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New Spell Animations for Death & Decay and Desecration
DeathKnight.info — ... was. There is no denying what a nice graphic the old one was, but it really became too much chaos to make it worth it. Death and Decay is in the same boat; it looks nice, but in the end it was just too much business. Below is a video and some SS’s showing the new animation. It sucks that the old ones didn’t work, but I think the replacements will do just fine. ...

WotLK Beta - Tanking Issue with some Death Knights?
Ardent Defender — ... But in CoT - Stratholome I kept having it this one instance as well as I did notice it in Utgarde Pinnacle with another Death Knight in party. I kept running low on mana with BoS up. Now the only thing I can figure so far is some Death Knights using Death and Decay often as AE without regard to how the current Tank (Paladin) in the group Tanking mechanics work. Thus causing Threat over the Tank threat and reducing the mobs hitting the Tank (Paladin) who does need the reactive threat and for BoS to proc for mana. ...

Blizzard leaning toward AE Tanking for all
WoW.com — ... may recall earlier yesterday that we reported on Thunder Clap losing its target limit, thus quite suddenly making Warriors have a very good chance of being viable AE tanks. One thing that you might have also noticed is that the Druid's Swipe is getting the same treatment (no word on whether it will also be getting the ability to go 360 degrees, but it seems likely, if it's going to be a Thunder Clap/Consecrate equivalent). In addition, Death and Decay, the Death Knight's AE mainstay, recently received a bump to threat gain. That means ...

Deathknight Death Knight threat values
TankSpot — ... 0 Bloodworms _________________________  0 The DK gains no threat from BW's damage or healing.  See ** below. Butchery RP gains on kills _________  500 per RP, unaffected by presence Chains of Ice ______________________  226 Chilblains (all ranks) _____________  2 Chill of the Grave RP gains ________  500 per RP, unaffected by presence Corpse Explosion ___________________  damage Death and Decay ____________________  damage × 1.90 Deathchill ...

Deathknight DK Attack Power coefficients
TankSpot — ... Blood Boil _________  0.04 Blood Plague _______  0.055 Bloodworms _________  0.006 * Corpse Explosion ___  0.0475 ** Death and Decay ____  0.0475 Death Coil _________  0.15 Frost Fever ________  0.055 Howling Blast ______  0.1 Summon Gargoyle ____  0.42 (Gargoyle Strike) *** Icy Touch __________  0.1 Pestilence _________  0.04 Strangulate ________  0.06 Unholy ...