Ayer estaba viendo antes de entrar a una heroica a un DK tanque DW que dió comienzo a una interesante discusión sobre su viabilidad o no, seamos claros DW Tanking suena genial y se ve mejor, además del strenght en vez de agility que dan las armas, sin embargo no funciona y aquí va la explicación que recogí de http://www.skeletonjack.com/:

DW Tanking vs 2H Tanking

Look, DW Tanking just is not a viable tool.  You *will* take more damage than a 2H tank.  I don’t care what drivel you have to say on the matter, or what tankspot link you find.  DW causes more parries, which causes Boss Parry Haste, which means you take more damage.  End of Story.  Sorry.

On top of that, your Rune Strikes will do less damage (coming from a 1H and not a 2H) which means you will be doing less TPS as well.  I know it sounds cool, but DW tanking on a boss that gets parry haste is not viable.  Could you do it and make it work?  Probably.  But the 2H tank will do more TPS and take less damage in an equal setting.

But there are no Crushing Blows, etc…

/SIGH  Really?  I mean you’re like a fricking pit bull snagged on a friggin’ bone!

The way parry haste mechanics work, boss white attacks get pro rated haste to speed up attacks to make up for the animations used to parry an attack.  This means that additonal hits after that pro rated attack are still firing off normally.  The end result is that you can have a boss fire off 2 normal attacks and a special attack all in under 1 second due to parry haste mechanics.

This is further accentuated by DW’ers because there are so many more parries that the oddball occurance of multiple attacks within a short span of time increases significantly.  I’ve seen logs where 2H tanks took 3-4 hits in under 2 seconds.  With DW the chance of it happening only gets worse.

Sure you won’t take successive crushing blows anymore.  But if you get hit for 8k damage 4 times when you already under 100% health in under 2 seconds, you jut might die.  Go figure…

En resumen, DW significa más bloqueos de ataques que tiene como consecuencia la activación del parry haste en el boss, o sea la velocidad de ataque del boss se incrementa notablemente recibiendo el tanque muchos más ataques por unidad de tiempo que antes.

De paso comento que http://www.skeletonjack.com/ es una excelente página de información para DKs.

Nos vemos.

Adjunto link a una página que contiene muy buena información para todos aquellos que tienen o desean tener un DK (builds, stats, rotaciones, macros, etc.):

http://deathknightbuilds.com/

Voy a buscar recursos similares para otras clases para ir incluyendo en esta serie de posts.

Saludos.