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I don't know about that, but when I was trying Unholy Tank, I didn't really have a problem with Koralon and Twin Valks. I do prefer DW Frost though as I can build a huge amount of threat quickly with
ToT
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How can you say that ToT builds threat quickly compared to not having the talent and simply using a 2H weapon? I've gone back to Frost tanking for the new ICC 5mans because trash pulls are just easier with HB and the glyph.
The problem with DW tanking is that your strikes are now being rolled for twice to determine how they land on the boss. Ultimately, you're going to lose out on threat, since the overall damage done will be the same or less (when comparing most pair of 1H weapons to a comparable 2H), plague strike and blood strike are still only based of MH damage, and your white hits will be missing far more than a 2H would. You also sacrifice talent points that go towards 4% more weapon damage, extended disease duration (which means more Obliterates), and added damage/threat to targets below 35% health.
I honestly think that Blizzard put DW tanking into the game to make the common folk happy that it "looks cool". It simply doesn't stand up to the single target threat generation or survivability of Blood, nor does it actually add anything significantly beneficial over Frost 2H.
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Blizzard intends to keep 2hander DK tank as the preferred way to tank with a DK, but put DWing option in there as something for people to play around with. Personally if your stat is lacking hit/expertise stay away from DW tanking...PLS for the sake of other players! Just cause there's an option to do it doesnt mean you should do it.
It's kind of annoying when a DK roll on a 1hander tanking weapon and wins it from a deserving warrior or pally tank.
And yeah, the ICC 5 mans have crazy group pulls, especially when 2-3 of them are casters or range! It's nice when you bring classes that can cc them. You can't just enter these new instances and think you can blast through them like the classic heroics w/o having to cc any of them.
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