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Frost Tanking Spec. Opinions Please?
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Post by
Zxian
Have a look at the Frost spec on my DK below. I've been using that for tanking random heroics without too much difficulty.
As a frost player, you should
never
use Death Strike. If your healer is having trouble keeping you alive, that's their problem, not yours.
At lvl 74, get a blacksmith to craft you two
Savage Cobalt Slicers
. They'll help out with threat quite a bit.
Make sure you stick to the usual information about macroing Rune Strike to all your abilities.
Post by
woohaa
if your frost, always use obliterate, unless you know your threat is high enough to not need it.
also put a couple points into
scent of blood
unholy command
and
necrosis
aren't really needed in frost dw tank specs.
virulence
,
epidemic
,
ravenous dead
are some talents you might want to look into. virulence just helps with your spell hit and is optional, epidemic is pretty self explanatory and also optional, ravenous dead will increase str. dks get parry rating from str and also you'll get more threat overall. Also if your worried about threat you can also look into bladed armor instead of necrosis. an increase to your AP will affect all your attacks instead of just your auto attacks
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woohaa
necrosis provides only single target threat. getting bladed armor you get a huge boost in ap especially as a tank in frost presence. All the attacks you'll be using will benefit from the ap increase. also you may want to macro runestrike like zxian mentioned. it's relatively easy
#showtooltip
/cast obliterate
/cast !rune strike
since
rune strike
is a on-next-swing attack which procs off of your dodges and parries. you'll want to use it whenever it procs. it's a high source of single target threat and doesn't use a global cool down. the macro will make it so while your spamming your buttons if runestrike procs you'll queue it up without toggling it off again by pressing the button twice.
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