1. July 5, 2019  
    since you're coming from a prot pala, you'll notice that dk has less passive mitigation so make a habit of keeping a track of what's going on like darkenedhue said. track inspiration from discs / ancestral fortitude from shamans, sacred shields, beacons, demo shout. i would suggest tracking boss dmg through a combat text addon so you can death strike immediately after the hit. you generally want to talk to a warrior about keeping up demo shout because this debuff is like having several thousands of extra armor.

    for troubleshooting low threat - it sounds like you aren't queueing rune strike enough. you should have no problem with threat with some help from hunters and/or rogues as a dk, even without spamming icy touch with all your runes. dks have a lot of atk power and rune strike is buffed from 9% extra physical dmg and 5% extra melee haste from talents. if you've ever played a warrior, this is like spamming heroic strike. i have rune strike binded to scroll down on mouse so that i can always utilize it whenever it's up. this will do so much threat alone with a weapon like yours that it's not even funny. not to mention that you get free avoidance from it too. a lot of people like to macro rune strike into all of their abilities, but i don't personally suggest doing this because in the very small chance you end up runic power starved, you won't have enough runic power to use a defensive cooldown. change talents a bit and go 2/5 in Black Ice or 2/2 in Icy Reach (underrated talent - helps in reaching inferno in rs hc if they spawn too far, ragings, adds on lady, etc) and max out Killing Machine.

    minor nitpicking but go use the armor enchant on cloak instead of engi parachute.
    If spaming IT there is no problem with threat , but when lets say i wait for breath or some kind of reaper or etc is like i stop dps for little bit and waiting to use Strike which is not correct maybe . Yes i macro Rune Strike to my ability , was asking few dk bis tanks in the guild and they told me they macro it so i do it , may i have to remove it and use it normaly , dont seems to hard for me . And yes may i should change inc dmg , i currently use blizard one but i have milk scrolling battle text , never use it may i should give a try .

  2. July 5, 2019  
    What's the dungeon hero spec talents? the link doesn't work

  3. July 5, 2019  
    If spaming IT there is no problem with threat , but when lets say i wait for breath or some kind of reaper or etc is like i stop dps for little bit and waiting to use Strike which is not correct maybe .
    Yep, this is the correct way to use Death Strike - save your frost and unholy rune pairs (or death runes in desperate need), pestilence to keep dots running, heart strike when that first blood rune you used is just about to come off cooldown to keep Blade Barrier activated and always keep a blood rune in reserve to use Vampiric Blood or Rune Tap. Predict incoming damage and heal right after. Vampiric Blood + Death Strike and/or Rune Tap is insanely good to keep you return your health back to stability. Do not ever stop auto-attacking boss, though, as you'll lose considerable threat from not using rune strikes. DK can go into high hps and a lower tps mode when the situation calls for self heals and then go back to keeping up aggro.

    Yes i macro Rune Strike to my ability , was asking few dk bis tanks in the guild and they told me they macro it so i do it , may i have to remove it and use it normaly , dont seems to hard for me .
    Yeah, it's good to know that you are actually using the ability and also not runic power starve yourself; this rarely ever happens but if it does, you won't be able to use AMS or IBF when needed.

    And yes may i should change inc dmg , i currently use blizard one but i have milk scrolling battle text , never use it may i should give a try .
    Mik's is really good and I use it to see incoming boss melee/spell hits. You can modify it to show less information if there's too many floating numbers on your screen. It also shows a big notification when rune strike is ready to use.

  4. Hello, I have a question , I am dk tanke 6.1 Tauren my doubt is if the Tauren get more punches than other races ?

  5. Hello, I have a question , I am dk tanke 6.1 Tauren my doubt is if the Tauren get more punches than other races ?
    You mean Tauren racial 5% health from base health? That is some 480 additional health. So you can take one more reaaaaly small punch, maybe useful when you fight pigs in Durotar.

