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Enjoying your tanking

Sure, Unholy’s fairly weak for tanking, but does it matter?

The usual argument I hear, a flawed one at that, is “you pay your $15, you choose your spec”. That is [ more...]

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...]

Unholy, not so bad?

Just wanted you to know, I checked Unholy vs Frost and Blood in Kahorie’s sim, and the TPS gap I’d seen in earlier simulations has been closed somewhat. This is [ 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...]

Warriors from the swiss army, DKs from lego

I like warrior tanks, they have so many abilities really they deserve to be called the swiss army knife of tanks. Warriors can intercept and charge, interrupt/silence many ways, cancel [ 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...]

Turbulent times for unholy DKs

Unholy has gone back and forth so much.

Recently, its threat sucked.
Then it was Unholy Obliterate spec for deeps
That got nerfed away.
Today it’s no-reaping Unholy with no-epidemic
and on 3.3 that’s being changed [ more...]

Unholy has changed: no reaping

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 [ more...]

Patch 3.22 site news

I’ve updated all key posts (including my main post) on the three DK tank talents for 3.2.2.

You can refer to my 3.22 index post to find them all.

In 3.22, glyphed [ more...]

PTR 3.22 unbreakable armour

Currently, PTR 3.22 unbreakable armour gives +25% armour and the glyph takes it to +30% (tooltip on glyph is a bit confusing).

If you compare that to bone shield at 15 [ more...]

Patch 3.22

This index post helps readers find my posts on the 3.22 changes for DK tanking. I had it stickied to front page for a while.

Death knight tank builds for unholy, frost [ 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...]

DK 3.22 talent changes

3.22 is now live, check my index post.

My tank builds and levelling specs have been updated.

These changes mean:

Unholy dps will go back to using Scourge Strike (instead of Unholy Obliterate, [ 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...]

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.