Tank Consumables - Food, Potions, Flasks and Elixirs

Interesting post showed up a few days ago on pwnwear.com. I'm not going to re-post Gravity's masterful work but I will provide a list of the consumables form best to good.






Food

1. Fortune Cookie
2. Mushroom Sauce Mudfish
3. Blackbelly Sushi
4. Lavascale Minestrone
5. Grilled Dragon
6. Crocolisk Au Gratin

Potions

1. Earthen Potion

Flasks

1. Flask of Steelskin

Best Cataclysm Tanking Enchants

Here is a quick list of the best enchants for not only Deathknights but all tanks in Cataclysm. Organised by item slot. A great site to see how your doing on gear score and enchants is WoW-Heroes.





Head

• Arcanum of the Earthen Ring - From The Earthen Ring faction. See my Cataclysm Tank Reputation Guide for more details.

Shoulder

• Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz - From the Therazane faction. See my Cataclysm Tank Reputation Guide for more details.

Chest
You have two choices here. I am personally inclined to saying that Peerless Stats is the better of the two is you take all tanking aspects into consideration such ans survival, threat and damage. Of course if all your going for is a huge health pool then Greater Stamina would be for you.

• Enchant Chest - Peerless Stats - From enchanting or the auction house. Best in my opinion.
• Enchant Chest - Greater Stamina - From enchanting or the auction house.

Pants

• Charscale Leg Armor - From Leatherworking or the auction house

Boots
Three choices for this slot. With the new patch 4.0.6 lurking around the corner the Mastery enchant might not be the best choice for Deathknights due to the mastery nerf we are getting. Of course if your tank class relies heavily on mastery and you already have a speed boost go with the Mastery enchant. If you rely heavily on master and do not already have a speed boost I would go with the Lavawalker enchant. And if you are laking in stamina and/or need a speed boost go with the Earthen Vitality enchant.

• Enchant Boots - Mastery - From enchanting or the auction house.
• Enchant Boots - Lavawalker - From enchanting or the auction house.
• Enchant Boots - Earthen Vitality - From enchanting or the auction house. Personal best for now.
• Enchant Boots - Precision - From enchanting or the auction house.

Bracers

• Enchant Bracer - Dodge - From enchanting or the auction house.
• Enchant Bracer - Greater Expertise - From enchanting or the auction house.
• Enchant Bracer - Precision - From enchanting or the auction house.

Gloves

Two choices for this slot. Again with patch 4.0.6 and the DK mastery nerf coming I think DK and other tank the do not rely heavily on mastery or are laking in HP

Cataclysm Tank Reputation Guide

Here are my thoughts on how tanks should gain there rep in Cataclysm. I will list the reputations in the priority of what I think is most important first down to the least important. Keep in mind that this guide is for tanks only with emphasis on Deathknights.

The Earthen Ring

The Earthen Ring is at the top of my list due to the simple fact that there is no dailies for this faction and it contains the tanking head enchant. It is the most "difficult" to build rep with. The only way to gain rep is to make sure you complete the regular quests and wear your tabard while in dungeons until revered for the tank benefits from them. You can go further after getting where you need to be with the other tank factions but this will bring nothing more to you as a tank.

Enchants

Arcanum of the Earthen Ring (Revered)

Items

Friendly: Tabard of the Earthen Ring

Honored: Stone-Wrapped Greaves

Revered: None

Exalted: None

Quartermaster

Provisioner Arok - Shimmering Expanse 49.1, 42.1

Therazane

Therazane makes it in second for the tank shoulder enchants. As a raid tank