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Blizzard designed the Death Knight as a class for which you could combine talents from all three trees to tank. As WotLK progressed, however, it more and more turned out that the Frost tree (Dual-wielding and Mitigation) was the tanking tree to go for.

One single talent never makes a tank, it requires a combination of talents to get there.

Talents like Toughness, Improved Frost Presence and Unbreakable Armor help mitigate damage, while the various cold-based and dual-wielding talents improve your threat. From the Blood tree, Blade Barrrier is a good talent to take, and you may look into some of the others for Threat or health regain.

The Unholy tree features Anticipation, which increases your Dodge, and Morbidity, which increases various effects of Death Coil. If you go down this road, you may want to take the Lichborne talent from Frost, as you can then use Lichborne to become temporarily undead, and heal yourself with a Death Coil if needed.

In most cases, high-end tanks nowadays are Frost/Unholy, but once the next expansion comes, Blood will be designated permanently as the tanking tree for Death Knights.

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