New to tanking...

I just started tanking on my DK, and am just using the gear I had to reach d-cap. I'm currently using a frost spec and a fairly simple rotation. Anyone have suggestions on spec/rotation or just tips in general to help keep aggro, etc? Any help would be appreciated!

Use a RuneStrike macro for every ability, for example here's a macro for IT:

#showtooltip
/cast Icy Touch
/cast !Rune Strike

The '!' modifier on the Rune Strike makes sure that it won't toggle off RS.


http://elitistjerks.com/f72/t44638-sunos_fireside_chat_dk_endgame_tanking/

im not sure about Frost pres, but in Blood and Unholy DK what you need to do is, macro your PS, IT, HS/BS, DS/SS, And DC(if unholy) to do Runestrike. You can even go as far as to macro ur D&D and Pestilence too. what i do is.

#showtooltip
/cast Icy Touch
!cast Runic Strike

Hope this helps u as much as it helped me

Thanks, I'll try that in a bit

Respecced to blood and set those macros, and I'm not quite sure how I was tanking before Really helps a lot, thanks!

Just out of curiosity, would these macros generate too much threat for dps?

there's a good possibility, as rune strike is a "generates high threat" attack. you might be better off leaving it out of dps rotations.

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