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Some Tanking help, please
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Wyrmnax
Good morning/afternoon/evening/plagueblight/whatever.
I am quite new to Death Knight. I just recently reached 80, and i am trying to tank for the first times.
I have quite a bit of experience on both healing and DPSing, but i am completely new to tanking.
That said, When i am tanking a single mob, i usually have little trouble keeping it focused on myself. Sometimes it will turn on others, but those are usually rare times and it happens mostly when i am fighting with people much more well geared than i am.
But i am having a definite trouble when doing AoE tanking.
I usually start my AoE rotation, and have the main target off chasing someone else. Then i am forced to Dark Command, and i will struggle to keep that one on me for the rest of the fight. The others will stay, no issues, as long as people dont go too trigger happy on AoE.
I think my problem my be my rotation. AoE, it goes like this:
Death and Decay -> Plague Strike -> Icy Touch -> Pestilence and im out of runes. Hungering Cold if i have the Runic Power, and goes back to Plague Strike -> Icy Touch -> Pestilence -> Blood Boil -> Howling Blast.
The second part leaves me with 1 Unholy rune unused. Could it be tweaked somehow?
Also, currently i am using a 2 handed weapon, with a 15/51/5 spread for tanking. As far as i understand, i would be better served by going with Dual Wield, but i`m not really keen on doing that as i currently have a purple two hander ( Titansteel Destroyer ), and i will have nothing near to that on one hand. Well, i might be close to getting the purple Honor Hold Weapon, and i could probably make a push for it, but my offhand will likely suck for a bit.
Also, please not that im talking mostly about Heroics right now. With blues and greens, giving me ~22k HP and Armor i do not think im fit to tank any raid yet. But the plan is to go off to tank raids some day, so if i can have some idea of what i will need to change to do so it would be appreciated.
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