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Any benefit DW Frost tank instead of 2h?
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Zxian
Dark, IMO, you don't need epidemic since you're using Howling Blast on every cooldown to refresh your FF. That's the only change that I'd make.
In my experience (I'll have to check my datas tomorrow after servers go back up), obliterate hits much harder than HB does on single targets. If you're looking to maximize single target threat, keep Epidemic since you'll only be using your FU runes for Obliterate, and relying on HB to refresh Frost Fever when it's about to run out (not after).
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Achloryn
Dark, IMO, you don't need epidemic since you're using Howling Blast on every cooldown to refresh your FF. That's the only change that I'd make.
In my experience (I'll have to check my datas tomorrow after servers go back up), obliterate hits much harder than HB does on single targets. If you're looking to maximize single target threat, keep Epidemic since you'll only be using your FU runes for Obliterate, and relying on HB to refresh Frost Fever when it's about to run out (not after).
i would think the oblit/HB hitting harder is relative.. HB is a magic effect, and therefore not mitigated by a bosses armor, so wouldn't that generally be a priority every time anyway?
edit: i meant to ask
Sigh - parry-gibbing is not a factor in Wotlk please stop stating it.
when did this happen? i'll grant i hadn't been to the dk forums in a while until recently, but i thought this was still a semi high reason.
if for no other reason than because a dual-wielding DK has twice as many chances to be parried as any other form of tank.. get parried two swings in a row means two melee hits absorbed in about 1 second whereas that wouldn't normally happen for.. idk, 3-4 seconds right?
what causes parry-gibb to not be a big factor anymore?
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Ashigore
As I have stated in other thread on the same subject:
Dual Wield tanking is just BAAAAD. You will get more parries on your autoattacks and thus more parry haste attacks, that leads to you eating more damage and more stress on your healers or even death.
As a tank your main role is to survive and dual wield is not helping here, on the opposite - it makes your like more difficult.
Dual Wield tanking is just bad idea, you should stick with 2h weapon.
And it's not about misses as some state here, it's about more attacks from the boss.
Your missing the point, staying alive is easy, you just dont hold agro on the boss and laugh while he runs about and kills everyone else.
Your job as a tank is to keep mobs and bosses hitting you while mitigating/avoiding as much damage as possible.
You cannot do this effectively with crappy threat especially with dps doing upwards of 7k dps. Good tanks have a balance of threat, avoidance and stamina often with a full stam and/or avoidance set for those extreme hard hitting bosses.
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when did this happen? i'll grant i hadn't been to the dk forums in a while until recently, but i thought this was still a semi high reason.
if for no other reason than because a dual-wielding DK has twice as many chances to be parried as any other form of tank.. get parried two swings in a row means two melee hits absorbed in about 1 second whereas that wouldn't normally happen for.. idk, 3-4 seconds right?
what causes parry-gibb to not be a big factor anymore?
Parry hasting was the rule in Burning Crusade, but in LK, a number of bosses don't parry at all, and the ones that do don't get a noticeable swing timer effect from a parry.
Now, you'd never say it doesn't exist, but it's not the killer that it was in Burning Crusade. People in here tend to exaggerate its effects on dual wielding DK's.
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