Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1 Best in Slot Gear - Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Got to love how guides always tell you to stack nothing but X gem, which in this instance is the stam gem. Admittedly, its quite easy to swap one gem out for the red socket bonus. But if you stam gem stack like this guide says, you'll have an inactive meta. Stam stacking like this may give you an insane health pool, but it doesn't do what socketing was intended to do in adding stats for the missing ratings that you need to be effective. Make sure you think about the socket bonus as a whole when it comes to what you might gem and remember you need one red socket gem in order to enable your meta.

评论来自 Ziqz

This gearing is wrong. The creater of this guide did not even account for Hit raiting cap. It's currently sitting at 150 hit raiting, and you need 263 to be capped.
But also, the creater did not know that taunts can miss if not spell hit capped. The spell hit cap is 17% and with Dark Command Glyph it's at 9% spell hit required to never miss a taunt.
With this gear the spell hit is at 5.72%.

Conclusion: You can and will miss Taunts, IT, Plague Strike, Pestilence, Blood Strike, Death Strike on raid bosses. All core abilities of a BDK.

评论来自 Henceforth

Edit: if you are reading this now, after several bad ratings on this guide the guide owner actually updated the build removing that dual buff build for a Blood tank.
Therefore, I was right, in spite of all the downvotes here from the blight club cringe brigade.
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Hi. I'm a Death Knight player from day 1 in WoTLK expansion. Played through the very first patch where it was chaos and you could tank anything with any spec in the first tier to having to go Blood or Frost (depending on the fight) in Ulduar.

Upon reviewing the recommended build, it goes back to the early conversations shared in the Blight Club discord, where people insisted that it would fall to the Blood DK to actually carry 2 buffs to the raid that other 2 classes already can do. No discussion about Abomination's Might, it is core to Blood DKs, but Improved Icy Talons, really?

You will have a frost DK in your 25 man raid, which will bring IIT.
If you don't have a frost DK in your 25 man raid, you will have an Enhancement Shaman.
To an Enhancement Shaman it costs 2 talents to pick what it costs 5 vital talents for a Main Tank Blood DK to pick up. The DPS loss for a enhancement shaman to pick up Improved Windfury is negligible compared to lose 5% avoidance AFTER diminish returns for a MAIN TANK
Giving up 5% dodge AFTER diminish returns (this dodge CANNOT be diminished) to pick up Improved Icy Talons can only be justified in a 10 man very scuffed raid. Or if you are offtank and your raid would rather have you go this scuffed build rather than go frost dps.

Going back to 2009 we didn't need that much to be successful in 10 man raids, either doing Tier 7 achievements or Tier 8 Hard Modes. Going beyond that, they were even easier with gear.

So, in another words, the suggested talent build here can only exist in a world where you have the worst possible raid comp EVER, or you're raiding with the WORST raid leader ever that will make you LOSE actual useful talent points that really help ensure the raid success to appease an enhancement shaman that is stubborn to not pick up 2 talents for improved windfury.

So this build is already bad for Tier 7, especially with Dual Wield and the really low hit rating. Being the BiS for the current tier means it is the to-go for next tier start.

If anything, from Tier 8 progress through hard modes, the build should be the very same we used at the end of the expansion: 43/23/5 with the highest possible avoidance obtained through talents with Frigid Breastplate + Anticipation, while retaining the most valuable cooldown Vampiric Blood and our valuable Will of the Necropolis.

评论来自 Iiana

The bis gear bad for frost dual wield. You want 2 slow weapons because your attacks scale off weapon damage and you get a massive 40% haste from icy talons and improved icy talons. So taking 2x last laugh is massively worse than taking 2x broken promise from 4 horsemen. Also the sigil makes no sense, because of the glyph of pestilence you ideally wont be using icy touch at all after the opener. So something like the sigil of awareness of heigan that increases base damage of obliterate and death strike is far far more useful

评论来自 monkiy

Pretty disingenuous to remove critical comments pointing out how wrong this guide is. I'm happy to post the points again so that others are not misled by this nonsense.

DW tanking is a bad idea, and even worse as Blood due to a lack of synergy. There is zero reason to list it for a supposedly BiS list.
Only 4.57% Hit is really bad.
Sigil of the Frozen Conscience is extremely bad, and the given reason of "freeing up rune slots," doesn't make any sense.
While the PvP weapons and the trash drop for the 2H slot are good, the guide somehow managed not to list a single 2H Str weapon from actual boss drops in Naxx 10/25, but did list an Agility 2H, which is just baffling. The Jawbone and Armageddon from Naxx 25, and Demise and Death's Bite from Naxx 10, should not be discounted as viable options. And certainly as better options than an Agility weapon.

