DK tanking
Well, I tanked on my death knight for the first time last night. Now, I am just barely defense capped. I’m not close to hit capped in my tanking gear. I have little to no expertise rating. So I thought I would start out with a normal instance. The result? It was trivial. Normal Trial of the Champion was my first instance. It was, if anything, easier than on my fairly well geared bear.
Now, I believe you can safely attribute some of this to the fact that it was a normal instance, not a heroic. And, for the most part, the group seemed to know what they were doing (except for the DPSing dk). But once I remembered to switch to frost presence, nobody was ever within 10% of me on Omen. And aoe tanking was so much easier on the death knight (mind you, I’m Blood, not Unholy, so AOE tanking really isn’t how I’m specced). The only thing I could ask for is a tanking talent that would allow you to reset the cooldown for death and decay every couple minutes…that was a part of one of the other tanking talents I already have:D).
So, after succeeding on TOC, I decided that I would be willing to try tanking a heroic. 1st up - Utgarde Pinnacle - let me preface, I don’t like UP. Skadi is one of the worst fights in the game for randomness and people not paying attention and I’m really not great at tanking it - my reaction times are just too slow to save people who won’t save themselves. On the other hand, after we worked out that DPS would have to single target to start out with (and I remembered to switch back to frost presence), it was a pretty smooth run. In fact, at the end, one of the random people commented I was one of the better DK tanks they had seen lately. Now, I’m sure that wasn’t that hard, but considering it was my first run in a heroic on my DK, I was pleased.
It remains to be seen if I will like DK tanking as much as Bear tanking when the gear level is comparable, but It has been okay thus far.
