Leveling SpecFollow

Scent of blood is probably the worst talent in any of the three trees. It sucks, you don't need it, and your points are way better off elsewhere. Ditch blade barrier and scent of blood and get bladed armor. Other than that, the spec looks ok. I'd personally move stuff around, but there's nothing overly bad about yours except scent of blood.

What about his spec Dilbrt?

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=jfVMq0cIcf0tzAoG0xxZf

Didn't know if DrM was a must have or ImP Rt. Left off mark of blood and blood aura since its a leveling spec. Tried taking all the abilities that would increase overall dps. Maybe take 3 off Icy Talons and put on Annihilation. o.O?

Very nice. How do you have your action bar settup. DO you use both blood strike and heart strike. I just use heart since they both do the same thing. My rotation is.....IT,PS,DC,HS...I never really get to finish it. Don't know the proper settup. Still tinkering with it. I do know that DK is my main now. I knew it was going to be.

Hunter is my money maker. DK is 59 and 2 bars from 60 now. I beat a level 70 >< I about fainted but I did. I don't think this hunter had his axe skills up cause his hits i dodged like crazy. Every time my health would go back up he'd go WTF. lol I won with 12% health left. I about broke my keyboard and fell outta my chair laughing.

I don't think I'll ever go unholy. Don't like having to rely on a ghoul to really be effective unless I'm missing the whole point of unholy. Frost I'll do at level 80. Easy. But if you could help me settup an action bar and maybe combine some attacks in a macro. That would help out. But all in all I'm beginning to get the hang of DK.

I also started using Heart Strike exclusively since I got it, it's a bigger and badder version of Blood Strike with no extra cost.

I haven't really played my DK too much right now because Outlands is overcrowded with DKs, so I'm leaving him at 60 right now and I'll level him again in a week or so when the majority of people get over the "novelty" of having a new class and decide they want to go back to their old classes. My current rotation is a bit different as I specced Blood right out of the gate but I respecced to Unholy recently just to see what the hub-bub was all about. My rotation as Blood previously was:

Icy Touch -> Plague Strike -> Heart Strike -> Death Strike (if I need the health) -> Death Coil

Repeat as necessary. I never really remember I have skills like Pestilence or Blood Boil because the mobs die too fast just with the above rotation, but I figure I'd fit Blood Boil in after Heart Strike when fights last longer than like 5 seconds. The rotation will probably also change when I level up and get access to more skills, but for now that's how it is.

As for the action bar thing, I'm fiddling with that myself at the moment. Plus I'm Unholy right now so I have skills you don't and you have skills I don't so mine will look different no matter what... the thing I find about Unholy is that I have a lot more burst up front it seems, but I'm also more Rune-starved. It's neat, but I think Blood's gonna be my thing for leveling.

I am still only lvl 58, but speced Unholy for half a level to try it out.

After trying it for a while I than speced as a frost tank. In outland I got aggroed by 3 even leveled mobs, as well as 2 pets. I was able to take all 5 mobs down by myself. I will admit that I had very little life left, but I did survive.

I plan on staying as a frost tank. I am going to enjoy this new class and am in no hurry to level it.

If I am able to take down several mobs at once soloing I can not wait to try and tank instances with a healer behind me.

I will admit that when I originally posted I hadsn't played my DK passed the starting area, I was done with the starting quests but hadn't done any playing after that. Since then I have realized what I use what I don't use and what is useless (in my eyes anyway) for Blood spec.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=jfVMq0cIcf0tzAoG0xxZf

This is basically the cookie cutter raid build Blood spec. I used it as a basis because I will party as I level, but I also want to solo so I need/ want more of the healing stuff (bloodworms) than the pure DPS build of the raiding spec.

Thanks for the advice, let me know if there are other ways I can improve this build, as I'm still a DK noob. I still haven't done any leveling since the starting area as I'm trying to avoid Outland for as long as possible so i'm leveling my skinning and herbalism to 300 before I head out there.

Also, is scent of blod really that bad? I've found it very useful to me, more runic power = more DPS to me, but thats my take. would filling out bladed armor increase my DPS more? If it does I'll switch it over, I just haven't seen any math/ numbers or arguments saying one way or the other. A "that talent sucks take this one instead" statement doesn't really instill a supreme feeling of confidence like math or explanations do.

Thanks again for the help.

Edited, Nov 17th 2008 11:42am by Katchii

Out of curiosity, you have any source to back this up or is it just your personal opinion?

I found Scent of Blood proced all the time when I had it, and it gaves a very good amount of runic power over time.

It never hurts to experiment, especially since the first respec is only 1g and the second is 5g. Feel free to try with the points in Bladed Armor and see what happens. If you find that your Runic Power generation is on the low side after speccing out of Scent of Blood, go ahead and put 'em back in there. The most important thing is that it compliments your playstyle. Sure, there are those who may put in a snide comment or two and of course you'll have to keep an eye out for min/maxers, but it's a game in the end.

Don't take our words for the gospel, don't stick with a spec that doesn't work for you just because someone else says it's the best. Honestly, I'm not sure how often it procced for me back when I had it but even as Unholy I found I was barely ever RP-starved, usually just Rune-starved. That's why I feel the points will most likely be better spent in Bladed Armor.

*shrugs* To each their own though. Happy hunting!