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Bone shield has 2s cooldown

A writer on EJ did enough tests to confirm the length of [Bone Shield] internal cooldown, for each charge to be used up: 2 seconds. It might be slightly lower [ more...]

Two blood tank extremes

Blood is so flexible. You can spec into survival, single or AOE threat. What’s the threat you gain from a heavy threat build compared to one for survival?

Survival

Here’s a really [ more...]

DK spec threat comparison

I have verified some of the threat comparisons using the latest version of Kahorie’s sim. It’s had a few tweaks so I wanted to see if that refinement had led [ more...]

Best tank spec in 3.3

For raids, I’d go with blood or frost.

Here are my posts with much more detail.

Patch
Blood
Frost
Unholy

3.3
blood 3.3
Frost 3.3 spec here or dual-wield
Unholy tanking 3.3

Feb 22, 2010 update: Unholy should not be [ more...]

Blood tank spec in 3.3

Blood remains the best single-target raid tank spec.

For blood, nothing changed in 3.3 from 3.22, so you don’t really need to respec. You might go into will of the [ more...]

Frost tank spec in 3.3

Frost tanking has always been and will remain in 3.3 a very solid choice. You can tank with either dual-wield or a two-handed weapon and both are viable. DW is [ more...]

What is the frost, unholy or blood rotation?

I get a lot of questions like “what’s the rotation for that spec?” Rotation is like Death Knight basics, and since I write on more advanced tanking questions, it’s not [ more...]

Unholy tank in 3.3

What is the best Death Knight Unholy tank spec in 3.3? I set out to simulate the various talent choices to find the highest threat unholy DK tank build. Below [ more...]

Dreadplate blood hybrid spec, no threat

A poster on dk.info was wondering about this hybrid spec, probably best called Dreadplate Blood, 21/41/5.

It takes a lot of Frost talents, but then goes into blood for some nice [ more...]

Where to point the last few blood tank talent points

Blood tanks have so many variations in spec. You can grab talents to emphasise raid buffs or single-target threat or AOE threat. There’s even Will of the Necropolis, which is [ more...]

Frost is for dual-wield tanking in 3.3

New patch notes.

Dual-wield frost tanking with a runeforge is coming. My guide is helpful here.

Also the change to IT Glyph is very interesting and will have consequences in frost and [ more...]

DK levelling in Unholy no-epidemic, plus a few addons

Found some great addons too, but first a snippet on levelling:

I ran the no-epidemic unholy dps specs in the simulator for L68, to see how it scales at low gear [ more...]

3.3 Death Knight dual-wield tanking

Dec 9th, correct for patch 3.3.

Can and should a DK dual-wield as a tank? Patch 3.22 made it possible, with rune strike now being effected by Threat of Thassarian. Patch 3.3 [ more...]

Unholy DK tank build PTR 3.22, simulation

For Unholy in patch 3.3: read my full analysis.

Sept 28: In 3.22 the below spec is no longer the highest threat unholy build, it’s now with no-epidemic.

October 1st: the [ more...]

Death Knight levelling specs

Verified for 3.22 plus commentary on no-epidemic unholy.

What are the specs and talent options for levelling up a Death Knight? Fortunately, they’re all good. Here are some templates to help [ more...]

Simulation on Unholy Death Knight tank TPS

(For Unholy in patch 3.3: read my full analysis.)

Updated to patch 3.22.

Sept 28: note that no-epidemic is now the highest threat tank build. This below post relates to traditional unholy spec.

October 1st: the [ more...]

Simulation on Frost Death Knight tank TPS

Nov 17th 09: Please see my 3.3 Frost DK tank post for latest answers.

There is a DK simulator which I’ve been using to test the various DK tank specs. But [ more...]

Blood tank in heroics, tested

Hi all,

I had a few readers tell me they had no troubles as Blood tank heroics, so I went and tested it more thoroughly.

Result is I’ve changed my view, and [ more...]

3.2 Death Knight blood tank specs

Verified for 3.22 and 3.3.

See my 3.3 Blood spec page.

There are so many possible and valid variations on a Blood maintank spec, I thought it’d be useful for me [ more...]

3.2 Death Knight tank specs

Overview of blood, unholy and frost recommended tank [ more...]