I've had healers praise me and I've had a couple say that I'm squishiness... Could be my ability rotation and rune management but hey what do I know? I know that my DS could be better timed and when I feel like agro is everywhere I spam HS/BB more than I should, burning up deathrunes. But I thought I had it pretty much down.
My guild healers have absolutely no issues with me, it's only PuGs.
So tips please
The first thing I noticed was your rune, while the obvious first tanking choice and the best in WotLK, it's been determined that for cata the 4% parry from swordshattering is a greater benefit to DK tanks than 2% increased health and slightly more threat. Besides that as long as you change out your dps items (I only noticed the trinket, only skimmed over the others) It looks like you know to gem/reforge mastery and have the right enchants (what enchants you do have, I'd suggest getting the rest fixed up.
as for rotation, as far as I know, save at least one DS for a big hit if you know it''s coming to maximize its effectiveness, be sure to spread diseases for scarlet fever and DnD as well as BB and you'll never have threat issues on AoE pulls, liberal use of rune strike and you're golden.
Replace the DPS items, and 3 items are missing enchants. 1 point in Epidemic is odd. You might want to move a point from Bladed Armor into Lichborne, as that's the whole reason for sub-speccing frost.
Are you following the ability priority in the tanking sticky? And as a DK tank, your health is going to oscillate a ton--that's just how it is.
Replace the DPS items, and 3 items are missing enchants. 1 point in Epidemic is odd. You might want to move a point from Bladed Armor into Lichborne, as that's the whole reason for sub-speccing frost.
Are you following the ability priority in the tanking sticky? And as a DK tank, your health is going to oscillate a ton--that's just how it is.
I haven't unlocked Therazane yet, but I'm working on it, so the shoulder chant is out for me right now. As for the legs, I have it in my bag for when I get the 2200jp to by the 359 legs. i didn't even notice the bracers were missing one, I can fix that easily.
The reason I subbed frost was for the free interrupt. I was finding that not only am I one of the only one who interrupts in the first place but also I would be short on RP without it. The 1 point in Epidemic was just to give my diseases a few more secs of up time which seemed to work out a bit better for me at the time. I don't really see a huge bonus to having Lichborn for the machine gun self heal every 2mins, I can see it in a raid but not in the 5man heroics right now.
I'm thinking I should macro Vampiric Blood into one of my abilities as I keep forgetting I have it and/or tend to save it until damage becomes a bit much for a healer
Personally I'm thinking that most healers just aren't use to DKs in Cata, I rarely come across them when I'm healing anymore. Like I said, my guild healers seem okay with me but the PuGs are 50/50.
Thanks guys
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