Thanks in advance!
Also, any advice on glyphs, spec, reforging, gear stat priority would be greatly appreciated!
PS. Please no "cataclysm out in 10 days" I am aware of this
Hello all! After a recent 6 month hiatus, I have decided to dust off my little death knight and get back to playing. After a month or so, I've gotten him to 80 and put some nice gear on him. However, after getting bored of constant 15k crits, I've decided I want to play a tank. The problem I have however, is I have absolutely zero tank gear. I can buy some wyrmcrest accord rep blues, put on my Ironsoul and start tanking that way, or keep using my current gear which has higher stamina but zero dodge/parry. Can someone tell me how or where I should start gearing up my tank and good places to go?
Thanks in advance!
Also, any advice on glyphs, spec, reforging, gear stat priority would be greatly appreciated!
PS. Please no "cataclysm out in 10 days" I am aware of this
Queue as DPS and spend your JPs on 251 Tier gear and work your way down the vendors (Frost Emblem vendor > Triumph > Conquest etc). That is, if you really must do it. You'll be much better served simply saving JPs for 85 (sorry, had to).
At this stage in the expansion, I'd say forget it. Anything you get will be replaced instantly in a little more than a week.
I know you want to get involved in tanking, but I have to agree that anything you get now will be replaced once level 85 becomes available. And, yeah, that does make any Justice Point purchases at level 80 a waste.
EDIT: I just looked at the items you have.... you could probably get away with tanking heroics just with that, so long as you have the right spec and a 2-hander to use.
i'm in the same boat i have t9 tanking and dps gear i am just waiting til cata for new tanking and dps gear its not worth the time to queue as dps. you may want to spend your time farming gold and buying flight mastery for the extra 30% mounted speed.
I just turned 80 on this dk, though leveled as tank. It's near impossible trying to justify waiting a week while I'm rolling around in 1.8kgs. The hardest part for me, and this is readily apparent for all the other classes, is trying to differentiate the good info for starting gear, versus theorycrafting for those with nice gear and their corresponding tactics. I'll just keep on-a-readin...
It's simple really.
Since the only way to Tank something is to make sure you're hitting it, prioritize gear with +Hit and +Expertise on it (up until you're 8%/26 respectively). Since Blood Shield is a significant source of damage mitigation (your second job - not die from the boss hitting you), this places even more of an emphasis on Hit/Expertise gear.
Outside of that, you should know that currently, Healers have infinite mana. Therefore, Avoidance takes a back seat to flat mitigation (Armor). If you're looking at a piece of gear and it has more Armor on it than the current piece, and you're Hit/Expertise capped, you'll generally want it. If significant Armor is lost for a gain in Avoidance, it's probably best to keep that for an off-set.
After that it's just making sure you maintain these caps and keep your Mastery and Armor up, and that's all there is.
Certain fights favor certain gear sets. Since you asked for simple advice (if I'm reading correctly), I'll let you find that on your own later on.
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Since the only way to Tank something is to make sure you're hitting it, prioritize gear with +Hit and +Expertise on it (up until you're 8%/26 respectively)
172 is the expertise soft cap now, it still has a value past that point but is largely diminished.
Queue as DPS and spend your JPs on 251 Tier gear and work your way down the vendors (Frost Emblem vendor > Triumph > Conquest etc). That is, if you really must do it. You'll be much better served simply saving JPs for 85 (sorry, had to).
This.
In 10 days you can get full T10, all the extra gear from the vendors and be back at JP cap for 85.
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