Deathknights tanking in WoTLK

[addicted]

Ok, I looked at all the forums available adn I found this fit description best. If you think it doesn't, pls move.

OK, So when WOTLK comes out I wanna lvl a deathknight and get him to 80 and tank with him, pew pew, arena stuff liek that. However I was wondering what best tanking spec and DPS spec would be. Because of the really good tanking talents high up in all trees it kind of makes it a wierd cause theres no defined "prot " tree. So Anyway, I went onto the WoW official WOTLK talent calc and got something like this
tanking spec 1

However if u don't want spell dmg mitigation I got something like this

tanking spec 2

For both these specs I went frost as main talent tree. I did this cause I believe it has more helpful talents then blood/unholy to do with talents, (more, although blood has some nice ones)

And for DPS I was considering unholy as main dps spec at first but now with only 1 default disease I would go blood unless the blood plague stacked. (non pvp dps specs)

blood DPS spec 1

or

Unholy DPS spec 1

These are my general thoughts and Ideas. Not many people at my school play wow so any feedback would be nice

[Havok]

Well, I have a DK. If you want to tank go for frost/blood something close to this:

WorldofWarcraft.com -> Info -> Classes -> Death Knight -> Talent Calculator

[wc3noob]

Frost is tanking, Unholy is DPS, and Blood is pvp

[addicted]

wc3noob, I'm not very impressed, over my summer holidays I tanked naxx and maly and sarth and vault on my DK, while tanking all of those I was unholy, frost is tanking, unholy is DPS and blood is pvp is so stereotyping its not funny, I choose to not go frost for tanking because it is all into mitigationg and avoidance, and as a tank with descent gera, I'm fine with all that. Unholy is dps, is also wrong, the current best dps spec is a hybrid frost/unholy last time I checked and blood is pvp is also wrong. when I pvp I go around 50 in unholy and 20 in blood.

[Wheeze201]

Never get a blood elf DK as tank.

They ALL suck.

[Thamelas]

My experience with DK tanks has been mixed at best. They all seem to die easier than a warrior or a pally. Then again it might just be my impression is all. Meh...

[lubo]

I tank as a blood/frost. DPS PVP as Blood/Unholy...

However, Dk's arnt the best of tanks, they are ok for heroics/naxx/satha but otherwise its best to use a druid/pally/warrior.

[Cytheria]

There isn't a class which is "the best tanking class", death knight as well with warriors, paladins and druids are the tanking classes of the game, that means that dk tanks are as good to tank ulduar, trial of crusader and icecrown citadel as the other 3 tanking classes.
The frost spec supposed to be the best talent spec for tanks but i believe that it's not just the best but and the easiest to use if you want to be a tank.
This is an example of a frost specced dk tank: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
Also all dk specs (blood, frost, unholy) they can be specced for 3 different uses, tank use, dps use and PvP use.

[albedox]

These days, you've gotta stack parry pretty hardcore to tank ICC as a DK.

[No1]

a DK with a shild in bear form would be a good tank xD

dk's can tank but palys/wars/druids are way better ..