  6. Just thought I'd let you know the talent links are not working...

  7. Yo, anybody with bis blood tank gear in rawr file? thx
    Or at least wanna know in terms of your bis gear, what is end game numbers (without buffs): HP pool, armor, spell hit.

  8. Hello,
    Why pillars of might or onyxia ring aren't in gear list? they has more EHP than marrow legs or ashen ring?

    About hit rating lost may be it's possible to move two points from anticipation to virulence?
    What are you thoughts about that?

  9. Gnimo's list isn't exactly the most effective health list. It focuses on getting melee hit capped and dodge capped on expertise so he can rely on death strike more and have higher threat. EHP bis looks more like: 4 set, pillars offset, armor neck, eof cloak, dbs10hc bracers, eof belt, rs25hc boots, devium's, ony25/toc10hc ring, sindy trinket, trinket 2 upon preference (organ, togc25, skele key, scale) and cryptmaker as weapon to get a big chunk of hit and get full armor offpieces. In this setup you'll gem full 30 stamina everywhere and only match 1 hybrid in the helmet to meet the meta req. You'll have like 170 hit rating and 6 exp from talents with this setup.


  10. Hi all, great guide and enjoyed reading it.

    Lots of good information but I have a question about the below specs

    Dungeon Hero:
    maximum amount of dmg:
    https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#jbE...tGct00x:oqL0Mc
    more control:
    https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#j0E...Iz0bxbu:oqhcMV
    in case you find urself missing a lot of spells:
    https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#jbE...rcx00xb:oqdVM0

    Apologies if this is a noob question but what presence should I be in for these specs?

    I am assuming frost presence for the stamina and threat but I can see why I might want the extra damage from Blood presence.

    Thanks.

  11. Hi all, great guide and enjoyed reading it.

    Lots of good information but I have a question about the below specs

    Dungeon Hero:
    maximum amount of dmg:
    https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#jbE...tGct00x:oqL0Mc
    more control:
    https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#j0E...Iz0bxbu:oqhcMV
    in case you find urself missing a lot of spells:
    https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#jbE...rcx00xb:oqdVM0

    Apologies if this is a noob question but what presence should I be in for these specs?

    I am assuming frost presence for the stamina and threat but I can see why I might want the extra damage from Blood presence.

    Thanks.
    Hi,
    any kind of half-serious tanking = Frost Presence. Blood presence maybe when you are heavily overgeared in RDF (you can solo instance) and rest of your party is not (you are sure you can hold aggro) and you want to go faster. (even then swap to some dps gear first)

  12. Hey, thanks for the answer. Always good to get the people who know what they are doing to show me the way :D

  13. Hey Gnimo, love your guides, I learned a ton while learning you PvE DK stuff.

    I'm trying to build a second spec for heroic dungeons on the new Frostmourne server. I'm currently not fully geared and have not yet hit my defense cap. Anyhow, would frost or blood be preferable for dungeons? I've tried both, and I haven't seen a big difference in damage taken.

  14. May 20, 2020  
    Links seem to be dead.... I wanted to check out the AoE & Self healing build :/

    any chance of fixing?

    Blood Spec:

    Spoiler: Show
    Go for Stamina (and Armor) as ur main Stat.

    Double raid buff: http://talentcalc.deffender.eu/death...00000000000000
    More Avoidance: http://talentcalc.deffender.eu/death...00000000000000
    A bit more AoE and Self Healing:
    http://talentcalc.deffender.eu/death...00000000000000

    Glyphs:

    Mayor:
    Glyph of Disease
    Glyph of Dark Command
    Glyph of Vampiric Blood

    Minor:
    Glyph of Horn of Winter
    Glyph of Raise Dead
    Glyph of Pestilence


    U can also use:
    Glyph of Rune Tap
    or
    Glyph of Death and Decay
    Instead of Dark Command, if u think u wont miss Taunt that often.

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