Blood TankFollow

I'm currently a Frost tank, and with the new changes coming out Blood looks like it can compete as a tanking spec(not saying they couldn't, but Frost and unholy were clearly better). I might try blood tanking for a bit and wonder if this would be a good idea.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=j0EMoIIIofMtuho0xZfg00z
As a quick question, would Dancing rune weapon doing the same attacks as you add to your threat? (that would be really cool).

I would also use Death Strike over Obliterate(With how easy it is to get threat Death strike will easy a bit off of my healers, obliterate isn't necessary.)

Corpse Explosion is my rune dump on AOE pulls, to help AOE threat otherwise it's RS and DC.

I also don't feel the Need for Lichbourne, I'm pretty sure I could do fine without (although i could be wrong, but if DRW doesn't add Threat than i might go for it) especially with the buff to Frost presence

An alternate build that I could go for
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=j0EMoIhIofMuuhZhxbzZfg00z
That includes Lichbourne, no DRW. I didn't max out Sudden doom, points could be moved into vendetta instead.


Just a thought about vendetta, considering it's a 6% heal whenever you kill a mob it should help a lot on trash AOE pulls and make things easier on the healers there, but on bosses that summon adds, that can be used as a nice health back mechanic. Just a reasoning behind it.

Edited, Dec 29th 2008 3:00am by Smithfoo

Edited, Dec 29th 2008 3:03am by Smithfoo

Edited, Dec 29th 2008 3:07am by Smithfoo

As someone who tanked as blood i would have to say that the upcoming changes look like they would make Blood Tank better, the changes to Vampiric Blood, and Heart Strike are nice for the tree. Blood would probably fare better against bosses (single mob, tank and spank) but unholy and frost would still do better AoE.

And to Smithfoo, the healing effects from a blood DK's attack would only come from his death strike spamming. Keep healing like normal. If anything u would use less mana healing a blood then a frost or unholy (if gear is same) because they can help heal. Also with Vampiric Blood, all healing effects and spells are increased by 50%, meaning your heals would be stronger, which in turns means less heals you have to cast to keep tank up.

I've mentioned it before in a thread on general but I find Blood tanks a lot like warriors do. Not so much aoe tanking. I think with the changes Blood might tie with warriors for most tps generated on a single target.

Frost has more feral-type aoe tanking feel, while Unholy is definitely a paladin tank-type.

The only thing really holding the class as a main raid tank now is just trying to hit uncrittable.