Comments on: DK tanking for Starters http://www.wow-track.com/2010/01/22/dk-tanking-for-starters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dk-tanking-for-starters World of Warcraft news Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Toothdk http://www.wow-track.com/2010/01/22/dk-tanking-for-starters/comment-page-1/#comment-5233 Toothdk Wed, 12 May 2010 15:42:29 +0000 http://www.wow-track.com/?p=1832#comment-5233 Very nice post. Very nice post.

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]]> By: tomuko http://www.wow-track.com/2010/01/22/dk-tanking-for-starters/comment-page-1/#comment-5134 tomuko Tue, 11 May 2010 05:27:38 +0000 http://www.wow-track.com/?p=1832#comment-5134 Great starters guide. I have been a huge fan of frost for tanking solely for Howling Blast. Each pull drop a DnD, HB, and 2 Blood Boils gives you instant threat on all your mobs that (knock on wood) nobody has been able to pull off me. Plus it gets Blade Barrier up. While you definitely hit on the awesomeness of getting a Killing Machine and Rime procs for Howling Blast, I do believe that some mention should go to the usefulness of the HB glyph, which puts Frost Fever on all the targets hit. Something also worth mentioning is the massively increased threat from the newly improved Icy Tough. From my own single target testing, I have found that in terms of threat generation, you get so much more by ignoring Death Strike and using every death rune to throw another Icy Touch. Doing that seems to make DK's the new single target threat kings. Great starters guide.

I have been a huge fan of frost for tanking solely for Howling Blast. Each pull drop a DnD, HB, and 2 Blood Boils gives you instant threat on all your mobs that (knock on wood) nobody has been able to pull off me. Plus it gets Blade Barrier up.

While you definitely hit on the awesomeness of getting a Killing Machine and Rime procs for Howling Blast, I do believe that some mention should go to the usefulness of the HB glyph, which puts Frost Fever on all the targets hit.

Something also worth mentioning is the massively increased threat from the newly improved Icy Tough. From my own single target testing, I have found that in terms of threat generation, you get so much more by ignoring Death Strike and using every death rune to throw another Icy Touch. Doing that seems to make DK’s the new single target threat kings.

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]]> By: Remnoth http://www.wow-track.com/2010/01/22/dk-tanking-for-starters/comment-page-1/#comment-4637 Remnoth Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:42:17 +0000 http://www.wow-track.com/?p=1832#comment-4637 Very nice guide. I have been a frost dk tank ever since i had first made it in Wotlk first release. Never had any problems with tanking untill heroics and raids (with pick up groups) its either as tank out dpsing all the dps, or the dps going damage happy and doing about 8-9k dps, and start dpsing before you get the chance to even pull. Then continue to go full blown dps on the target they have aggro on, and complain that the tank sucks when you have 4 other mobs to take care of. This is the only thing i hate when im tanking, and it made me switch to get a dps set and just stay unholy dps. If only dps these days knew how to do their job..but nice details anyway, i use these rotations also and they work fine for 98% of the time. Very nice guide. I have been a frost dk tank ever since i had first made it in Wotlk first release. Never had any problems with tanking untill heroics and raids (with pick up groups) its either as tank out dpsing all the dps, or the dps going damage happy and doing about 8-9k dps, and start dpsing before you get the chance to even pull. Then continue to go full blown dps on the target they have aggro on, and complain that the tank sucks when you have 4 other mobs to take care of. This is the only thing i hate when im tanking, and it made me switch to get a dps set and just stay unholy dps. If only dps these days knew how to do their job..but nice details anyway, i use these rotations also and they work fine for 98% of the time.

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]]> By: Dkeater http://www.wow-track.com/2010/01/22/dk-tanking-for-starters/comment-page-1/#comment-2337 Dkeater Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:20 +0000 http://www.wow-track.com/?p=1832#comment-2337 Just to say DK tanking is pretty hard but with this guide it gave me alot of other tricks and tips i didn't know. Not sure if he covered this but the best rune-forging enchant to use is the stoneskin garoyle gives you a minor def and stam buff. Thankyou for making this extremely helpful guide. Just to say DK tanking is pretty hard but with this guide it gave me alot of other tricks and tips i didn’t know. Not sure if he covered this but the best rune-forging enchant to use is the stoneskin garoyle gives you a minor def and stam buff. Thankyou for making this extremely helpful guide.

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]]> By: Jimison http://www.wow-track.com/2010/01/22/dk-tanking-for-starters/comment-page-1/#comment-2129 Jimison Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:17:09 +0000 http://www.wow-track.com/?p=1832#comment-2129 Great post. You missed a few key things, but they're the sort of tricks that separate good tanks from great ones, so I won't spoil the fun in learning them yourselves. (One hint to get you started: you forget something very useful about AMS...) Great post. You missed a few key things, but they’re the sort of tricks that separate good tanks from great ones, so I won’t spoil the fun in learning them yourselves. (One hint to get you started: you forget something very useful about AMS…)

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