Frost tanking in 3.2

[Sanontry]

Hello,

So as time of 3.2 is coming closer and closer I started to think about reliable spec for tanking. Atm im using Frost 1 disease rotation build (HB-OB-BS-BS -dump- etc) Im MT/OT in our guild Uld 10 and in some fights I have some problems with threat, becouse if I dont crit my TPS falls down badly, so if anyone could give some advise I would thank them.

Now back to the subject I was trying to make a build for 3.2 and this is what I made : http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...&version=10116 . If anyone could rate or give few advises for changes I would be thankfull (Im still planning to stick with 2h and 1 disease rotation, unless you guys give me some great ideas)

Thanks

[Fizzprocket]

Drop Vicious Strikes and Ravenous Dead & Morbidity imo, and get Bladed Armor, Scent of Blood and either 2h mastery or 2/5 Dark Conviction, ending up with something like this: http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...&version=10116

Reasons being: you're not using plague strike, nor scourge strike, so improving them is a waste of two talent points. As for Morbidity - you're really only using it on the pull, so it's a kind of waste. And you'll have enough AoE threat from HB & Blood Boil anyway. And while the 3% str from ravenous dead might seem neat, it's not that good for tanking. It's about 32 STR in my tanking gear, and I doubt it'd grant more than 50 tops in BiS gear (probably more like 40). That's not a lot of AP increase, and even less parry.

On the other hand, bladed armor grants me, hmm...128 AP, more than I'd get from strength. And Scent of Blood is a good source of runic power.

[Sanontry]

Thanks, the only reason i was thinking about Morbidity is 1 fight - Thorims, and having in mind that most of the time I stay to tank the arena 15sec on DnD looks very nice.

[Fizzprocket]

Untalented D&D, HB & BB are perfectly fine for Thorim arena. Been there, done that plenty of times.

[nort]

On the other hand, bladed armor grants me, hmm...128 AP, more than I'd get from strength.

what do you mean by this? acording to ur armor it should give u 152.75 AP per point or 763.75 if u get 5/5 in the talent

anyway... 2H specialization is awesome talent. i dont see why u didnt take it yet.

[blackcassiel]

Using the 1 disease rotation could be hurting your threat too...as a frost tank ur a spell based tank...if you start off with DnD ur threat shouldnt be much of an issue. U want to be dual diseasing and rotating off of that...

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...&version=10116

I don't know if ur spell hit capped without the armory link, but I threw in Virulence if u werent. Seeing as it seems you don't like ur diseases wearing off i used Epidemic to give you more time to slap things before the disease wears off/refreshing it...as a tank Killing machine wouldn't proc enough to be of benefit i would think...as it's more of a dps talent, because like i said before, as frost ur throwing more spells than you are meleeing.

the rotation i used for frost spec was opening with DnD then to the rotation of IT/PS/BS or Pest/BS/Oblit or HB/ Oblit or HB...if it was a single target fight i would repeat this...if it was multi mobs then after that rotation I started at the first BS or Pest, normally opening with Pest then BB and continued with Oblit/Hb x2...it's just a matter of how many things as the tank you need to be hitting.

[Nyanmaru]

Using the 1 disease rotation could be hurting your threat too...as a frost tank ur a spell based tank...if you start off with DnD ur threat shouldnt be much of an issue. U want to be dual diseasing and rotating off of that...

Last time I tanked frost, more than 50% of my damage was RS/OB/Melee...

[xxzincxx]

Last time I tanked frost, more than 50% of my damage was RS/OB/Melee...

As it should be. i tank trash and MT, and my overall numbers still show RS in the #1 spot of my dmg done. Howling blast is either 3rd or 4th.