DK tanking

[inferis]

wondering if teq is a tank or dps (at work and cant look up armory). if so, how is it tanking as a DK and or healing a DK tank.

[Aus]

Reedu is our DK tank, and as a healer, right now it's pretty terrifying, but that's simply due to the massive gear disadvantage vs our other tanks. When we had DK tanks on beta that were well-geared, it was actually quite easy to heal them.

[Champ]

Reedu is our DK tank, and as a healer, right now it's pretty fucking terrifying

fixed

[inferis]

i have only managed to tank Uk as im only 71 and noticed that i was taking way too much dmg. at what point can i expect to even out with other NON t6 tanks from before? should i even try to tank untill 80? i spec'd frost for tanking, and actually prefer it over unholy for questing so i will be frost either way, but i would love to learn how to tank BEFORE i get 80.

[Reedu]

DKs should be perfectly fine for tanking heroics and offtanking 10/25 mans. Any difference between you and other tank classes is probably gear. I noticed there weren't many tanking quest drops until the level 77ish range.

According to blizzard we should be fine for main tanking 10/25 mans with equivalent gear, but that remains to be seen. I'm suspicious that we're still too cooldown dependent to be good main tanks.

[inferis]

what is my stat priority? i am new to DK of course, but am also new to tanking.
thanks reedu

[Reedu]

Sunny made a great post about this on the beta forums, here it is:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 3&sid=2000