Frost Build.

This will most likely be my build at 80, unless something changes. It is good for tanking and has all the tank based talents. It should also do decent DPS if off tanking.

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=jcxMZGxxzhezMhRVost0gb

Just in-case someone asks.
The reason for not taking Icy Talons is the haste does not stack with a WF totem. I would imagine that when raiding we will always have at least one.

You have any idea of how they will be at level 80 for pvp ?

Reese wrote:The reason for not taking Icy Talons is the haste does not stack with a WF totem. I would imagine that when raiding we will always have at least one.

WF totem is 16%, IAT is 20%.Unless theres a shammy talent to up WF that im missing
Also, ive not played a DK and ive not really read much about them, but every time i play around with the talent builds to try make a good tank spec, I always come out with Blood looking the best, maybe its me beign completely misguided,but there seems to be alotof tank type talents, self heals, icnreased armor while on low health and such in the blood tree. What I come up with looks like this..

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=j0EhqchcsfkduVohxbzZ0xh

I was not aware of WF only being 16% but would we always have a totem in a raid? If so is it really worth 6 talent points for 4% more?

I can see where you are coming from with blood. Frost does have a couple of new spells specifically for tanking, one of which is in your build anyway. I am not really sure how big a miss unbreakable armour would be, you can basically have it up for 20 seconds every minute and i see it as the DK shield block etc. Blood aura is good for everyone and definately worth 2 points if you are going into blood. It is passive as each of the different tree auras are.

But this is the thing with DK's. In theory every tree can tank or dps. I guess only time will show which is the best. But i know that levelling with blood will definately be the easiest. In HFP as blood i easily soloed all of the elites quests at 59 when most of them were 62 or 63 elites. Except for the prince lookalikey, i went with 3-4 DK's each time and he was dead in about 5 seconds.

regarding PVP i would probably look to an unholy build.

WF is 20% if they are Enhancement, tier 5 of the tree the talent 'Improved Windfury Totem' increases haste gained by 2% each point.
So your right Reese, its really a pointless talent if we raid with at least one enhancement shammy.

Rubber wrote:WF is 20% if they are Enhancement, tier 5 of the tree the talent 'Improved Windfury Totem' increases haste gained by 2% each point.
So your right Reese, its really a pointless talent if we raid with at least one enhancement shammy.

Or a pointless the shammy if we raid with a frost dk? :p
Same for unleashed rage and MM hunters