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Post by
spookypld
I'm lost when it comes to my weapons choice. I'm Orc DK playing DW Frost Tank. I've:
2x
Nighttime
1x
Falric's Wrist Chopper
1x
Rimefang's Claw
1x
Peacekeeper Blade
1x
Quel'Delar. Might of The Faithful
I could even go for
Quel'Sarrar
None of this is truly satisfying me. I'd like to roll two slow tanking axes. I don't even know if such exists. From what I've - which should I be using?
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Post by
apocalypsa
Just go with dps weapons, and creAte macro to swap weapons, so you can switch to tanking weapon(s) when your threat is ok and you feel like you need the avoidance. Or just go blood with queldelar :)
Post by
woohaa
if you use a tanking weapon it's gonna be fast no matter what you get. if you can get the quel'sarrar or even both that's always nice but the general idea is if you want more threat use 2xdps weapons...like nighttime. if your okay for threat and want more dmg mitigation then go with the tanking weapons. it's your choice really. alot of players use 2xdps weapons at the start of a fight to get a nice lead in threat then switch to tanking weapons for the rest of the fight. So choose what fits you best and go with that.
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Post by
Takenobo
I'd suggest going Blood with Quel. After all, Blood is going to be the dominant tanking tree in Cata, and you have a reason now to get used to it :)
Can we please stop it with the getting used to it business?
We know almost nothing about what the specs will be like in Cataclysm.
I <3 Caean, Kinda tired of seeing this as well. The way blood plays now will more then likely play a whooole lot differently come cata.
Also he asked about using weapons for his dw frost dk, not to be told to go blood.
OP: I wouldn't even consider using the wrist chopper, shield block on there makes it very unattractive to us DKs. Since you are an Orc, I'd put that weapon specialization to work and use 2x nightimes, also I wouldn't exactly consider using "Might of the faithful" as a dw dk it being a 2h and all :P
If you are looking for tank weapons to use, I'd use 2x rimefangs.
If you could get Quel'serrar to drop then awesome for you and I'd rock that along with either a nighttime or the mace from H HoR or even the 1h version on quel'delar
Post by
ZarDoom
DW get twice Marowgar's maces (or are they axes ?) in 10 man.
2H get Ramaladni's blade of culling, purely epic for tanking. Same mode, saurfang.
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Post by
hashmel
Use the best dps weapon available to you for your mainhand and quel'serrar for the offhand.
As you progress, keep an eye out to upgrade your mainhand dps weapon and get last word for your offhand, it has a 100% uptime so long as you have something to hit and the proc treats all incoming heals as if the caster has 300/340 more spell power which is subject to all coefficients and healing modifiers relevant to the heal in question.
Present
MH = Nighttime
OH = Burnished Quel'serrar
Eventually
MH = (H) Havoc's Call, Blade of Lordaeron Kings
OH = (H) Last Word
Post by
woohaa
don't even wear weapons just punch the lich king in his face and then do a spit macro.
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woohaa
yes their gonna completely change blood their gonna come out with 2hand shields. you won't need a weapon and since the shield will be so big you won't be able to see anything but your head sticking out the top. you won't have tanking skills...inorder to hold agro you have to %^&* off the mobs by typing insults. the uglier you make your character the higher your threat multiplier will be. And you'll wear pants with your ass sticking out so you can turn around and moon the boss to generate additional threat.
i'm bored if no one has noticed :(
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Post by
Paolo
Why not just suggest that he reroll pally?
Because that wasn't the question.
You can stop insulting the OP now. He obviously knows what he wants to do. Go have your blood vs. frost convo in your own thread, or your predictions for the future, and assume that he's made his choice intelligently.
@OP
Depends what content you're playing, and who you're playing with. You should be able to hit 535/540 defense fairly easily after some farming. In which case, tanking weapons should not be used, despite their stats. With Nerubian Carapace, you turn dps weapons into tanking weapons. Pick the two slowest dps weapons you can (Nighttime is best for you, or QD). Then in ICC10 you can grab the
axe from Gunship
(best for an orc), the
mace from Fester
or the
sword from Princes
.
By the time you hit ICC25 you'll know what you need :)
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