A Unholy Tankng Spec 7/10/54

[Alenin]

Hey. This is my first tanking build for DK but this is what I have so far.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0gZ0...hVocsux:oMpmcM

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

[Putress]

I'd shuffle some talent points around. In blood get Scent of Blood and try to max Bladed Armor. They're handy talents to gain some more threat. If you find yourself with plenty threat, then it's not mandatory.

In frost get rid of Black Ice. You're an unholy spec and thus your main attack is scourge strike and not obliterate so the added frost damage is quite useless. Your'e not specced for Necrosis either so the added shadow damage is kind of a waste too. Get Improved Icy Touch instead. 6% slower attacks speed means less hits on you.

Blood-Caked Blade in Unholy is not really that good. Your auto attacks are a small portion of your dps and the extra damage isn't that big, considering at 30% chance it's actually not worth speccing for. Reaping is a must in my opinion. More runes avaliable means more room for improvising in rotations and generally more attacks. I'm not a big fan of Desecration. The added 5% damage isn't worth spending 5 talent points in. The slow effect can be handy when mobs get away, but you should not let that happen anyway. I'm not a fan of Wandering Plague either. Your melee critical strike chance is low and thus proc rarely happen. Keep it if you see the different but otherwise forget about it.

Taking this into account I'd probably spec for this: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0EhZ...I0Rcoux:MmR0Vm

[Jiai]

Your'e not specced for Necrosis either so the added shadow damage is kind of a waste too.

You are probably right that Bladed Armor > BlackIce for a tank, because we have a lot more armor and less base attack power than a DPS, but everything in unholy is based on shadow and frost damage, including Scourge strike, (improved) diseases, UB and DC. The idea make sense.

[Alenin]

Thanks for the replies. I decided you were right about the Black Ice because I will causing little frost damage but I decided to keep Desicration and Wandering Plague. I can see where you are coming from with Reaping but I feel that most of the time I will be using my blood runes as blood runes, since I have glyph of disease, and if I need that extra Death Rune I can just Blood Tap. I don't think IUP is worth it though, you don't really need the move speed for anything. My modified tanking spec would be,

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0EhZ...hVocsux:oMpm0M

Though I suppose this spec would be better for heroics and AoE fights then single target.