I know many of you are scratching your head right now thinking, “Rune Strike? Isn’t that for tanking?” Well, you can wipe the dead skin cells off your keyboard because I’m about to show you how Rune Strike can be beneficial to a Blood/Unholy Death Knight in PVP. Keep in mind that Frost will never want to use Rune Strike, as your RP is best served cold with a Frost Strike.

I haven’t used Rune Strike since I was leveling, What does it do again???
Well you aren’t alone since not …

Ghostcrawler posted yesterday that Death Strike received a recent “hot fix” that lowered it’s healing ability yet again. I’m really not that much worried about it because honestly who used it anyway?

There is a new, or recently found, Death Grip bug that when used dueling on a particular boat in Booty Bay will send the character on a very long ride.

There was a blue post today updating the 3.0.8 patch notes and I’ll make another post here in a few minutes outlining that notes. But, I felt the need to have the death (no pun intended) of THE premier tanking Glyph have it’s own post.
Glyph of Death and Decay is THE single best tanking Glyph. Sure it is mainly used for trash pulls/heroics but being able to pull large packs and have some of that damage mitigated from the cower was just huge. Not anymore. As of the most recently released …

We all knew Runestrike was going to get nerfed…right? No need to blame Rogues either.

Ghostcrawler
I’ll try this once again. I used “rogue killer” as shorthand, but so many players have such blind hatred for rogues that they only noticed those couple of words and missed the actual intent of the change.

We made Rune Strike a tanking tool. Really. We even made the decision in my office, and I think it was just after dinner one night. DK threat turned out to be a lot lower than we expected, largely because …