Bring Back Frost Tank! and other DK Ideas

I would love Frost to tank again. Apologies if you are a Frost DK and love the DPS. I have had this issue since they took it away in Wrath. (We all hold our grudges ok?)

Frost DK would use Ice as a Shield. This ideally would give Block rating to DK. They specialize in slowing mobs around them. Mastery stat would increase Runic Power Generation.

A) Pillar of Frost is now stacking Ice Shield. Runic spender. Would love for this to be similar to Ironfur, as our main mitigation. Try and have this as maximum uptime.

B)Frostwyrm fury renamed Sindragosa’s fury. Current Breath of Sindragosa would be eliminated as it is a DPS talent.

C) D&D converts to Permafrost at level 10. Similar to Defile, this could at base decrease movement speed.

D) Frost DK now has an aura similar to devotion aura.

E) Could still Dual Wield. Maybe have one side of the Spec Tree to DWing, and the other side Two Handed. DW could have a Riposte like mechanic for counter attacks, while Two Handed could have a better Parry rating.

2)Unholy
A) AoE is Disease spread and epidemic
B) Single target is festering wounds burst.
C) The center stays the same.
D) Unholy aura applies movement buff.
E) Defile is no longer on the tree Granted at 10.
F) Frost fever and blood plague added to spec.

  1. Blood
    A) Stays relatively the same. Death strike has blood specific buff to revert changes.
    B) Abomination limb is blood specific pull in.
    C) Blood aura provides priest stamina buff or Death and Decay applies stacking debuffs increasing damage taken to hostiles.

  2. Class changes
    A) Capstone talent for permanent pet. Unholy Talent grants 2nd pet.

I know the likelihood of any of this happening is close to zero, but it was fun to think and type up. We need more tanks, and I think this would be a unique tank idea. Would love to hear if anything on here is crazy.

Flame away if you’d like.

Hot take or not, they never should have given dk the normalized talent trees. They’ve done nothing but make the class worse. When our roles were slightly ambiguous and up to the player choosing the talents was when DK was at its peak, blizzard has hated us ever since.

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