Which spec can have the max dps output?Follow

Just respecced and trying theo's build. 1g for a respec is kinda nice. Whats your take on Dancing Rune Weapon. Tried it tonight. Seems pretty cool and can deff help you out in sticky situations. Solo'd my 3rd elite tonight. Was 3 levels above my own before I dinged lol. Theo would you consider your build a standard cookie cutter build?

I've been unholy from the start, and i'm always parsing in the top 3 for damage. What most people overlook is the ghoul's output. 150-200dmg/swing is nothing to scoff at. Add that to the ability to tell the ghoul to leap to pull (with no range requirement), and gnaw, which is stun, makes it a useful pet. The DK itself, icy touch > plague strike > scourge strike to finish is incredible damage. Death strike's health return is still great too; i often get 2500 cures, with an all time high of 3210 once. (quest mob, non elite).

Plus, the group bonuses are really appreciated. 15% passive movement speed aura is great for moving your party around quicker and cutting down on travel time.

rasen, take a gander... if you see anything in blood he could take instead of imp rune tap, that would increase his dps

let me know ;)

Bloodworms suck compared to Imp Rune Tap.

With DRM running in your normal rotations, using Rune Tap instead of popping a pot (especially with the pot changes) will be great.

Yeah, except most people who have Rune Tap have the glyph for it, which heals everyone in your group as well.

The pot thing is kinda a moot point; you can really only pop one pot per boss now, so talking about potting instead of Rune Tapping isn't really feasible.

Yeah, your Unholy tree could definitely use a reworking. Epidemic is probably, point-for-point, one of the highest DPS talents in Unholy.

Anticipation isn't worth it unless you're tanking (which it doesn't look like you are, since you don't have Blade Barrier.

DRM is very worth it (combined with a Glyph of Death Strike and Epidemic/MoM, I never run out of HP). Blood Aura, IMO, is very lackluster. There are better places you can put talents. Same with Bloodworms.

In my current build (here is the end result, I'm 2 points into Blood-Caked Blade atm), I've played around with it and feel that for soloing this is a stronger build, as well as eventually for PvP. (Frost is the only thing that can hold a candle to it for PvP--IMO--just as a sidenote.)

Soloing is a different beast for DKs than DPS, TBH. Look to my FAQ if you want the be-all-end-all DPS builds. There's better for soloing, though. Especially as you should get Annihilation last in any build.

ej has frost a little ahead of unholy (not a ton, but a little)

and deathgraf does the same dealie... so im inclided to believe it to still be teh truth

blood beats em both in single target by a noticable amount though -_-

the reason i think frost feels weak is because the damage isnt as noticable, skill wise i mean (and bone shield helps a lot with downtime.... most of the unholy single-target talents are complete by level 70 (SS and ebon plague) while frost improves every level... blah blah things like that)

and less of it is auto-attack damage (blood and unholy both gettin better passive dps boosts then frost)

and since frost lives and dies on crits, thats all most people notice is the flashy 2k+ RS... then the fact killing machine is proccing tons of high-powered IT's

or rime procs = free attacks

but i can see what you mean... im levelin frost with permapet atm, and while im doin damn near the same dps (if pet is alive) it feels a lot stronger

frost aura needs a lil love imo, that spell resist isnt really much

adding +1% hit per talent point would be nice, and make it worth taking... something small.... cuz otherwise im happy with the frost tree :D but this isnt the thread for my wishlists hehe

Edited, Dec 1st 2008 10:34am by mongoosexcore