Prot Pally Blacksmith...Beginning To Think I'm An IdiotFollow

So...I've got a protection pally I made, and my trade skills are currently mining and blacksmithing. My blacksmithing is currently at 210 or so (I forget the exact number) and I'm looking at picking a specialization. The thought occurs to me, though, that I'm not going to get any use out of the end-game items (the level 70 BOPs) that a blacksmith can make.

2-handers are obviously of no use as a tank, so those are out. The one-handers aren't particularly good for a pally tank either (the one-hand sword is good for warrior tanks, but not so much for pally tanks, since it has no spell damage). The level 70 plate seems pretty decent, but I seem to recall reading a thread in the warrior forum where TheIsDeKwant implied that the bulwark of ancient kings (and blacksmithing in general) is fairly worthless for a protection pally.

So, I suppose what I'm asking is whether or not people think I'd be better off dropping blacksmithing in favor of another skill (I'm thinking enchanting) or do I just march on and hope to find some use for my blacksmithing skill?

I'd keep mining, both to sell ores, and to pass them off to my shaman alt (who is currently jewelcrafting, which I'm not overly happy with and thinking of switching to blacksmithing for the awesome level 70 axes), but like I said, I'm thinking of dropping blacksmithing, most likely in favor of enchanting. Is it worth the effort?

I dunno im a prot pally and i have my skill at 374... and for a prot pally its nice to have all those armors available.. You can make khorium set for plus spell damage. You can make your epic chestpiece which although its more suited to warriors still is the best chestpiece available so far. And also with rep in aldor or scryer you can make either awesome FR gear or AR gear. If your looking to be decked out in your craftable items, its not gonna happen. But i am happy with being an armorsmith.

It's an L, not an I. And just Thels will do :P

But yeah, BS seems pretty useless as the only useful tanking items are BoE, and you can thus let someone else make them. The only useful healing items are BoE as well, to make things worse. As if Blizzard never wanted pallies to use BS. I wore a lot of my own crafted gear up to my late 40s, but after that, it went crap.

Then again, I spent way too much gold in it to dump it now. And who knows, maybe Blizzard will reconsider and make some BoP tanking items. I'm an armorsmith, cuz I like the 'protection'ish feel of that. But it all blows :(.

If you want to make tanking gear, roll Engineering. Those goggles are really nice, and 90 stamina from trinkets alone ain't bad.