Massive, game changing news for DK tanks everywhere today: Frost and Unholy are falling away as tank trees, and the Blood tree will change to be tanking focused. This will bring DK’s in line with Paladins and Warriors in terms of having 1 dedicated tanking tree with all the required tools. This is a good thing. Frost tanks might disapprove right now but the reality is that this is something we’ve needed for a long time. Sure, DK’s have enough of the basics to do a passable job at tanking, but the reality has always been that we’ve spent far more points taking DPS talents for threat than taking actual mitigation and utility talents. Even a quick comparison between my level 40 Prot warrior and my level 80 DK shows a gap in utility level that is, simply speaking, a chasm. I have concussion blow, sunder, thunderclap, cleave, revenge, shield block, shield wall, last stand, demo shout, challenging shout and more, all on a lowly level 40 warrior. 40 more levels will at least double the amount of tools I have available as a warrior. It is incredible just how much more I have available.

Hopefully Cataclysm will thus cram a lot more ‘oh snap’ buttons and mitigation talents into one tree, in turn turning DK’s into ‘real’ tanks. In fact, just this one announcement alone heralds massive changes for the class. DK’s in cataclysm look set to be nothing like DK’s in WotLK, whether Blood Tank or Frost or Unholy dps. And that’s pretty cool with me.

For the full announcement, check this post at pwnwear.

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