Comments on: Bone shield has 2s cooldown

By: ArchxGabriel

ArchxGabriel — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:42:35 +0000

Blood is best for healing back what they take, frost for reducing dmg…and unholy is the best at tanking magic oriented bosses…with anit magic sheild and anti magic zone dropped properly an unholy dk can end up taking almost no damage in these types of fights…they also have the best aoe aggro holding ability…making them good for OT in many fights with adds…i will agree that in most fights unholy isn’t very good as a main tank unless the dmg dealt is mostly or all magical based…

By: Caim

Caim — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:17:26 +0000

I have tanked unholy for almost a year now. I keep ghoul up all the time which I have yet to see one tank spec which does. Two reasons Death Pact for when healer lags and with ghoul frenzy if healer gets aggro from somewhere send him in to pull aggro off then put on passive to bring it back to you. I really have no problem holding aggro if you use all your aggro abilities as needed and keep blood runes on cooldown.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:32:30 +0000

We checked on dk.info; gargoyle does not give threat. Only DRW.

By: Kaletri

Kaletri — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:58:25 +0000

Since it was recently discovered that Dancing Rune Weapon gives threat to the DK, I wonder if the same is true for Gargoyle? If so, it might be worth taking for an Unholy tank build after all.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:36:08 +0000

So far, I am again reminded of why I love Unholy. In 5-mans, it's just such easy threat, and I love bone shield. I wish it was more viable in ICC. Corpse Explosion is a particularly great talent, because you can use it to agro AOE when everything else is on cooldown, or when a new add runs into the pack.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:13:55 +0000

This week I'm going to be trying an Unholy build in 5-mans (not raids), and will be using a Blood spec for Icecrown.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:16:41 +0000

There was misinformation and varying reports. I hadn’t seen a conclusive test for a while.

By: Shayzani

Shayzani — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:06:58 +0000

I’ve been under the impression that the internal cooldown on Bone Shield charges being 2 seconds has been a known issue since the launch of this expansion. Has that not been the case?
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By: Gravity

Gravity — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:04:37 +0000

An OT in PvP gear for example, or dps spec with tank gear, but in Unholy spec, sounds pretty nice. Bone Shield would therefore reduce Delirious but not the Blood Mirror, eh.

Thanks for the WoL too.

By: Bluedragon

Bluedragon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:56:42 +0000

For Blood Queen, Delirious Slash does not ever stack.

Here’s a log of our last 25man kill (I am the OT):
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/tgowlsmgc49uemu7/details/2/?s=19728&e=20053#tab-auras
Click on the # sign next to the debuff Delirious Slash, and you’ll see a layout of exactly when and how long it was applied for, and never once does it overlap.

Bone Shield however does reduce Delirious Slash damage, and doesn’t eat charges for it. Which is nice in this fight because I always OT it as a DPS spec in tank gear, except DPS trinkets&sigil. While I was Blood in the log, for 10% AP, UH is usually the spec of choice for DPS.