3.1 Frost tank questions

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Post by GenXCub

Icy Reach does increase HB's radius, but most of the time you don't need that range unless you're fighting multiple ranged/casters who you can't DG or get close to one another. In any event, it's for specific fights, and definitely not needed on boss fights.

Morbidity can be skipped if you're with your guild. D&D is actually very commonly used on in pull rotations in PuGs because DPS can't hold their water and must unleash ALL their tricks (and probably not even at the skull) before you can get off a IT PS Pest HB.

As far as Rune Power Mastery, it's nice to have so that you can do 3 frost strikes on a RP dump. Annihilation will be good in 3.1 since HB is on 10 second cooldown, so on boss fights, you may want to be dumping your runes on Obliterate. I think it may also end up depending on the new and improved Plague Strike and its increased damage.

Your revised build will work fine as far as I can tell. I will personally move more towards either unholy tank or a 45/5/21 blood tank.

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Post by Nystali

I do have Acclimation talented because I wanted to get a sense of it.

Most of the time it is completely useless. On some fights it is very very very nice when it gets a full three stacks going.

I'm actually very cheap when it comes to respecs because I'm worried about making a mistake and having to refresh and start over several times and so I haven't untalented out of it. I do also have frost aura and if I was more inclined to spend the gold, I wouldn't have it either.

When dual specs come in, I'm trying to decide if I want a full DPS spec or if maybe I want a secondary Tank spec for perhaps resistance fights where acclimation might be more useful. When we get our talent refund in 3.1, my primary tank spec will most likely not include Acclimation.

Oh, and fully stacked acclimation does gives 150 points of resistance just to give you a number compared to the 130 points that a other classes' resistance auras/totems and does not stack with them.

Overall, if I were talenting myself now, I'd be more inclined to make sure there was the haste buff of improved icy talons for the party/raid than to make sure there was a randomly proccing resistance buff.