Comments on: First DK Tanking Experience

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:34:39 +0000

That’s very harsh, Fish. I remember the same being said about anything but warriors when TBC got released, and about tankadins until roughly 2.2. From a first glance, I think it’s rather going to be quite complicated to tank well as a DK. One of the areas where they could potentially shine compared to all the others is that they’ll never be in a situation where they cannot generate enough of their primary resource (rage or mana) to keep aggro, contrary to the three other tanks. They’ll certainly make better offtanks than pallies for instance (at least pre 3.0.2 tankadins, still need to try out the new prot)

By: Fish

Fish — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:54:50 +0000

Yeah, I was a little ticked off when I saw that the cobalt stuff was mostly superior to my 100g apiece felsteel set (I’m not a blacksmith so didn’t get the strength bonus from the set).

I have some to the conclusion, DK’s are poor tanks no matter what. What sets a tank apart is mitigation, not just wearing plate, having high health and the ability to taunt things. I just don’t see DK’s ever having enough of it to compare to pallys, warriors, or Druids.

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:10:47 +0000

Yeah, I had the gloves on that run, it’s definitely good kit to have to tank. Not really sure I want to invest that money on two tanking toons at this stage though. The mechanisms were certainly interesting to try out, that being said, my current quandary is picking between a toon which I’m very comfy tanking with and still has more than enough defense for the next couple of leveling dungeons, or one which has no gear to speak of and feels, at present, a lot more difficult to handle.

I also think most of the difficulties came more from the lack of practice and ill-timed AoE spells on cooldown at the wrong moment than gear issues proper. We certainly never wiped from the healers going OoM, it was more about handling adds (and ice trap) properly where I had issues.

Choices, choices…

By: Cait

Cait — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:43:42 +0000

Quick correction, the cobalt set is a green craftable (also spelled Cobalt, not Cobolt)

Boots: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39088#comments

Wowhead has the entire set there to check out.

By: Cait

Cait — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:32:30 +0000

Well I’m glad to see you tried out DK tanking. The one set that will net you about 140g for 6+ pieces is the Cobolt set. Crafted blue plate armor with defense on it. At lvl 74 the boy had I think 16k health and more than 470 defense. I’m not exact on this but it was great to see him tanking as unholy and really enjoying it. Maybe check your AH for these pieces or find a BS to make ‘em! DK tanking can really be enjoyable with the right gear. Don’t give up!

By: Adventsparky

Adventsparky — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:22:26 +0000

I guess you don’t need me to come back then

And here I was preparing for my triumphant return