Well I'm not sure why you are passing over improved icy touch. It's an easy three points and since you will be spreading frost fever in any aoe situation a 6% attack speed drop across a pack has got to be really really nice. Reaping is a pretty nice talent as well. Maintaining a rotation is hard enough when boxing and anything that passively makes it easier to tag out an ability when you need it is always a plus. Toughness is another easy tanking bonus that you can pick up without working down a tree so I think it is worth it. Most of what I've seen on any tank build is a standard 5 toughness, 5 bladebarrier, 5 anticipation, 3 improved icy touch and then working on whatever tree you are going down. I'm not so sure about bladed armor myself..and necrosis/blood caked is nice I suppose since I know I have small breaks where I'm concentrating on something else and autoattack is running. It's probably not good enough to spec into though. Corpse explode sounds cool but I already have enough aoe options on my plate and adding another one would be rough on me so I put the points elsewhere.

Unholy tanking

Here is what I'm running right now and my next points will go into blood barrier then two handed specialization. The last five I'm not so sure about. I have desecration maxed out because I alwasy get in plaguestrikes and 5% more damage with practically 100% uptime with no extra work into a rotation is WIN in my book. The 3/3 in morbidity is sort of meh for me since although I love DnD for the huge hate I quite simply don't have problem keeping aggro and never seem to have the ruins to drop a second one during any given fight. I will probably spec out of it.

Anyhow that is my thoughs on unholy. And my first post here as well.

Allesarelle (Sen'Jin)

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