So confused about dk specs

im reading that frost is dps and blood is tank.

but also reading that blood is dps and frost is tank.

and unholy is straight dps, i take it.

can someone help me understand the specs?

i cant decide which spec to choose!
i dont really want to tank because im not that good at it.

Go unholy and never look back

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every spec could tank in old wrath but i’m sure some nerds have crunched numbers to min max it

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This is correct, all 3 specs can dps or tank but Blood became the main tanking spec for all its absorbs and self heals.

You are confusing the talent trees with the presences. For example. For tanking, most of the talent points go in the blood tree. But while tanking you switch to frost presence. Frost presence causes less damage taken and more threat.

Dps puts most of its talent points in the frost tree but when fighting they use blood presence.

Originally, all three specs were capable of tanking by just switching to frost presence.

Its like a warrior switches into defensive stance or a druid goes into bear form. That what frost presence is.

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Frost and unholy are typically your dps specs. Blood is your tank spec/ideal leveling spec, although any of the above work well enough for leveling too

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