It’s official. Not that we weren’t expecting it – with Blood being the tanking tree, and the presences being changed accordingly so that you’re not in the Blood tree in Frost presence tanking, it would only make sense that they’d remove the threat multiplier for Icy Touch in Frost Presence. Still (though *ahem* I’ve yet [...]
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Because I Haven’t Updated in a While:
It’s been a while. Here’s some catching up: I tried a Blood tanking spec for a while. Was asked to go back to Frost before I could update my spec here. And I’m OK with that. While I really think I should be learning Blood tanking for Cataclysm, face it I like Frost tanking, and [...]
Cataclysm: Death Knight Preview.
So, for the few of you who haven’t yet seen the Cataclysm death knight preview, with some analysis by Zarhym and Ghostcrawler. go look now. I’l wait. Back? Good. I’ve slept on it, and thought about it, and I’ve come to the surprising conclusion that this is in fact a buff. “What?” you may ask. [...]
The New Icy Touch in Frost, or, Show Me On The Doll Where The Death Knight Icy Touched You
You may get the feeling, from the title, that I’m impressed with the change to Icy Touch. For those unfamiliar with the change, Icy Touch now does roughly seven times more threat while the DK is in Frost Presence. Combine this with the doubling of threat from Frost Presence itself, and Satorri at Tankspot estimates [...]
Let’s Talk Specs
With 3.3.3 coming out soon, there’s going to be a few changeups in specs. For Unholy DPS, I’m seeing 0/17/54 suggested for the new cookie-cutter spec. Looks like the Frost goodies scale better with gear than the Blood does, though Elitist Jerks is talking about a 10-100 dps difference, which I find trivial. Still, might [...]
Guest Post: Nashiira Talks Frost Tanking
I was discussing Frost Tanking with a fellow DK, Nashiira. and she emailed me with some advice she gave to some upcoming DKs regarding Frost Tanking. I liked it so much that, with her permission, I’m posting it here: First off, you are doing pretty well and appear to have a good grip on what [...]
Notfail tanking is… umm, yeah you get the idea.
Talking about how confidence makes all the difference – I tanked H HoS with guildies this morning. Being guildies, being early in the morning, and being wildly overgeared (my kit a little less so than the others, but 2T9 is still way over for most 5-mans) we ran it kinda sloppy and had a couple [...]
Fail tanking is fail.
Tried again to get on the tanking horse. Could not, for the unlife of me, keep aggro. I know I’m slow on the taunts and I need to rebind them to a more convenient key, but Arthas damn! I was reduced to Howling Blast, Obliterate, Dark Command, and Death Grip as my rotation. And even [...]
Five Things your PUG Death Knight wants you to know
Been seeing these on Twitter and around the WoW blogs, so I thought I’d throw my five copper pieces worth in. There is a lot of hate on Death Knights out there. And frankly, a lot of us deserve it. Some of that hate, however, is because a lot of you don’t really seem to [...]
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