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madwonko
After 3 unsuccessful heroic dungeons runs I am starting to worry that something is not right with my guy:
Frost Tank
. Am i doing something terribly wrong?
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sushigaski
I see that you are dual wielding eternally folded blades. I'm assuming you're doing that to get defense capped. A two-hander with the Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle will yield more defense, more HP, and more threat. Even just that one change will put you in a much better spot.
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GenXCub
So, you say you tank Naxx 25 easily, yet you have no drops from it, and you've never killed Saph or KT according to your achievements. You take Acclimation and Chillblains in your build at the expense of a lot of attack power and runic power generation via Scent of Blood and Chill of the Grave + Bladed Armor... Very situational talents on top of Chillblains being nearly useless (since you can't chill bosses, it's purely for trash, which you wouldn't need if you have aggro).
Sam is quite an accomplished DK, and has a lot to contribute towards someone having issues tanking.
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PTsICU
I use this spec...
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0EbZhxx0AbIoc0iost0xh:TkaVM0
Now this is just doing heroics, not raiding.....so ymmv.
As for equipment.....start working on badges, even if you have to get in groups as dps. Do those daily tourny quests until you can buy the 2hs, unless you have the gold to by the titansteel destroyer. Your hit is very low, and using 1 handed weapons makes it even worse.
If you have a friend who does jewelry, get the crafted ring and neck piece. And start working on your reputations for the rewards. Run HoL regular for the trinket....since you can run it more than once......it should be doable, and you should be able to tank it fairly easy since most people are below 80 that do regular and won't pull agro as much.
Using something like my link above, you should be able to hold agro on most things. Drop DnD, Howling Blast, then tab thru the mobs to get a whack on them, and they should die before you have problems.
I had never tanked before a couple of months ago, and due to necessity, spec'd my DK out and started working on equipment. And even my noob self can do it without much trouble, so you can too =)
One side note, if when you lose those 1hs and go to 2hand you find yourself below the defense cap......go get this
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44198
since you have the reputation.....and slap a +22 defense enchant on it. That should allow you some wiggle room to work with.
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Eleazer
I wasn't going to post, but some of these posts are just ridiculous.
1. Glyph of UBA is not worth giving up Glyph of Frost STrike or Glyph of DnD. It's a pvp glyph nothing more.
2. Your spec is fine though Morbidity is more for beginning tanks. Subversion is unnecessary as that point can be spent in better places.
3. DW tanking is awful pre 3.2 and not very good after 3.2. So drop it get The Greatsword of the Sindori and this will help alot with initial threat production
4.
Read the Stickies especially Nystali's tanking guide
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As for the other posts, I dont' have time to single anyone out, but if you need UBA glyph your healer is really bad 20 percent is not enough of a percentage to give up FS glyph. Morbidity is only needed if you need a 2nd DnD which as a frost tank you shouldn't need. Speccing Blood/Frost is just really bad. Blood/Unholy is the way you should go if you want blood.
IBF is your friend spam it, use it, love it. Same with UBA and AMS. I use them every chance I can.
A big tip is to get rid of Blood runes as quickly as possible, so Blade Barrier will proc. I have actually revamped my rotation to get rid of my two Blood runes before my Oblit just so Blade Barrier gets up.
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