The talents are a whole mess of their own, but the highlights are:

0/3 Virulence is bad.
There's very little benefit to running 3/3 Death Rune Mastery as a tank outside of trash, and even that isn't necessary.
Spell Deflection is also less beneficial than it might seem, and generally best not taken. Too RNG to be reliable, not a big enough pay off.
The points in Improved Icy Touch, and Icy Talons are completely wasted in a raid environment.
Going that deep into the Frost tree just to seemingly get to an additional 3% chance for the boss to miss is not worth it.

评论来自 Joefatawesome

Kyzoc's Ground Stompers cost shown 20 more than it is on classic wotlk.

评论来自 Clefairy

Overall, the pieces of gear listed are not wrong. They're all good ideas for tanking on a DK, but the power ranking is scuffed in terms of which one is BiS over the others. For the most part, if you get one of the items in any slot category, you're fine.

Moving onto the talents, DRM is highly optional, even as a solo Blood tank on trash, which itself is unlikely in phase 1 given that the content can be handled by Frost tank specs. Virulence is also very undervalued in this guide. Hit and expertise are slightly undervalued in this guide. The mechanics that DKs have to deal with, specifically around landing diseases, landing pestilence, landing Death Strike, etc all has a major impact on maintaining a rotation. Often overlooked is that missing Blood rune skills means your blood runes aren't spent. This means that Blade Barrier isn't activated. Combine this with the way that DKs stagger their Blood runes around Blade Barrier uptime, and poor hit/expertise values can bork your Blade Barrier uptime. So in specifically the shoulder and pants slots, the expertise shoulders > tier and the tier pants > maly pants. The slight mitigation gain from shedding hit and expertise is not worth it.

Finally, you're using the wrong terminology for def cap. Crit cap has nothing to do with defense rating. Crit cap is a term from vanilla referring to melee who have more crit than they can use. This was a result of having no stats to reduce boss dodge/parry to a significant degree combined with world buffs giving these classes a ton of crit. Based on the hit table, many melee classes would have more crit chance that they could use, and so they would reoptimize their gear around their crit cap. The proper term for crit immunity is def cap. Def cap, like hit cap, refers to the soft cap on the stat.

评论来自 Syous

Putting Solid Sky Sapphire on Helm of Vital Protection is stupid when you can put a green gem such as Enduring Forest Emerald and get the exact same stamina, plus the defense

评论来自 Clefairy

There's clearly a case of sycophants from the author's discord. It's unfortunate because I would assume that this author is doing their best, but they are ever so slightly off here and there, or applying an extremely myopic view of the class. While some of the comment criticisms in here are outlandish, other "ratio'd" comments present valid criticisms worthy of discussion and even of author attention. This guide seems to be a standout for the sheer amount of hidden comments via downvotes, not just from WotLK content guides, but on this site as a whole. Either WoWhead's moderation team needs to clean this up, or the author themselves needs to address their zealots.

评论来自 HecksAU

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评论来自 PregnantOrc

I'd add Repelling Charge from 10 man Thaddius to the optional list for trinkets. It's pretty much the Seal of the Pantheon but with more Defense and a Health use in place or Armor use.

As I don't have either JC or Engineering I've paired my Essence of Gossamer with a Commendation of Kael'thas from Magister's Terrace for some plain old 57 Stamina and 152 dodge if dipping bellow 35% health. I don't know if it holds up mathematically but just based on how it's worked so far I think it holds up to the honestly low quality non profession tank trinkets that are available so far and might also be a candidate for non crafted optionals as the Stamina works against all types of damage unlike Dodge etc.

评论来自 Tende

I have bis gear for both DW tanking and 2hand tanking. All trinkets (also Darkmoon STR etc.) DW tanking is NOT good. Go 2hand tanking, you will have insane Rune Strikes and never loose aggro. Also t7 is a joke. So gem def/str/hit gems to hit socket bonuses and you will be set. Top tank dps. Critt immune then Hit/Exp cap is what you should aim for this tier. After that just go Str, Str, Str. is to good to pass up though.

Blood Death Knight Tank Phase 1 Best in Slot Gear - Wrath of the Lich King Classic

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