Note: Some of the issues mentioned are not necessarily things everyone will agree on (myself included). I'm only trying to consolidate the massive amount of information on the forums to make it easier to process. Also, this is not meant to be a discussion (edit: but GC turned that around pretty easily!). I definitely missed a few things, and I will be reading threads here and there to try to get a complete list.

Design philosophy
- What is Blizzard's vision for the Warrior class?
- Warriors seem to have been trimmed over the years, with MoP being the coup de grâce for many of us unless something changes.
- In relation to the previous point, our skill ceiling seems to be going down by quite a bit in MoP, leaving us to wonder if Blizzard still stands by their well-known 'Easy to pick-up, hard to master' philosophy.

General
- Warbringer, Bladestorm and Stormbolt seem much weaker than the alternatives.
- Dragon Roar can knock targets into your deadzone.
- The level 75 tier is too Protection-focused.
- Deadly Calm, Deathwish, Inner Rage (T13 2pc could be baseline), Berserker Rage (the increased rage from damage part), Rend and Lambs to the Slaughter (for the upkeep mostly, ramp-up could be toned down) are all gone. These seemingly insignificant, quality of life, or downright confusing changes all contributed to losing the class and specs' identities and overall enjoyability.
- Warriors need another baseline offensive CD. For those choosing Stormbolt, you're left with only Recklessness, which is on a 5 min CD.
- War Banners:

> Underwhelming effects considering their duration and cooldown.
> Skull banner is a talent we used to have, and the effect was permanent. Granted, it affects the whole raid now which is great.
* An increased personal bonus would make it more appealing, especially when soloing.
> Demoralizing Banner is also an ability we used to have.
* Not only is it weak (basically an extra Thunderclap), but considering the limited range and the fact that it's an applied debuff leads us to think it will be useless for many raid mechanics.

- Fury and Arms are too similar.
- The increase in CD of the main DPS abilities (MS/BT) contributes in making the rotations feel dull.
- Enrage in its current form is not an interesting mechanic, and is detrimental to Fury.
- Extremely low crit rate across all specs.
- The new Rage system is too predictable.
- Berserker stance is severely under-tuned in both PVP and PVE.
- Berserker stance may be too hard to balance to be a long term solution.
- Stances being on the GCD is annoying and clunky (for lack of better words).
- Spell Reflection's nerf back to 30 seconds feels unwarranted. Either the Shield Requirement needs to go or the CD needs to be shorter.
- Shield requirements are bad because:

> They force you to create macros and update them regularly.
> They force you to use the clunky weapon-swapping system. That clunkiness sometimes leads to being CCed with the Spell Reflection buff active, among other frustrating situations.
> They force you to gimp your damage way too much when compared to other classes.

- Our self-healing is much too weak.
- Health pools (which affects all of our self-heals) are not equal across our 'three' DPS specs because of the different weapon sets. Currently, TG >>> Arms > SMF.
- Throw is too weak!
- Our utility does not compete with other classes'.
- Early warrior leveling is a complete bore due to a lack of damaging abilities.

Arms
- The rotation is very bland/dull:

> All of our attacks except for Colossus Smash essentially do the same thing: Deal direct damage. We need more interaction between abilities. As far as PVE is concerned, MS, Slam, OP and HS need to be differ in more aspects than rage cost and damage (deep wounds doesn't count since it doesn't actually do anything but deal damage).
> We had an extremely low crit rate for practically all of Cataclysm, and it's looking even worse for MoP with the removal/change of a few key talents.
> The old Taste for Blood is better than the new one because:

-> OP procs were independent of your normal rotation (since Rend wasn't tied to anything) which added dynamism and a certain flexibility to the gameplay.
-> The first point combined with the increased crit rate allowed you to delay Overpower to chain two procs in a row for a short, controlled burst of damage.
-> The 30% chance to get another OP proc lacks depth. Simply boring, and even annoying at times.

- Too much is tied to Mortal Strike (especially crippling in PVP):

> Rage gain.
> Mortal wounds.
> Deep wounds.
> Overpower procs.
> Second hardest-hitting ability without counting Execute.

- You do not feel like you're crushing faces (the 'oomph' factor).
- Too much of your damage is from auto-attacking.

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