Holding Agro as a DK tank

[Talos]

Tried that exact setup and build... in my experience barely holds aggro on a single mob (I sometimes have to taunt bosses back off), and doesn't hold aggro on groups worth anything. DnD will mess up the rotation but howling blast and blood boil don't keep mobs interested for very long - a divine storm will rip them right off. I was losing a paladin or two like every pull.

Only different is I didn't have the glyph to proc frost fever from howling blast, but I'm skeptical as to whether a single disease would make all the aggro difference when it was lost so easily before.

There is your problem, for this setup you NEED the howling blast proc to get frost fever on all targets since this helps with DoT-Aggro AND it increases the bloodboil damage and threat

[Hor]

I wrote a guide a while back on my blog for DK tanking. You might find it useful, as a lot of this was figured out while 5 boxing shamans + DK and a mixed group + DK.

Personally, Frost is probably going to be your best bet for tanking heroics. Especially in a group of retadins. You may want to start working on T10 2pc for the DK ASAP so you can get the increased DND damage as well, which also has proven to be a great boon for AE threat.

And I can't stress this enough... macro /cast Runstrike to every ability you use on your DK tank. If the ability is up, you need to use it.

My tanking guide: http://srsbusiness.org/?page_id=235

[Bigfish]

My current build is thus:

Armory is Frostgear of Shadow Council

Glyphs: Howling Blast, Rune Strike, and Death and Decay.

Rotation is: Death and Decay, Howling Blast, horn of winter, blood boil, howling blast, blood boil, blood boil, obliterate, repeat

Tanking macro looks liek thus:

/cast Deathchill
/cast Rune strike
/castsequence reset=combat howling blast, horn of winter, blood boil, howling blast, blood boil,blood boil, obliterate, !death and decay

I also have an exact same macro without deathchill and rune strike, so I can see where in the roatation I am.

Frost strike as a RP dump as necesary.

Holds aggro like nothing else, and typicaly pull 2-3k+ DPS depending on the size of the pull.

[sae6996]

i am a DK tank i tank ICC 10 and 25 every week a paly will always pull agro from us DKs a DK are ment to be the best off tanks not real much for the main tank spot some what like a raid healer trying to be the best tank healing job not a good idea