I have been meaning to write something like this for a while but due to the fact that this is more of a wishlist of what I would like to see in 5.3 and beyond so I decided to make this a blog post instead of a normal post in the Blood DK thread since it wouldn't really make sense there.

While some of these concerns might be minor if looked at individually, on the whole I think these changes will improve Blood DKs quite a bit (and it is because some of these things are minor things...

Tyvi

New patch is out. Let's look at the new stuff in detail:

Tier 1: Plague Leech, Roiling Blood, Unholy Blight Outbreak, Veteran of the Third War, Glyph of Outbreak

Glyph of Outbreak: Your Outbreak spell no longer has a cooldown, but now costs 40 Runic Power. Replaces Glyph of Blood Boil (+5 yards on BB)
Veteran of the Third War does not reduce Outbreak's CD anymore.

I have no idea what the reasoning here was because...

Tyvi

Beta time is always a good time to crash to desktop due to #132 errors post some feedback on where our class is headed. This will be a long post because I want to include every single bit I can think of that applies from everything I have seen in Cata and the current patch (which is 15589). I might do follow up posts once new patches are released and only comment on the changes so this post should work as a good baseline.

[top] The new stuff!

[top] Ability changes

Imagine Mists...

Tyvi

We got some more replies from Blizz so it's time for another Blog post. The sources for all Blue posts (and further discussion) can be found here: Why Block Capping is Bad - Forums - World of Warcraft

Read my previous Blog post for further details.

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Tyvi

The Death Knight tank is quite unique among tanks because it is the only true active mitigation tank out of all them all. Not only that, but it appears that how people receive the new Blood DK tanking model is going to be decisive for further adjustments for all the other tanks if this post is any indication:
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Tyvi