Blood Leveling / tank spec (lvl 63)

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Post by felknight

The spec isnt bas for tanking pre northrend, it could be better by moving into the unholy tree a bit, but for Outlands your spec is fine for tanking.

Once you get into Northrend, your spec wont hold up very well in lvl 68-72 groups, you will start to see huge damage spikes especialy from bosses due to the lack of avoidance and mitigation that you have missed from either unholy or frost.

Good for you though going a none cookie cutter build and making it work for you,

Dont be dissapointed though when you get to Northrend and find you cant do DPS and Tank well with your full Blood build , thats the time to decide if you want to tank very well and be able to offer decent DPS, or to DPS very well and be able to Off Tank semi well.

On a side note, if your taking healing route for restoration and survivability, take Vampiric Blood, it can be the difference between life and death in a boss fight if you get a bad damage spike.

Post by Achloryn

i have to agree with what felknight said above me.. the difference in difficulty of dungeons and bosses between OL and NR is abo@#$%ly insane. you can DK tank in outland without any of the real "tanking" talents and be fine.. but try going to Nexus or Utgarde Keep, and you'll find a healer who complains about running out of mana a lot, or just simply cannot keep you up. I tried tanking Nexus for some guildies at lvl 76 with an unholy build that was designed for PURE dps but has almost NO tanking talents. The healer was a 71 holy priest and he had a difficult time keeping me up (especially against the crystaline boss and the dragon boss at the end.. he actually couldn't keep me up for the dragon. we wiped a couple times before he ended up getting on his 80 holy pally). lol

the difference is just... absolutely ridiculous between outland and northrend. (btw here's my DK's armory if you're interested. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Ner%27zhul&n=Wart%C3%B5%C3%B5th... it took me a LONG time to find a really good DPS build that i liked, but i was doing the test dummies in ebon hold the other day and knocked a 1700+dps with this build. i didn't used to like unholy, but now that i understand the mechanics of the DK better than i did before, i just made up this talent as i went along and zomg.. this is an insane build)