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Blood tanking vs Frost tanking
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Post by
Fyuu
I swear if I see one more tank build with Rune Tap in it...
Ditch it. Take Blood Gorged (especially over Necrosis). Sure, 10% ArP isn't
much
but virtually ALL of Blood's attacks are physical, so it's a compulsory threat bonus. Also, you'll benefit from the dmg bonus more often than you think, particulary when VB is up (seeing as the % of healing you will recieve will likely overheal you for a good portion of the cooldown).
Also, take Improved Icy Touch in the Frost tree if no-one else in your raid is going to apply the debuff. If you don't raid with a regular group, I'd recommend it just in case.
The rest of the spec is quite on the ball, but I still want to shiv you for the Rune Tap thing. Nothing personal.
Post by
Thror
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drak%27thul&n=Sakkii
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drak%27thul&cn=Gossu&gn=PHGP
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drak%27thul&cn=Quett&gn=Conspiracy
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drak%27thul&cn=Behe&gn=Ira+Dei
Four top DK tanks of Drak'Thul...and all of them have
Rune Tap
. Their builds are ToGC25-tested, which is enough of a proof that they dont fail.
This is my blood build:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Drak%27thul&n=Thr%C3%B3r&group=2
The spec the OP suggests is pretty bad though.
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Fyuu
Four top DK tanks of Drak'Thul...and all of them have Rune Tap. Their builds are ToGC25-tested, which is enough of a proof that they dont fail.
And...? Just because they take Rune Tap doesn't mean that they garner regular, practical use from the talent outside of situational fights. I sympathize with Italiandk; these players could very well be taking the talent for flavour or for a particular occurance. The problem here is the consistant desire of newbie tanks to take the talent because they somehow feel it will save their arse when they screw up; possibly one of the biggest fallacies of DK tanking. Chances are, it won't (Vampiric Blood is usually a much better use of a Blood rune in these circumstances anyway).
To offer a psuedo-analogy; my Blood DK tank has Corpse Explosion as a mainstay in his build. A lot of people criticize me for the choice, but I take it for the same reason as mentioned above. Taking the talent doesn't automatically turn me into a lower-class player, but the motivation might if it's not valid.
That's my major complaint.
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Post by
maverikku
This is what Blizzard is talking about when they describe how happy they are with DKs not having a "tanking tree". They like having all these flavor talents for people to choose from.
If you're uncrittable, have a reasonable amount of health for the content your tanking and dont have severe threat issues and have a couple points you wanna slide around for situational flavor talents.... who gives a #$%^?
Have fun.
It's still a game.
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Post by
Orranis
I take Blood Tap, simply because things don't always go as planned, and pretty much everything else I would spend the points on goes to threat, so as long as I keep aggro (Which I do...) then there's no point not to drop a very noteworthy heal on myself during say, XT's tantrum so that the healers can go bother elsewhere.
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Orranis
This is what Blizzard is talking about when they describe how happy they are with DKs not having a "tanking tree". They like having all these flavor talents for people to choose from.
If you're uncrittable, have a reasonable amount of health for the content your tanking and dont have severe threat issues and have a couple points you wanna slide around for situational flavor talents.... who gives a #$%^?
Have fun.
It's still a game.
I know you guys think you're all cool and neutral, it's just that not everyone sees it that way. Just because I could tank Ulduar in my crazy weird special build, doesn't mean they won't laugh in my face and choose the Paladin.
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maverikku
I know you guys think you're all cool and neutral, it's just that not everyone sees it that way. Just because I could tank Ulduar in my crazy weird special build, doesn't mean they won't laugh in my face and choose the Paladin.
You do realize (as bolded in the quoted reply above) that Im referring to a handful of talent points at most. Not some crazy weird hybrid special talent build.
I'm talking Corpse Explosion over Mark of Blood... or Chillblains over Acclimation... or whatever.
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