Comments on: So, You Wanna Play a Death Knight: Tanking

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:57:21 +0000

The idea behind bloodtap is it is awesome to chuck into a rotation to get another skill in for better threat build up. There is also a very useful thing called a glyph. Makes the skill no longer sap health.

By: BinaryMuse

BinaryMuse — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:57:02 +0000

The idea behind using Blood Tap was to build threat more quickly. Of course, now that we’re further into the expansion, we realize that threat is hardly an issue. Keep in mind this series was written almost half a year ago, when the expansion was fresh and things were quite new. You may (read: will) find that things work better for you a certain way–that’s fine. This series was not meant to be “THIS IS THE WAY YOU DO IT DO IT OR ELSE YOU FAIL,” it was designed as a basic introduction for new DKs.

By: n3x

n3x — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:35:47 +0000

I don’t understand why you would use blood tap to use Blood boil. You’re gimping yourself 6% health to use a blood rune which already is a blood rune.

By: Sartar

Sartar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:11:25 +0000

Nice Rotation i use something close to it, but i cant remember mine right now i will have to try this one out.

By: BinaryMuse

BinaryMuse — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:44:08 +0000

Death and Decay, along with spreading your diseases around, will get you pretty solid threat on a group of mobs. However, it’s important to be able to assess the situation and look at the pull. Is the group doing heavy AoE? Maybe you should focus on abilities like Blood Boil, Unholy Blight, Corpse Explosion, or Howling Blast instead of ones like Scourge Strike, Blood Strike, etc. In a good group, laying down some solid AoE–especially Death and Decay–at the start of a pull will give you decent aggro on the whole mess of mobs, while your groupmates focus on one primary target that you use your single-target abilities on.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:35:08 +0000

So after doing all they’d steps you will have threat on all mobs that you are dealing with?