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03-31-2010, 12:23 PM
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Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly peek at the world of the death knight. This week, Matt Rossi (http://www.wow.com/bloggers/matthew-rossi/)fills in to talk about tanking on a blood death knight. This is not a 101 post, but an even more basic look.
I run heroics and 10 man raids on my death knight. There's simply only so much time in the day and I already raid pretty heavily on my warrior, so when I began seriously leveling a death knight I knew I would probably want to play something I felt very comfortable with. And so my flirtation with blood (http://www.wow.com/2009/11/02/lichborne-blood-blood/) was born. While frost has seen some love in the most recent patch, I'm still not much for the DW DK style, and I've never really like the pet management of unholy, so I currently have two blood specs on my DK, a DPS spec and a tanking spec.
What I've always loved about blood is its strong self-healing and physical damage based nature. As a blood tank, you end up taking advantage of these aspects of the tree, which provides strong single target threat, good AoE threat and solid cooldowns and survivability. While it doesn't have the snap AoE threat of a Howling Blast or unholy's strong group threat, Blood can still tank a group quite effectively with diseases and Heart Strike, while the recent patch 3.3.3 (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/23/world-of-warcraft-patch-3-3-3-release-patch-notes/) has greatly buffed single target threat for all DK tanks and made Will of the Necropolis (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=50150) far more attractive for the Blood DK tank.Continue reading Lichborne: Blood tanking basics (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/31/lichborne-blood-tanking-basics/)
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Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly peek at the world of the death knight. This week, Matt Rossi (http://www.wow.com/bloggers/matthew-rossi/)fills in to talk about tanking on a blood death knight. This is not a 101 post, but an even more basic look.
I run heroics and 10 man raids on my death knight. There's simply only so much time in the day and I already raid pretty heavily on my warrior, so when I began seriously leveling a death knight I knew I would probably want to play something I felt very comfortable with. And so my flirtation with blood (http://www.wow.com/2009/11/02/lichborne-blood-blood/) was born. While frost has seen some love in the most recent patch, I'm still not much for the DW DK style, and I've never really like the pet management of unholy, so I currently have two blood specs on my DK, a DPS spec and a tanking spec.
What I've always loved about blood is its strong self-healing and physical damage based nature. As a blood tank, you end up taking advantage of these aspects of the tree, which provides strong single target threat, good AoE threat and solid cooldowns and survivability. While it doesn't have the snap AoE threat of a Howling Blast or unholy's strong group threat, Blood can still tank a group quite effectively with diseases and Heart Strike, while the recent patch 3.3.3 (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/23/world-of-warcraft-patch-3-3-3-release-patch-notes/) has greatly buffed single target threat for all DK tanks and made Will of the Necropolis (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=50150) far more attractive for the Blood DK tank.Continue reading Lichborne: Blood tanking basics (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/31/lichborne-blood-tanking-basics/)
Filed under: Death Knight (http://www.wow.com/category/death-knight/), (Death Knight) Lichborne (http://www.wow.com/category/death-knight-lichborne/)
Lichborne: Blood tanking basics (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/31/lichborne-blood-tanking-basics/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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