Death Knight Forums

The internet can be a vile and horrid place, full of misinformation.  Websites seemingly devoted to helping you improve your game can be a haven for those looking to troll and upset your actual abilities.  Keep this in mind as I provide the following links to Death Knight forums, most all information must be taken with a grain of salt.  Use this information found on these Death Knight forums wisely.

Official WoW Death Knight Class Forum - One of the larger offenders of providing misinformation.  Often these forums are trolled by others looking to spread incorrect information and strengthen the myth that all Death Knights are bads.  Only use these Death Knight forums as a last resort if the Death Knight information you are looking for cannot be found anywhere else.

Elitist Jerks Death Knight Forum - The EJ forums are some of the better place to find information, less the idiots looking to cause havoc.  However, with great power comes great confusion, so expect to comb through a lot of numbers and theory crafting to find the simple details.  Most information found on the Elitist Jerks Death Knight forum has been tested, retested, numbers crunched, and then made complicated and then throughly spread out over the course of 100+ pages.  If you can find what you are looking for then consider it golden.

WowHead Death Knight Class Forum - I would place the Wowhead forums one step above the official World of Warcraft forums, in regards to troll population.  More often than not there is a slew of idiot questions and not enough answers.  Furthermore this problem is compounded by having idiots spewing more misinformation, mainly those details that they found on the official WoW forums.  Garbage in, Garbage out.

DeathKnight.Info Forums - This can be a pretty good source of information and interaction within the Death Knight community, however it is not heavily traveled.  So, you may get all kinds of replies and feedback on general wow or Death Knight discussions, but specific information is generally copied and pasted from other sources.

MMO Champion Death Knight Forum - Pretty good mix of information and fun details mixed into one well designed Death Knight forum.  MMO Champion is also known for having the latest information on upcoming patches and behind the scenes information on Blue Posts from Blizzard.

Ten Ton Hammer Death Knight Forum - Again, pretty good forum for Death Knight information, but not one that is heavily traveled.  As of this post there were only a handful of threads that had even been updated in the past 15-30 days.  So, if you are looking for some general information it might work out, but for some patch sensitive info you might want to stick to some of the other options listed above.

Lastly, just a reminder, use all of these Death Knight forums as a tool.  A lot of the information surrounding Death Knights can be interpreted differently and should not 100% affect your play style.  Learn what you can, apply what you know, and test test test to see what works best for your Death Knight.  Have fun and beware of the forum trolls.

The Problem With 25 Man Raid Tanks

A diamond in the rough has emerged with a very thoughtful thread on Death Knights tanking level 25 Raid dungeons. Essentially most agree that there isn't an issue, even in 10 man Raids, but once a DK tank makes it to 25 he becomes too squishy.

Generally speaking most Death Knight tanks can handle the threat production, have plenty of armor, great evasion, but just can't cut it when they get hit. In a 25 man Raid, when they get hit, they get hit hard and it becomes an issue for healers. Where as compared to Paladins, Warriors, and Druids, healers have more consistency with heal requirements.

Below are a few suggestions by the thread starter:

1. Make Toughness back to the way it was with 15% increase to armor at 5 points, but switch it's position with Killing Machine. This puts the armor talent deeper into the tree(4th row) similir to both warriors and pallys both on the 3rd row of talents, forcing those that want it for PvP to ether spec frost or switch up where they put their points. Putting KM on the first row is completely uselss to both Blood and Unholy since they won't have Frost Strike or Howling Blast.

2. Have the Frost Pressence talent increase armor bonus by 5/10% and reduce damage by 1/2% or just increase armor by 10/20%

Most Death Knight tanks responding to the thread are suggesting that the talent trees become specialized. As it stands now, almost any tree can perform almost any roll. Like other tanking classes, there should be a clear tanking tree and a clear DPS tree. This way a Death Knight can specialize in either/or, instead of mediocre at all.