Comments on: Quick Glance at Death Knight Tanking Talents

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:32:20 +0000

2 things. First, mind the post date. I was looking at the first published beta talent trees. Second, going by EJ 's current discussion, unholy is actually raid tanking viable, possibly even better than frost. Not sure a dogmatic stance at this stage is the right approach.

By: pingamaster

pingamaster — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:15:22 +0000

frost is tanking. Period. On a raid boss blood and unholy WILL NOT be able to hold up against it, it would be impossible.

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:53:39 +0000

Frankly, unless they go really through with the notion of allowing players to have two full talent specs they can swap around without cost, having a tank who needs to respec depending on what boss he’s going to tank is almost certain to kill that class.

If the talents remain more or less as is, I think you will have three different spec groups for the DK:
- Full tank with all core tanking talents specced in all three trees
- DPS / Offtank: a “major” taking the tanking talents in one tree, speccing that tree’s DPS talents all the way up to Tier 11, then minoring additional tanking or support talents in the other two trees
- Full out DPS, with different flavors per tree.

As is, the trees suggest a lot of different gameplay types. How much of these will be viable remain to be seen

By: Flaime

Flaime — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:59:47 +0000

If the Death Knight is supposed to be a “DPS” tank, it wouldn’t it make sense that there be some sort of tank enhancement talent in each tree? I would expect that Death Knights will probably be faced with tree decisions based on boss resistances, making their tanking specs rather more varied (and their tanking duties rather more expensive) than the other tank classes.