My lvl 76 Dk committed tank has almost 21000 armor. Over 60% mitigation, 520 defense, and about 38% avoidance.

Also remember that 70 epics are about the same as 75 blues.

W=warrior D=Deathknight (t)=tank speced (s)=shield
(a)=DK aura
remember this is 70 warrior with all 70 epic vs 75 DK with all 75 blue and these values are just armor value and not natural armor (did not add cloak,neck,rings,or trinkets… just normal gear)

W =10239 D =11079
W(t) =11262 D(t) =12740
W(s) =15111 D(a) =16064
W(s+t)=16622 D(a+t)=18474

As you can see their is a descent armor upgrade, though still not enough to where the lack of block % is made up to be as viable as a tank, still probably a lot higher damage then current tank speced tanks so viable to tank certine things, but not so great to where they replace any other tanking class (IE current tanks eaiser on the healer if they get their blocks up, but new tank can help drop it faster so ends up rounding out about the same)

With that said, having 10K natural armor without frost presence and 14.5K with ain’t to bad for the probably mediocre gear comparing the fact that mediocre 70 blue gear being prot speced with a 3.2K armor shield only has 12.5 (so 9K without shield)

compairing that the gear that they have is probably a bunch of lvl 68 green quest rewards with a few blues mixed in I’d say thats pretty good… Plus the other thing that you don’t know is the spec… it might be a blood specd that tanked just in the tanking aura,

not to mention that the raw weapon DPS is nearly 60% higher then a fully epicd arms/fury warrior with a 2H also… now I know that raw damage is just if both just did auto attack with no spells but thats besides the point.

Point is your missing 2 main infos, talent tree and full gear listing, since talent tree could mean 15% more armor which would be 16.7K armor, and gear could be made up of 10 green starting zone quest rewards and just a few higher level drops that also makes a huge difference.

To many unknowns to judge armor difference of DK speced to tank and current epic geared tanks with shields…plus didn’t they say they where removing crushing blows which means it will be easier to tank since not quit as high of mitigation will be needed that used to be needed just to not get hit by crushing blows.

/endrant

Whats that you ask? Well quit simply with the quality of vids that fraps does you can see the fights but you cant read the text… The pics allow you to see what to expect for gear upgrades and what type of stats are on them…

Now I have seen some pics with the char sheet open with defenses and melee sections open, looks nice, but I would love to see a pic with the general stats open so can see STM,AGIL,INT,etc to see how it lines up with current gear not just the stats that you can’t really tell I mean dodge parry and AP (well ok AP you can tell a bit but not near as much as the raw stats that create the ending AP with it)