Oct 9th: patch 3.3 will change unholy again, back to a spec with reaping, epidemic and a traditional deep unholy build. For Unholy in patch 3.3: read my full analysis.
The below is accurate for patch 3.22
If you’ve been reading Elitist Jerks unholy dps thread, you’ll know this, but many people can’t bear reading those threads so this will be important news. In either case, what I’m bringing is a tank build based on the changes in unholy.
What’s changed is that a few talents which used to be sacrosanct in all unholy builds are no longer:
- epidemic (longer diseases) and reaping (death runes) are not used
- for tanks, epidemic is optional, but reaping is definitely out
- the new rotation is only 10 seconds long.
I have found that a tank build based on this new model generates higher threat than the best I could get out of a traditional unholy build. The analysis of a no-epidemic build has been done by those clever chaps at EJ, and I do not take credit for it, I just offer my adaption for tanking. Probably, for tanks it’ll be no-reaping and deeps will also drop epidemic, but both will do this new short rotation.
Another factor is that in the current endgame, many DK tanks do not value AMS or AMZ. Personally I like to have them for flexibility in all situations, but if you drop them that gives another 4 points you can put into threat talents. The guys at EJ have mixed opinions on it but the weight tends toward dropping them for endgame tanking in return for more threat.
So what is the highest threat 3.22 unholy tank build?
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I’ve seen a few questions on this over time: what food should a tank eat for buffs?
The best tank food is Blackened Dragonfin, since it gives you avoidance. You’d take this unless you were relying on food to help on threat stats like hit or expertise.
Before diminishing returns, the dodge you get:
- warriors and DKs 0.47%
- paladins 0.66%
- druids 0.83%.
For threat, you have a few choices depending on your total stats. Here are the premium 40 stam foods you would raid with: » continue reading
WoL has a very good feature which lets you see when important buffs are up on. I was checking a log for a mate on dk.info who was dying repeatedly on XT in 25-man. I did some investigation in WoL.
I told him there wasn’t enough healing on the tank, probably too few assign on MT duty, some poor spell choices and not enough initial healing after the pull. I noticed not enough healing buffs on him too; Inspiration
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I used to have an addon called Possessions which is no longer maintained, and finally decided to look for a replacement. I want to be able to search, by name, for an item to see if I have it somewhere, guild bank, my bank, bags or alts.
Here’s what I found.
BankGUI
Even better than my old standard, BankGUI also know about my tradeskills, equipped glyphs, has a ‘to farm’ list you can write, and is nicely integrated to
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This morning I came across RaidBuffStatus. Update: I’ve since raid tested it and highly recommend this addon for raid leaders.
It provides intelligent raid buff checking prior to the pull, is talent-spec aware, has a real-time visual window of tank health/healer mana/dead healers/ missing buffs and (icing on the cake) has tank taunt warnings.
RaidBuffStatus also has an information video here, developed by a Finnish player (cool accent).
I like how seriously the author
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