Spooncraft

Right now you see a lot of passive mitigation talents in the Frost and Unholy trees for a Death Knight, as well you see multiple AOE aggro grabbing abilities or talents that enhance these abilities that are innate to the class itself. So what about Blood?

It was the most popular death knight spec due to the self healing and amount of output possible but lately it’s fallen to the wayside by deep frost and unholy builds. Personally I only ever enter blood presence when I’m in an instance group and not tanking. Otherwise I stick to unholy presence for that oh so freaking sweet global cooldown haste. But still being a blood death knight I’d like to see some more love when I am called upon to tank.

A Blood knight can heal herself really well and Vampiric Blood lets the healers heal you a lot too.

I think when the damage among the 3 trees is more normalized, the threat will be too. It’s possible Frost or Unholy is better for mitigation, but if so, I would expect the difference to be pretty marginal over the long haul and possibly even depending on the boss. (src)