Going mad with DK tank macro

[ragawaga]

I had a shot at a single disease rotation (not macro'd) and found that I just wasn't keeping aggro. That's probably a combination of my low gear and the DPS having higher gear.....but for the purposes of gearing up solo....I'll need to be able to keep aggro in these circumstances. It was essentially a rotation of howling blast, obliterate, bloodboil, and blood strike I think.

[ghonosyph]

you should be using death and decay as much as possible when tanking, using glyph of rune tap for the heal*if you go that spec* howling blast and death and decay glyphs

DND gets a huge threat modifier and if you use glyph of howling blast you shouldnt really need glyph of disease, its like double stacking for no reason.

Dnd on every pull, howling blast(if you have the glyph) bloodboil/bloodstrike, depending on the amount of adds. then 2 frost strikes

***EDIT**** you're not gonna get a true rotation from the above, because dnd has a 30 second cooldown and thats roughly 20 seconds worth of abilities, the second portion of the rotation is to plague strike, pest, and oblit the current target. theres a ton of info on elitist jerks.com website in the dk forums, its not entirely focused on our main goals and more suited to raiding specs, but the info is valuable if you care to search thru it

for every aoe pull this is the standard rotation for highest threat output.

you can do something different with icy touch, plague strike, pest, then DnD but you often will lose agro if your alts are aoeing. Given the fact that frost has heavy snap agro you can always go with what you have for single target(with oblit and such) but for aoe dnd howling blast then bloodboil is the only way to do it