The Enigma Order

Its important to mention that DK threat is only an issue when the DPS is 4k+(end-game, good players, high dps).
Druids and paladins push out aprox 6-10k TPS(pala threat will get nerfed/fixed next patch). A DK will at peak times push 5k TPS.

DK's single-target threat is to my experience abit low aswell, however, our AOE abilities is very viable. First off there is supposedly a bug that you all should know about:

Frost Presence threat hotfixed
We are looking into this issue and found one bug that we are hotfixing. I will attempt to explain:

Most auras go away when you die, but some don't. Frost Presence and Defensive Stance have some effects that go away and some that do not (this is the bug). It ends up that a DK who dies loses some of the threat bonus from Frost Presence, but doesn't get it back when he comes back to life because the game thinks Frost Presence is still active and doesn't attempt to reapply the buff. If you change presence from Frost to something else and back, then all the buffs get reapplied correctly, but most tanks probably aren't doing that.

So it's entirely possible that if you die and come back without changing presences that you have just gimped your threat generation. You aren't losing all your bonus threat generation. You are basically losing the amount that we gave all tanks to compensate for pulling Blessing of Salvation out of the game.

If all of that confuses you, the take home message is we fixed a bug where your threat would be low after dying. Again, by the time you read this, the bug should have been hotfixed.

It is likely this bug was also affecting warriors in Defensive Stance and the hotfix will catch that too. It was not affecting paladins or druids because their spells work differently.

We don't know if this is the entire issue with DK (and possibly warrior) threat being low, but it should help, especially if you ever die while raiding. Some of the guilds who are seeing this problem have very high dps, which implies they have experienced the content a lot and might not be dying that much. (Source)

We'll see what they will do if this is not enough, which I dont think it is ;P

Last edited by denatus (2009-01-15 18:52:50)