Blood Will Be Only Tanking Spec For Death Knights

Sure was nice while it lasted, being able to dual-wield, blood, frost, and even unholy tank as a Death Knight.  However, that time has come to pass and the next patch will be the end of unique tanking trees, when 4.0.1 becomes live, Blood will be the only tanking tree.  This becomes a real bummer for me, since I had finally got used to dual-wield tanking in Frost and loving it.

Early on, while learning to tank as a Death Knight, I had been using the Blood spec.  It provided a lot more room for error, plenty of hit points, just maybe not so much control over AOE threat.  Thankfully Blizzard has made it clear that they will be stealing some of the talents from Unholy and Frost to make up for the lack of Blood specific tanking abilities.

Several of the more fun tanking talents from Frost and Unholy will be moved into Blood. 

There has been some speculation that the next patch will be out next Tuesday, October 12th.  Start holding your breath now.