Death Knight Tank questions

[Saoul]

Running with an unholy -with a wee bit of blood- DK and the rotation is;

use 14
use 13
cast !rune strike
castsequence reset=8 icy touch, plague strike, pestilence, scourge strike, blood strike, scourge strike, !death and decay
startattack
targetlasttarget

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...ather&n=Shawee


This allows for both single and multi pull tanking and maintains aggro when Shammies are putting out up to 5000 dps+ . The DK's dps is 1500+, higher with more mobs than single. Desecration is wonderfull for slowing down mobs, but ebon plague increasing magical damage by 13% allows very quick boss finishing power. Even when hooking up primary tanking macro with primary team dps macro the tank hold aggro very well.

Two handed tanking over dual wield because to dual wield you have to run as frost which would loose you the 13% magical damage buff from ebonplague and rune of the gargoyle is only availiable for 2 handed weapons (although this may change next patch). Without rune of the gargoyle you may struggle to make yourself def capped.

[Noids]

Running with an unholy -with a wee bit of blood-

Maybe you should see a doctor about that


The links Diwa posted are probably your best resources for sure.

Personally I have a DK tank for my team and I have an unholy spec for running 5 mans with them that gives me ebon plague for ripping through heroics. I also have a blood spec for raid tanking which gives the best survivability and single target threat.

For a newly geared DK tank, I would recommend with starting using a frost build (see EJ for specifics) as this is the least gear dependant and gives good defensive abilities whilst having the best multi and very good single target threat.

Cheers