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Death Knight Cataclysm (85) Tanking Guide
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DraconisAerius
I ran with a guildy's Holy Paladin (who is in fresh 80 gear and a 1h sword BoA and a lv74 shield from Drak'theron Keep) in Heroic Violet Hold last night. My Death Knight is sitting at 42k health unbuffed, and I turned a whole mess of Dodge into Mastery.
Between
his mastery
and mine, I took nearly no damage. He was bored. I was stoked.
How was your repair bill after that?
Alcotraz, love the guide. Voted for sticky. It's nice to see you leading from the front.
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apocalypsa
Awesome guide. I suppose I gotta update my pvp sticky now, and find another dps spec to be pro in :( PvP will prolly just be proposed to cata though, not going to make a whole guide just for unrated bg's... which you should run as blood with dps gear, its amazing.
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sillybuns
This is a great guide, thank you Alcotraz.
I'm not fond of the 30 second DnD cooldown, back to basics now, right? Is tanking harder now? Or is it just revamped? That blood shield looks pretty helpful though, i think we needed that ...
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Foopeemoa
I finally got around to trying out my DK since the patch (5 80s doesn't help). I was previously dw frost tank, so I was hesitant about tanking without howling blast. But after running 1 heroic everything felt right again. I will say that aoe tanking is significantly easier on the DK now than on my warrior, whereas before the patch is was pretty comparable in 5-mans. I specced the "standard" blood tank spec, however partway through the first run I gave up on diseases except for single target boss fights.
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zearamoth
(I also vote for a sticky btw)
But I've got a question, is it worth to take a festering strike in my "rotation"?
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sillybuns
I haven't really played since the patch, but what i wanted to know is, do we, or can we still rush heroics like we did before? Or do we take it slower now? I only say this because DnD was never up each pull since the mobs die so quickly, people always tell me to hurry up when i always prefer to have it up when i pull.
Since we can play diseaseless i'll assume they aren't a huge playing factor in our threat, but rather the debuffs.
Do we have festering strike yet? I can't even remember. If that's unholy only though i don't need to worry, i never dps.
I'm glad they didn't change the 2-piece tier 10, i liked my strong decay's.
Diseases still make blood boil stronger, don't they? Well, at least 1 disease i mean.
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apocalypsa
Gloves is +600 armor, quite worth it imo.
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Eremitt
Is anyone having problems with threat vs other tanks?
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