Death Knight Talent Spec

Well to begin this 2nd installment…..lol…..look at me! This sounds like a TV show. "Will Harry ever meet Eliza?" "And will Joseph be cured?" Find out in the next Episode of Drama Live!! Thursday at 10:00am!
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So my DK is now level 80. What do I do now? Dailies? Yes. Finish zone quests for Achievements? Yes. What about Heroics? YES!! But what about me? Am I a DPSer (damage per second)? Am I a Healer? Wait a minute…I wear plate! I always hated PuGs where the tank didn’t know what he was doing but acted like it and then caused the group to wipe. Why not become a tank? I can DPS, I can’t heal and I can wear tank gear to become a tank. I have two DPS toons already. Why not take a stab at being a tank?
So I settled with becoming a tank. A DK tank. Now to pick the spec and use my talents for the benefit of my group. With great power comes great responsibility. (oh no he didn’t.) Oh Yes I did!!
Being a tank is a big responsibility. So I have to be mature and make good decisions for my spec. What will keep me alive and cause enough threat to mobs around me to stay focused on me, not my DPS and certainly not my healer. Here’s what I came up with:
TALENT LINK
Blood specc’d : 56/10/5 I call this the Blood Gorged Tank.

First off, every DK tank and I mean ALL DK tanks should have the tier 1 rank 5 of Anticipation from Unholy tree, Toughness from the Frost tree and Blade Barrier from the Blood tree. All 3 of those are essential for DK tanks. If you don’t have those you’re not a tank.
Now prior to Lich King release and even after, rumors were abound that made people think and act and say that the Frost tree was the tanking tree for DKs. Well in an attempt to make these rumors stop, and for the pure fact that Blood DKs sound really cool. I went with Blood! Now I did my research. I checked talent calculators, websites, blogs, etc. to try and find information on DK tanks. At the time not much existed, but I found the stat requirements I needed to begin. Now I, myself love tanking with 2 handed weapons so all stats and talents are based on that. Dual wield tanking causes too much parry gibbing which you would need a lot of EXPERTISE for. Below are the stats needed:
DK Tank stats needed:
DEF 540 cap
HIT 293-296 cap /2handers
HEALTH 28k+
PARRY 20%
DODGE 20%
EXP 60
The main stat every DK should stack is STRENGTH. STRENGTH (STR) is Attack Power (AP) and PARRY. So no matter if you’re DPS or Tank....you cannot ever have enough strength. Right now the ratio is 4STR to 1PARRY. So all tanks out there stack as much as you can get! DPS same goes for you. For every 1STR is 2AP. Now for the sake of our non-weapon attacks and diseases. All of these are known as spells, basically magic effects. All spell power for DKs are scaled with AP. Under no circumstances should you be gearing in Spell power plate. Leave the pally stuff alone, they need it, we don't. Expertise: This statistic is actually relatively useful to DK tanks. It takes approximately 8.2 expertise rating to equal 1 expertise at 80. You'll need about 26 expertise to prevent dodges, which is all a DPS should need since mobs can't parry from behind, or about 60 expertise to prevent parries, which would be nice for tanks, but shouldn't be taken at the expense of too many mitigation or avoidance stats.
Now back to talents. I chose the Blood tree for a few reasons.
1: The self-healing the tree gives you, I feel, helps relieves some healers’ stresses. Improved Rune tap, Bloodworms and Vampiric Blood are great along with Blood Aura.
2: I like the Spell Deflection talent. It’s quite useful for most if not all bosses and mobs in Northrend instances and raids and paired with Anti-Magic Shell, negates most magic spells against you.
3: Veteran of the Third War talent has the rank 3 increase in STR for your PARRY and the STAM increase for your health along with the EXPERTISE boost that the tanks will need.
4: Will of the Necropolis talent is great for those last second stands against Bosses that have the last 1% you need to knock out.
5: Heart Strike talent offers a great tank action cleave for multiple target mobs.

I lean heavily on DPS talents if you notice. This is mainly for THREAT. I did try a couple spec twists by delving deeper into Frost for Lichborne and Unholy for Unholy Command but going through several instances and raids my THREAT was way too low and I was unable on some pulls to keep mobs on me. Blizzard has said that they wanted DKs to be tanks with DPS power to back them up. They meant it. Without the DPS to back up my tanking I would be a bad tank.
Now I know some of you out there will be saying that Frost has Unbreakable Armor and Unholy has Bone Shield. Wouldn’t it be better to spec into those talents? For the most part I would agree. On the other hand Vampiric Blood to comparable to both those talents, I might even be willing to say that VB is better in some regards. Vampiric Blood’s tooltip states ‘increases the amount of health generated through spells and effects by 35% for 20secs’. With all of the Blood trees self-healing abilities is where this comes into play. VB followed by Rune Tap (which by the way crits) could save your life if the healer just ran out of mana and needs a quick breather but you still have 17 secs of VB left! Death Strike, Bloodworms, Blood Aura and Health Pots are all multiplied by this effect! Shoot pop your dodge trinkets and bandage yourself! Even that is multiplied. I know, I’ve done it. Also Death Pact is awesome for that last second heal. Pop Raise Ghoul then Death Pact. All of these can be done while VB is active. I’ve tested the timing. You can be literally on the brink of death, but VB is flexible enough to bring you right back to full health plus some. Can Unbreakable Armor and Bone Shield do that? The answer is NO.

Now this post was quite long, but I hope it answers questions. Shoot I hope it asks questions. Please comment. Ask questions, reply about misconception, anything. Criticism is good. Just a reminder that this is my first time doing something like this and I hope to get better! See ya next installment! I hoping for questions in the comments to answer for that one.