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Beg to differ, in frost spec Dual wield owns, especially for tanking (nearly the only thing u can do as a frosty :) ),
Well, if you're dual wielding as frost, no wonder you think the only thing you can do with it is tank. DW is terrible for tanking too actually, since you end up taking more damage due to parry-hasting.
Frost however has incredible burst potential when used with a 2hander.
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In answer to the original post. I am Blood(closing in on 70) with some points in Frost up to annihalation(changed from Unholy) and I love it. The deal was, unholy was great for AoE, but leveling up, i was generaly flying through quests and found the most mobs I was AoE'ing was around 4 or so. I switched to Blood, and I can still AoE those same 4 or so mobs so I didn't see much difference in that area. The problem I had in unholy were the final quest chain bosses, they were tough as my ghoul only lasted so long tanking. With Blood, I am consistently slicing through elites 3 levels above me, no problems yet. So to answer your question, I see no decrease in my killing speed. AoE is very similar to a certain point(as mob #'s go up, unholy gets better).
As Unholy, the first elite I could not solo was in Dragonblight. Before that, I solo'd everything. I was actually surprised 'Woah... elites are actually elites now!'.
While you can AE grind as Blood, you're missing out on Outbreak, Wandering Plague and Unholy Blight, which all put together make for a ton of AE damage. I can easily pull 6 to 7 mobs with no downtime... well, not easily, because there's rarely 6-7 mobs within range, the problem for my DK isn't AEoing, it's mob density being too low.
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Multi target = Icy Touch > Plague Strike > Pestilence > Blood Boil > Unholy Blight > switch to next kill target and repeat. (Throw in a Death Coil from time to time after UB for RP dump)
You're missing a strike to have enough RP for UB here, it should be:
Multi target = Icy Touch > Plague Strike > Pestilence > Blood Boil > Death/Scourge Strike > Unholy Blight
I've also tanked every Northrend instance I've encountered so far as Unholy (Nexus, Utgarde Keep, Azjol-Nerub, Ahn'karet & violet hold).
Edited, Nov 24th 2008 9:49am by Tyrandor