HI. I have been thinking about learning to tank on a Blood Death Knight and was wondering if it was fairly easy to learn the basics of it. I have tanked in the past on a Prot Paladin mainly and done holiday bosses on a Warrior, Druid, and Monk just for the quicker queue.
I wanted to start tanking on a DK back in Wrath but one of the other tanks in the guild beat me to it and I was asked to stick with my Paladin instead of having 2 of the tanks change classes at the same time. I agreed to it and just haven’t really had the notion to do a Blood DK until now.
I know that it would take a while to get really good at it but would like to know if it was easy to get started with one.
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learn on a guardian druid and save blood for last. It’s not a beginner friendly tank so if you want to try it go for it! 
I thought it was fairly easy to pick up, but I’ve also been playing DKs fairly regularly since LK.
Blood is pretty easy to learn out in the open world because it has pretty good self heals (not quite as good as vengeance or prot pally, but definitely better than prot warrior or mw monk), decent defense, and decent damage. The hardest part is probably deciding when to use heart strike or marrowrend for spending runes. 
Tanking in and of itself is extremely easy regardless of what class you are doing it on.
The difficulty comes from content knowledge and ability to adapt to others mistakes.
As long as you are already fromiliar with SL content, you wont have any problems picking up Blood.
If you arent fromiliar with the content though, Blood is probably going to be the hardest tank to start out on. Especially if you’re unfromiliar with the spec/class.
Dude is claiming tanking is easy, meanwhile he paid for 1 14 carry and hasnt done any heroic content.
This homie lied on his resume.
Well, you have to take into account that i ran that M14 over 100 times.
Blood is not beginner friendly and the lack of haste also makes it feel sluggish.
I’d suggest Bear or… Bear, beefy and good self heals.
It’s pretty straight forward.
If you’re familiar with the tanking lifestyle, you’ll have it figured out in a couple hours of dungeon runs (4-5-6 maybe)
My advice, set everything up the same way as your Paladin. Put your single target abilities on the same binds, AoE matching up and same with defensives. Muscle memory will help ease the transition
Thanks for the replies everyone. I have thought about it a bit and for now I think I will make a Guardian Druid to get back into tanking and see if it is something I want to start doing more of. I also have a Unholy DK that I haven’t leveled through SL yet and so i will work on learning the new dungeons on that character and hopefully I can get familiar how the shared DK class abilities would work on a Blood DK and then decide if I want to continue with Blood or do something else.