How good survivalbility does the DK actually have?

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Blood DK > Druid and Pala for solo stuff.

You can heal 78% of your HP every 30 seconds + 4% of your damage as healing. Also, do not use mana.

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kara, ZG, ony 40, reg VH, etc etc etc

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I don't know how long you have been playing a DK, or maybe not yet, but compared to other classes in general (disregarding spec and gear at this point), We have amazing survivability. This is due to a number of factors:

-Plate
-Various presences, which we can switch to adapt to specific situtuations.
-The abilty to heal
-A resource system without almost any downtime, that is essentially infinite, but unlike rage and energy that are also "infinite", we can HEAL.
-Some great cooldowns.

Essentially, you can stay alive for infinite amounts of time, as long as you can match or surpass the incoming damage by counter balancing it with Death Strike.

I leveled dps Blood. I was able to solo every single group quest, yes, including 5 mans.
I was able to solo fel reaver at 74. The reason we are better is because once the healer runs out of mana, the warrior and rogue are low on health, they are screwed. We however can pull off nearly constant healing, and we are covered with plate meaning that we don't have to heal as much as a clothie attempting to solo something.

In PvP, we have grear coolowns like AM shield, IF, and others depending on spec. Not to mention deathgrip.

My DK is fully epicd Blood Tank spec, with 4/5 conqs and 1/5 t9. I can EASILY solo any Pre BC raid, any BC instance or Heroic too. Plus there are options avaible when speccing that seem almost deisgned for soloing survivbility. I have gotten Cairne to 56%. I can solo HHM, and I'm sure that I can prolly solo some BC raids like Kara, Mannoroth, Kazzak, and some WotLK heroics bosses. Haven't tried those yet.

So to answer your question were are without question one of the best in terms of survivabilty. Depending on gear and spec, we are as good as, if not better than tank druids, and prot paladins.

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Forgot to mention that in addition, as blood, you have Vampiric Blood, which increasing any healing on yourself by 30% and gives 15% extra health. This is especially useful for DK tanks, who tend to have 35k unbuffed hp.

This because your 3 healing abilities, Death Strike, Rune Tap/Imp Rune Tap and Death Pact, determine healing done by a Percentage, not a set amount meaning the higher your Hp, the more you get healed, and the more benefit you gain from both aspects of Vamp Blood when its active.

For Example, I have 36.7k unbuffed, no flask. ( I know thats low, workin on it.) Without VB, i pull of 8k Rune Taps, 16k ish Death Pacts and around 5.3k Runestrikes.

With VB, Rune taps are 11k, D Pacts are 22k, and i frequently use those back to back meaning i have a 4 min cooldown 33k lay on hands availbilty. Know any other class that can do that? Didn't think so. This is in addition to the 5-8k D Strikes you get. So blood is by far the soloing spec.

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I just started testing my own survivability (and blogging about it) as a blood spec'd DK. So far I have soloed Zul'Gurub, Heroic Underbog and few others. Really just started and I don't have much time to spend on it and it took me a little time to get used to the blood rotation and alter the spec a little. Once I became familiar with the rotation, abiliites and the instances themselves they are very easy. I have very not so good tanking gear but I am slowly building that up and hoping to get to the point i can solo lvl 80 heroics.

I also soloed the Headless Horseman just to see if I could do it.

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i just soloed anub in H AN.
cake.

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i just soloed anub in H AN.
cake.

Fraps or it didn't happen.

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How good survivalbility does the DK actually have?

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