Post by Eleazer
Jim,
The Build isn't bad it's your basic tanking build for the most part. However, let's take a step back and say that you are going to have a gigantic amount of problems with threat and your glyphs are bad.
1) Morbidity and Hungering Cold will never ever be a good Deep Frost Tank spending of points.
2) Plague Strike and DnD Glyphed over OB or FS glyphed is a mistake always. PS is the single weakest hitting attack out there. All tanks will be using a HB/PS/BS/BS type method with the boost to Blood Plague.
3) Pestilence is just awful for a glyph there is absolutely no point to it if you are glyphed for HB. It is a bad glyph no matter what spec you are tanking in except it has some validity for Blood I think.
4) Having said all that Acclimation and virulence will be better if you are looking for extra points. Scent of Blood is better also for runic generation.
5) Let me reiterate there is no such thing as a powerful Plague Strike. Every attack in the game is more powerful, the only point to use PS is to get Blood Fever on the target. Spending points in Necrosis is better than buffing Plague Strike.
6) Using Plague Strike takes away from Obliterate which is a major part of your rotation. Using more Plague Strikes has nothing to do with Frost Strike as they use 2 entirely seperate costs. So you are taking away your most effective attack for your least effective attack. Also how does BT affect PS, BT = 1 free Blood rune = PS uses Unholy not sure your correlation there.
7) Blood Strike has been reduced and is still weaker than Frost/Heart/Scourge strike. But it is a bit more powerful, while FS is a bit weaker. It is not a huge nerf just enough where the 8-9K crits on a regular basis are gone.
Finally, I have no idea what you are talking about for your 6th point. For a deep frost glyphed HB tank your rotation is the same no matter what. It won't change in the new patch and it shouldn't change now. The only difference is that you will have to fit PS into the beginning of your cycle, but you should be doing that now anyways. (editor's note: PS at the beginning of the cycle on an Icy Touch pull to give you added threat on bosses for initial pulls, I watched a Frost tank in VoA not use an Icy Touch/PS boss pull and everyone had to wait to attack. Nystali is correct it is much better on initial target threat than simply Howling Blast on a boss)
The Deep Frost DK tank spec will remain the same for the new patch as a 2h there is no difference unless you wanted to do something like
http://ptr.wowhead.com/?talent#j0xzZhxxzAbIoc0buzhZcg0hx0d:asAMV0 which has already been proven to be ineffective in threat generation.
Let's clean this up pretty quickly, 2hand deep frost tank builds will not change we just have a few more play buttons to pick up Acclimation, Epidemic, lichborne or Chill of the Grave I am really excited about that one. without it affecting our overall build.
