[Rampart]

Short answer: probably not.
Long answer: You should plug your gear into a spreadsheet, which can be found on the EJ forums, and see how you can get the highest theoretical DPS with different gem setups. Generally speaking though, ArP doesn't surpass Str in value until about the 30-35% ArP mark.

The yellow or special hit cap is 8%. Since you already receive 3% from talents, you require 5% hit from gear, or 164 rating. For Arms, 262 rating is required.

A quick comment about your gear is that your meta only requires you to use 2 blue gems. You are using 3, and thus are losing out on 8 Str.