Post by Aleanos
Just gonna post your talents in a build to make it easier for eveyone to see before I begin criticizing it :)
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0EhZhxczZftGbzbdMuaossb
Post by Aleanos
In short, it is a horrible build.
Blood section of your spec:
There's nothing wrong on the blood side, 3/3 SoB works since you'd be hitting alot faster.
Frost section:
Why'd you pick Lichborne? It's far too situational to be of any real use, the number of encounters it is needed can be counted on one hand, skip it.
Unholy section:
Here's where the real mess begins..
- 1/2 epidemic, you really ought to max it out. With UH being very dependant on Diseases it's best to ensure a 100% uptime (especially with the Ebon plaguebringer debuff).
- Unholy command, if you really need to use death grip that much, you're doing it wrong. We already have a "normal" taunt, unholy command is seen as a pvp talent.
- On a pale horse, again this is mainly seen as a pvp talent due to the small amount of stuns/fears there is in PvE these days.
- Night of the dead + master of Ghouls + GF, why? A ghoul doesn't contribute to your threat, it only adds a small amount of dps (it's not worth skipping Impurity for this) A ghoul for pulling is just wrong, it's much better for everyone if you just pull instead.
- 1/3 reaping, I cannot for the life of me understand why you'd only take 1/3, you either max it out or skip it. and for any serious UH buid, it should be maxed out.
- 3/3 wandering plague but 2/3 EP and no SS? With the low critt chance in tanking gear WP's procc rate greatly decreases, making it fully skippable.
- Skipping SS is just wrong, it's your main single target dps strike.
Post by Aleanos
If you insist on DW tanking as UH I'd reccomend something more down the lines of this:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0EZhxcZbghfx0zgI0ocoux(the points in Necrosis/rav. dead being shiftable to where you might see fit)
You also might want to reconsider using the 2% less spell damage taken 50% less silence duration Runeforge. Not all encounters involve spell damage and Silence effects are quite rare.
Instead you might want to be using Rune of Swordbreaking (since every mob can attack you making parry useful everywhere and it's the only "DW tanking" runeforge there is atm).
It is not reccomended that you DW tank because it is atm inferior (there's no use arguing here, it is) to 2-h tanking. Only because you
can tank heroics/naxx with a a build doesn't mean it's a good spec. Also, "Only because you can, doesn't mean you should".
In short, I dont reccomend DW tanking, but who am I to tell you what to do? Besides I also think it's cool to tank whilst DWing so if you dont care much about min/maxing and just want to have fun, be my guest.
But for that purpose, your build certainly doesn't tap all the possible potential from your talents.