Upgrades for tanking you might not have considered

Wintergrasp.

If you’re a tank on i232 or worse gear, you might have some options not considered before, using PvP gear for stamina. If you’ve run out of Frost Emblems for [ more...]

Tier-gear or not, for strict 10-man tanks

Choosing how to spend your Emblems of Frost is also a decision on whether you get the 4-piece set bonus, which is particularly complicated if you’re a strict 10-man tank.

For [ more...]

PvP weapons for tanking

The new season PvP weapons are awesome. If you can get into an arena team for points and enough rating, man the rewards are sweet.

If you’re only a 10-man raider [ more...]

Tanking weapons in 3.3

I thought it might be useful to review the tank weapon choices for Death Knights, and provide a rank order.

Officers distributing loot could consider this a priority table: I would suggest [ more...]

Weapon speed effect on dual-wield tanking

Dual-wield frost tanking threat is effected by the weapon speed.

My weapons. I have two: Black Icicle, and I also have two Rimefang’s Claw. They’re not hard to get, just takes [ more...]

New tank gear in 3.3

List of new 3.3 BoP plate tank gear from 5-mans and emblem of frost rewards, by slot. You earn Frost emblems from raiding, or from the daily/weekly quests.

For gear from [ more...]

The new EH: beyond physical damage

I’d hope you’ve seen this thread on maintankadin, it’s been fairly regularly mentioned around the blogosphere and twitter.

Theck has worked out a new formula for effective health which accounts for [ more...]

Rawr.TankDK: guest post from the lead developer

I’m really delighted to have this guest post! Enjoy. – Gravity

Rawr.TankDK

Hello, I’m Shazear the current contributing developer for the Tank DK module in Rawr. For those who don’t know, Rawr is a [ more...]

Loot, progress and other good reads

A few really top-notch articles over the last few days, and one I just published on dk.info from a new contributor there.

I’m an admin and moderator at deathknight.info, and have [ more...]

List of raid gear without raiding

Plate tank gear you can get from emblems, BoEs from the AH or professions. Useful to plan gearing up a new or alt tank without having to actually raid. Helps [ more...]

Avoidance value of expertise

In late August, Theckhd of Maintankadin started an epic post to work out, if expertise was an avoidance stat, how good would it be? The exact ratios below apply to [ more...]

Threat stats equivalence points for Death Knight tanks

Dec 18th: updated for 3.3, using latest calculations from the simulator, and adjusted for ICC avoidance aura. Jan 4th: dual-wield frost updated.

DPS Death Knights are really into Equivalance Points (“EP”) [ more...]

Death Knight tanking weapons

If you’re handling loot, you should know what kinds of weapons a DK tank will want. If you’re giving loot priority to tanks this should also mean DK tanks get [ more...]

What gear is required for a raid

The reactions to Gevlon’s feat of clearing Ulduar-10 in blues show that many players have fallen into the trap of thinking gear is the only solution to clearing raids. Gevlon [ more...]

Ulduar cleared in blues, not epics

Wow. Thanks to RJK for highlighting this post on a site I rarely visit, Greedy Goblin. Great for money-making tips, but… raiding?

In short: the goblin’s guild cleared 10-man Ulduar, wearing only blues [ more...]

Warrior 3.2 tank spec, and no more badge gear

Warrior tank specs

I presume any tank reader on my site knows Veneretio well, he’s posted the warrior tanks specs he’s running.

No more badge gear tank upgrades

Last night, I got my [ more...]

Tank simulation tools

Probably warriors know about this tanking spreadsheet at EJ. However as a DK tank, and a former maintankadin, I didn’t. I looked over it, thinking… hmmm I’m a geek maybe [ more...]