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Nawkagar
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 Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: [Death Knight] DPS Guide |
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Basic Blood Spec: 51/13/7
Blood dps uses an alternating rotation. Rotation 1 gives you death runes which will then be used for more heart strikes.
Rotation 1: IT > PS > Heart Strike(HS) x2 > oblit > RP dump
Rotation 2: Oblit > HSx4 > RP dump
As blood, your RP dump is almost always death coil. Also, when sudden doom procs, be sure to cast that death coil. With the number of Heart strikes used, there is a good chance to get back to back procs. Due to sudden doom, you'll have to be adaptive. Refresh diseases as needed and don't try to stick too tightly to the base rotation.
For Aoe, you can use a similar set of rotations adjusted for aoe.
Rotation 1: IT > PS > Pest > D&D > RP dump
Rotation 2: IT > PS > Blood boil x4 > RP dump
Since HS has a cleave attached, blood boil can be replaced with HS if desired.
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Nawkagar
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Basic Unholy Spec: 17/0/54
Desecration is passed up. The 5% damage boost is impossible to sustain 100% uptime without taking a hit on overall damage output. Even more so thanks to glyph of scourge strike. This build also takes advantage of death runes to create an alternating rotations. When possible lead off with PS to get the rage of rivendare damage boost. However, often its just easier to just pull with IT and sacrifice the small damage boost.
Rotation 1: PS > IT > BSx2 > Scourge Strike (ScS) > RP dump
Rotation 2: ScS x3 > RP dump
Thanks to glyph of scourge strike, its will often be possible to replace PS/IT with another scourge strike.
For aoe, PS > IT > Pest > D&D > Unholy blight. Put UB up ahead of time if possible. |
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Kiga
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Does Unholy spec spell / pet dps outweigh the melee dps from Blood spec in most situations? |
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Nawkagar
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| Kiga wrote: | | Does Unholy spec spell / pet dps outweigh the melee dps from Blood spec in most situations? |
From previous experience in 25man naxx, they are comparable. The new night of the dead talent adding 70% aoe avoidance to your pet will help a lot. Keeping the ghoul alive was very difficult. The new glyph of raise dead removing the reagent cost makes it trivial to resummon.
Currently, Oblit is supposedly bugged and not giving any RP, so Unholy is definitely going to be ahead in that case. Typically, they should be comparable. Unholy's scourge strike spamming rotation is also a lot easier to play. The nerf to gargyole brings it inline with dancing rune weapon.
There are certainly other viable specs that actually have been shown to put out higher damage. The 0/32/39 dual wield build is very popular lately. There is also talk of a 2hander blood and deep frost build being viable with the changes to killing machine. |
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Nawkagar
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DK Best in Slot: Naxx Level List
Really solid listing of best in slot gear for DK dps. Broken down by spec giving the top 10 items for each slot. Even breaks the list down further based on if you are already hit and/or expertise capped. Pretty slick. Rather interesting to see that certain mail and leather items can be even better than some plate gear.
Only down side is it looks like the 25man and 10man loot is grouped together. |
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