Death Knight Tanking Guide
Tanking Rotations
Blood
Single Target
AoE
- DnD-IT-PS-Pest-BB-DS-DS-BB
Frost
Single Target
AoE
Unholy
Single Target
AoE
- DnD-PS-IT-Pest-BB-SS-SS-BB
Stats
- Stamina - Your going to prefer stamina over avoidance.
- Strength -
- Hit - You need 8% for your specials and 2h attacks to not miss
- Expertise - You need 26 expertise for your attacks to not be dodged. The parry cap is 56 expertise and not worth trying to reach.
- Defense - You want 540 defense to become uncritable against raid bosses.
- Dodge - You are going to prefer this over parry.
- Parry -
- Armor -
Glyphs
Major
Minor
- Pestilence - Required, it increases the radius by 5 yards.
- Raise Dead -
- Horn of Winter -
Talent Builds
Death Knights are the only class that can tank with any of the 3 talent trees. Though this doesn't mean all 3 are equal in performance.
Blood
Frost
Unholy
Gems, Enchants, Consumables
Gems
If the socket bonus is 12 stam+ then take it, if it's not then use a Solid Majestic Zircon.
- Meta - Austere Earthsiege Diamond
- Red - Guardian's Dreadstone or Regal Dreadstone
- Yellow - Vivid Eye of Zul
- Blue - Solid Majestic Zircon
Enchants
- Weapon
- 1h - Rune of the Nerubian Carapace
- 2h - Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle
- Head - Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector
- Shoulders - Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle
- Back - Mighty Armor, Titanweave
- Chest - Powerful Stats, Super Health
- Gloves - Armsman
- Wrists - Major Stamina
- Legs - Frosthide Leg Armor
- Feet - Greater Fortitude, Tuskarr's Vitality
Consumables
- Flask of Stoneblood
- Indestructible Potion - 3500 armor for 2 minutes. Use one just before the fight starts, and one after the first runs out so that you have 4 minutes with 3500 increased armor. The mitigated damage will be much better then using your 1 health pot.
Addons
Macros
Taunt Focus
#showtooltip Dark Command
/cast [target=focus] Dark Command
Runestrike
Replace Ability with whatever you want Obliterate, Blood strike etc
#showtooltip Ability
/cast Ability
/cast !Rune Strike
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()
Howling Blast+Deathchill
#showtooltip Howling Blast
/cast Deathchill
/cast Howling Blast