First you must understand the class deisgn. Summed up, the Death Knight tank will take more damage than the other tanking classes, but will make up for this in large amounts of healing.
Because of this, Mastery is your highest priority stat, followed by avoidance, and then stamina.
Your most valuable ability is Death Strike. For raid bosses, you should use DS as optimally as possible. That means make sure you are never just doing the minimum heal/shield. Make sure you've taken decent damage prior to Death Striking, and make sure that you don't use it at 99% health. Make the heal count as well, or you're only use 50% of the ability.
Always (except for when u pull) keep one blood run OFF CD. This way your runic empowerment procs only affect your D,U, and F runes, which means more death strikes :). A simple way to manage your two blood runes is simply to use the blood rune thats off CD when the other one is 3 seconds from becoming active!
Try to keep your Frost Fever and Scarlet Fever on the target at all times also. A minimum of 50% of the time. 85-10% is your ultimate goal.
Death Knights serve as the game's most complicated tanking class to date. If you can master it's complexity, you'll like your results.
First you must understand the class deisgn. Summed up, the Death Knight tank will take more damage than the other tanking classes, but will make up for this in large amounts of healing.
Because of this, Mastery is your highest priority stat, followed by avoidance, and then stamina.
Your most valuable ability is Death Strike. For raid bosses, you should use DS as optimally as possible. That means make sure you are never just doing the minimum heal/shield. Make sure you've taken decent damage prior to Death Striking, and make sure that you don't use it at 99% health. Make the heal count as well, or you're only use 50% of the ability.
Always (except for when u pull) keep one blood run OFF CD. This way your runic empowerment procs only affect your D,U, and F runes, which means more death strikes :). A simple way to manage your two blood runes is simply to use the blood rune thats off CD when the other one is 3 seconds from becoming active!
Try to keep your Frost Fever and Scarlet Fever on the target at all times also. A minimum of 50% of the time. 85-10% is your ultimate goal.
Death Knights serve as the game's most complicated tanking class to date. If you can master it's complexity, you'll like your results.
This is very good advice. One thing I would add is to use the Rune of Swordshattering as your runeforge enchant (unless in heroic raids).
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