Death Knight Tanking

This guide will cover what the best enchants for your Death Knight per slot. This guide assumes that you are defense capped at 540 defense, if you are not, then you may want to take any defense enchants that may have not made their way to the #1 slot.

Please keep in mind that some things in this guide are only for specific professions, they are labeled so there is no confusion. This guide covers not only enchants but everything that is considered an item enhancement.

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Mighty Armor - +225 Armor
Titanweave - +16 defense

Death Knights are the only class that can legitimately tank out of any tree they want. I am going to share with you two of the better builds from the Blood and Frost trees for tanking. There are infinite builds but these have worked well for me in the past. There are commonalities in talents though no matter what tree is your primary, such as 5 points in anticipation and 5 points in Toughness. 5 points in Blade Barrier too is usually recommended.

Death Knight Blood Tanking

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http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jcEGVh0Icbofssx0xZ0gh:pdiV0M

Death Knights mitigation abilities include dodge and parry. LIke the Druid they are not able to wear a shield so Block and Block rating will serve no purpose. This also means that stacking strength will not help your mitigation although it will help threat by increasing attack power. Your main tanking stats then are doing to be Defense, Parry, Dodge, Agility, Armor, and Stamina.

These macros are primarily for a Frost Tank as they use abilities you can only get in the Frost tree such as Howling Blast and Frost Strike. You can modify them to fit whichever tree you're tanking from fairly easily just by being aware of what runes each skill uses.