Tank buildFollow

A. I personally wouldn't use the Unbreakable Armor glyph. 25% of a DK's strength becomes parry rating as it is, so Unbreakable Armor increases your parry chance by more than 5% in its standard state. As your gear gets better, this goes up. You also get additional TpS this way. I also have a personal hatred of glyphs that give one bonus, but sacrifice another. I'd say UA in its standard form is 6-7% parry (does anyone know the converstion of parry rating to % at 80, and the current average for Str in tanking gear?).

B. Making abilities free is never something to frown upon. It just makes RP dumps better. Sure, there ARE other glyphs you can use. And, if they work better for you, use them. But these will be especially nice when you are in that 5-10 man without BoS.

C. I wouldn't scoff at making a taunt resist 8% less. I HATE resisted taunts with a fiery passion. Considering how DK threat generation goes, I would appreciate them not failing.


But, either way, I would never waste a spot on Improved Rune Tap as Frost tank. I rather not waste a glyph on an ability that takes a Blood Rune to generate no hate, when my party shouldn't be taking that much damage in the first place.

I am more of an Unholy tank at heart, which has much clearer glyph choices (in my opinion).

Glyph of DnD is always good for trash tanking. I don't know how it fares against bosses.

And I'll look at that build in the morning.

On a side note, relating to all the glyph discussion, this is what seems to be the glyphs to be used:

Glyph of Icebound Fortitude

Glyph of Death and Decay

Glyph of Dark Command

The only minor glyph to really do anything after the patch fixing Horn of Winter would be Glyph of Death's Embrace to heal yourself while using Lichborn/ghoul and Glyph of Pestilence to help AoE tank.


Edited, Jan 7th 2009 6:29pm by Lichbourne

Ack, was just browsing my guild roster and found three 80 DKs who raid that have Imp. Icy Talon.I am sure there are several other DKs who are leveling that will take this up as well.Should I scrap the Talons on my build, causing some other points to be placed in other talents to keep most of the tree unlocked, or keep it?

Edited, Jan 7th 2009 6:21pm by Lichbourne

Thanks for the tip, the EJ build posted seems to work fine. I might monkey with it for grins, se what I can come up with.
EDIT:Our main DK tank does have Icy Talons, so even more a reason to go with this build
EDIT:What should I do about Frost Aura in this build? It has been said that it isnt great compared to to other resistance buffs,as it will not stack. The problem is, Icy Talons held the points that allowed for the later arms of the tree to be unlocked w/o this and other DPS talents. it seem to be a nessicary waste of points.



Edited, Jan 8th 2009 3:42pm by Lichbourne

Problem is, KM is alredy in the build. I found that Icy Reach does the job as well as Frost Aura for the point dump, but is it the right dump? Aclimation would work great for this purpose, acctualy adding some extra stackable resistance, but it is to deep to work it seems.
EDIT: If I remember right, the tank DK doest have Frost Aura,might work as is then, the EJ build



Edited, Jan 8th 2009 6:46pm by Lichbourne

Anyone know yet what kind of stats we need to achieve before heroics and raiding? I'm at 545 defense, but I'm wondering more about health and AP/strength.

Thanks

I really hope this isn't true:\


All classses have been waiting for these weapons since they were announced. These would have been THE tanking weapon, easy to obtain, and more powerful than Nax/OS/Malygos items. Please Blizz, don't remove this uber wepon.

From what I hear,they are both on a 1G flashdrive in the Blizzard HQ, waiting for the choosen ones to arrive, as foretold by Saltsman in accounting
(Kudos to anyone who can say where I got that from,just send a message to my account)

Edited, Jan 11th 2009 5:36pm by Lichbourne