DK spec

[fhatee]

So i'm running a 53/0/18 spec just to try it out with a no-disease rotation. Even with my crappy pre-raid gear I'm getting some decent numbers. It's nowhere near the damage of my previous unholy spec, but that might just be because I've only done 5mans with it. I'm curious to how it performs in raid setting on bosses.

[Daewen]

Do you have a link to a talent build showing where your points are allocated, like wowhead or some such?

I havn't read up on this diseaseless strategy, but I could see the situations where it's useful.

As an aside, ran HoL last night, we had a pug DK who was unholy but had 11-15 points blood, and she was distressed at her dps. She was barely getting 500-600 dps, and the rest of the group was 1100-1600. Still not sure what the issue was, except maybe she was using a single-target dps rotation, but mobs would be dead before she could get much past the 2nd disease application.. or wasn't using RP abilities.. I Dunno.

[sphie]

I think deep blood is a lot more gear dependant than Unholy. Unholy gets away with a lot of magic damage and AE that doesn't really get mitigated as much as physical attacks do.

With that said, I've heard that Blood is also a lot less generous with GCDs so it might take a while to get the hang of dumping sudden death procs and regular death coils. I'd just say more time with the spec will do you a lot of good.

[fhatee]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... =Mufhintop

Well looking back over the WWS parse from last week to this week and comparing the exact same bosses, this blood spec is not as bad as I had felt. The idea behind no-disease rotation in blood spec is that an actual attack will give you more damage over the long run than applying disease. It scales much better with decent gear. However, even though I felt sluggish at times with damage, my dps actually increased (so did most everyone) this week using this spec. I guess the absence of yellow numbers flying all over the place made me feel like i was doing less damage. The 1 place where my numbers went down (no surprise) is on trash.

During loethab, I was able to keep my group topped off with health too, that was kinda neat

I'm still unsure blood aura is worth the 2 talent points though... thoughts?

[Daewen]

I thought it was very noticable on Loatheb- normally, the further on the fight goes, everyone's health eventually starts degrading. Those 3 second windows become precious- and between Judgement of Light, Blood Aura, Rune Tap- every little bit helps. And it didn't seem nearly as bad as previous times. And not just on Loatheb, either. There's something to be said for that sort of utility, though it may come at the cost of some deepee's.

[Daewen]

Last night (this morning) I got my DK to 80! Talents are changing in 3.1 of course, but for now I'm 0/8/63: dual-wielding unholy dps-tank! I have a couple titansteel pieces to craft, and then will be really close to uncrittable, without having even run more than a couple instances ever. My armory link is going to show my dps gear though.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... n=Snowclaw