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Death Knight Cataclysm (85) Tanking Guide
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Couple of points:
Might need to check if Heroic Presence is still group/raid-wide or self-only. I know for a fact it's going to be self-only come Cata, but this thread is 4.0.1-specific, so it may not be self-only yet.
The proc on Shadowmourne is, for lack of a better word, awful for a tank. I've had mine (UH DPS) for about 5 months now: the damage on the proc is laughable (around 3k WITH the 30% buff and all raid buffs, and that damage gets divided by the number of targets it hits, so 3k single-target, 1.5-ish on 2, etc.). I highly doubt the 270 Str on the proc is valued that highly for the low Str-to-Parry conversion, even more so since the proc takes about 10-11 seconds to build with my personal 30% Haste. Tanks likely will build it a second or so slower.
I believe the ICC Dodge Debuff is gone with 4.0.1, so you may consider a return to gemming Dodge hybrid gems over Parry ones.
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Excellence. Thanks a bunch. Will be putting this to use once the realms go up.
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Well Dodge is yellow now so for Red Sockets parry is the only thing left, apart from Expertise.
Eww.
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DarkOpeth
Well done, this sums up all the changes and suggests reasonable ways to go about embracing all the new stuff. Recommended for a sticky.
Once mastery, and switching out avoidance stats get math behind it to support which changes are better than others, update this please, because so far, I am going pretty much solely off this guide.. (I am sure others are too.)
Thanks for the time you put into this. +1
I was wondering if you could maybe expand the Abilities/Priorities section. (you stated that as tanks, we no longer have a fixed rotation), but could you maybe, possibly, hopefully, put a general rotation on there?
Also, has runestrike changed in use? I know it was altered in damage, but is it still on next melee, or is it used when clicked... because the tooltip says "instant". Thanks .
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Reported for sticky, also removed my blood write up in the cata guide and placed a link for your guide there.
It hasn't been implemented yet on Live servers. The RS and Imp blood pres change is only on beta servers currently.
As for a set rotation...the only part of your rotation that will be set is the first rune/rp dump. Once you start RSing you'll start proccing Runic Empowerment which will randomly choose a rune to recharge. This will force us into a random priority system and you won't be able to follow a set rotation.
As far as stats go...in our currently WotLK gear you'll have a mass amount of avoidance that can be transferred to mastery. Most of your Def got changed to parry or dodge, when the patch went Live so you can easily reforge some of that off into mastery. Once you start leveling when cata releases the numbers may change as our avoidance will drop as we level. However, for the time being i'd stick with what's posted in the guide.
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