How important is mastery to blood now?

with the new blood shield how important is mastery to DK tanks now?
same as always.

edit: because i know someone will pipe up... There's a certain level of gear where theoretically we'd be stacking up to 100% shields constantly. when that happens mastery will be devalued. until then, nothing's changed.
I've always considered it pretty important but then again I don't do heroic 25mans. (yet?)

The on-demand mitigation is amazing, it stacks now so you can be a little less picky about waiting until your shield pops before putting another on (if you're raid-tanking then it's not really an issue at most times anyways, but still), and it's more fun in my opinion.

There is no reason to cookie cutter yourself quite yet since both avoidance and mastery are viable (and arguably close in effectiveness) ways to build a DK Tank even still.

I just wish I didn't need to Lichborne heal. I don't "like" it. It feels off.
I don't use lichborne and do fine.
thx for the speedy answers...on another note is it still advisable for deseaseless tanking with the new changes?
if we can get by with out then virulence is pretty worthless.

(does any1 remember what the old crimson scourge talent read?)
use outbreak.

there's really no where else to put points but virulence.

Personally, since we have 2 constant raiding dk's. I will be reapplying scarlet fever via BP once every minute by BT + PS to get a free one. Outbreak should be up to reapply again. Frost Fever will be taken care of by the DPS.




thx again :)