Death Knights
Runeforging
This Death Knight only profession, called Runeforging, allows you to augment your rune blade with various runes that provide bonus effects. Modifying your rune blade requires a Rune Forge; these are located in Ebon Hold and The Shadow Vault (in Icecrown). Rune forging will take the place of weapon enchants so you will have to decide between runeforging your weapon or getting an enchant. In general, the runeforges are superior to any enhcants you can get. Each specific runeforge also has restrictions to one or two handed weapons; two 1H runeforges will equal the equivalent one 2H runeforge, meaning there is no penatly for your weapon choice.
Rune of Cinderglacier should be used when you are in a damage dealing role, that is when your spec is either Frost or Unholy.
In order to get full use of this you will have to be fighting undead mobs, otherwise the other options are clearly superior.
If you are Frost spec then you will have a damage dealing role and you might want to consider using this. Frost is already the spec with the greatest single hits and if you like to see large numbers pop up on your screen this is the best choice - but only for Frost Death Knights.
These two options will further compliment your role as a tank for bosses that do a lot of magic damage. What is important to remember is that if the boss only does a few magical attacks and the majority of his attacks are physical, this becomes a less attractive option. Save this one for bosses that use only magical attacks.
These Runeforges look good at first glance. Their downfall though is the diminished value of parry at higher levels; the more you have of it, the less valuable each new point in it becomes.
This option can be taken up by any damage dealing spec. It will be your first choice for for your runeforging as it is considerably better than the other options.
Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle
If you are tanking then this will be the Runeforge that you go for. A straight up percentage increase in your stamina is too good to pass up; add to that the armor bonus and you have the clear winner for tanking.
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