Hi all.I want to main tank ,in general for pve solo and m+ 15 not higher.Is good blood dk for that? Have a nice dps for solo content and survivability in m+? Ty
It’s fine for +15. Not great, but fine. If you’re going to pug your way to 15s, it’s definitely near the bottom of the tanks, so you’ll have harder time getting into groups. But tanks are always in demand, so it won’t be impossible.
which tank will be better for +15 with pugs?
VDH or Guardian druid. VDH is the meta tank everyone wants, Guardian is just incredibly tanky.
SL trash hits extremely hard causing kiting meta. Blood DK has no mobility, has to facetank everything and doesn’t have the raw durability of say a Guardian druid nor the high damage of a Vengeance DH or Prot paladin.
Fun to play mechanically speaking with DS healing those huge hits, but it is definitely one of the more challenging tanks to go with if your aim is to do higher keys.
Mostly a class that sits at <50% HP and burning runes on constant cd and trying to time of spam DS. Sometimes to exhaustion. Very little room to make mistakes. Needs more armor value. Needs bone shield mechanic reworked or removed because 2+ mobs is just a marrowrend spam key and DRW is rarely off cd. Can be a hectic tank with little breathing room until you outheal the healer or content. Oh and also has if not the weakest threat of all the tanks, either due to threat numbers or because of it’s crap damage output. You’ll be lucky to net over 4k dps in huge aoe pulls with best gear when pretty much all the rest of the tanks will be nicely above that. We could use the upcoming 6% BOOST in PTR right now and not then. Probably needs another 6% on top of that as well but Blizzard are years behind in there reservations to adjust DK as a whole anyway.
All in all it will net you so far in to the game, I enjoy mine but I always feel handicapped when playing comparison with my other tanks I muck around in. That’s sort of why I always enjoy it more is to suffer well. Too dam well…
Blood DK is fine for 15s and raids.
If you’re not planning to do higher keys, Blood is a decent spec. You have one of the best self sustain in the game for those keys.
The only thing you should know about Blood DK is that DMG wise is not in a great spot at all. Tank DMG is not as important in 15s as it is on higher but still something to keep in mind when you’re running with certain classes with big bust.
So… if you’re looking for a Tank with nice DPS, Blood is definitely not for you.
I have to agree with most. I would suggest any other tank over BDK now. I run as prot warrior which is in a good spot right now with good (easy to get) legendary. Though if i choose again i would main VDH because of the kiting meta. Problem with VDH is high probability of nerf hammer since they are so stupid overpowered i; this s1.
I usually try to main BDK every tier, but the last many tiers I’ve had to give up on it.
Sadley the BDK has been put in the corner - especially with this kiting-tier.
#theSlowJugganautTryingToRunAway
Dont listen to these people trying to say BDK is in a bad spot!
Im 204 ilvl and i have no issues tanking +12 pug groups, its not impressive but I also playing Venguance DH and these guys are lot squishier than my bdk is.
with venguance dh you’re actually in the need to start kiting once your metamorphosis runnin out, while with bdk you can still facetank as long as you can stay healthy on your bone shields and runic power.
you have really nice pack control with deathgrip, massgrib, stun, DnD Aoe slow, Icy chains.
due to AMS and deaths advance (immune to knockback), you can cheese alot of mechanics in dungeons and even recover from situations were any other tank would have died, or atleast used some heavly big CDs.
you’re the most selfsustain tank and you living or dying is completly in your hands, you will usually end up healing more than your healer.
you’re BY FAR the most reactive tank - while managing the pulls, you still have to press deathstrike at the right moment - this makes it pretty hard for people to pick up i guess.
yes we have the worst dmg and worst threat and eventually find yourself trying to get aggro back really often but usually this is not your vault but the firemages incompetence of not precasting mirrors or the demonhunters first global being the hunt followed by an eyebeam (but god bless they can kite ;))
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