Unholy tank spec

Ossome · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: Unholy tank spec

Last weekend i got a set of tank gear for my death knight, it seems kind of fun, so when i hit 80 i'm going to be reworking my spec more toward tanking.

I'm thinking about trying an unholy/blood spec.
Do any dks that are experienced with tanking have any opinions or suggestions about the spec?
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Ossome · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: Spec edit 1

Dropped spell deflection (3pts), and magic supression (5pts).
Picked up unholy command (2pts), and reaping (3pts) for the increased uptime on Blade barrier but people can't seem to agree on wether or not the blood runes that have been converted to death runes still count as a blood rune for the effect of the talent. Have any of you tried this out? **EDIT** read some more, apparently it goes by the cooldow
Also switched toughness (3pts), for improved icy touch (3pts) since the reduced attack speed sounds like it would be more useful overall.

21/3/47 Unholy

**EDIT** read some more, apparently blade barrier goes by the cooldown of the rune slots regardless of what the actual rune in them at the time is.
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vilgax · Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 15 Location: your head ^_^

have you talked to mindfreek/necrophiliac/nigthcurse/milionsofalts aka dean? he was a DK mt for a while and i believe he works an unholy tank spec if you interested in talkin to him. he was pretty good at it too from what i remember.

Ossome · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject:

No, i haven't actually, when i posted this i didn't know he was playing a DK tank, the spec i have seems to be working fine mostly, i might look into changing it around a bit for single target threat though, cause i was having some problems keeping agro off krazyblade the other night in vault.
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vilgax · Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 15 Location: your head ^_^

ah ok, yea Dean was IO's DK main tank and DK offtank depending on group comp and who felt like tanking. But glad to hear its workin out for ya ^_^

Samzon · Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 6

I use a mixture of all 3 but i always go deep enough frost to get howling blast, once you try it, its hard to not have it for tanking. It rules. 23/32/16 is what i use, it gives me both blood and unholy stam buffs and i still get howling blast in frost tree.