HELP MY DK SUCKSFollow

Hello , i dingeg lvl 80 with my dk only one week back and that day i joined a raid for NAXX 10, they kicked me out at Gluth cause my sucking DPS. Any tips plz?

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Turalyon&cn=Cooloseus&gn=Kentucky+Fried+Gnome


Thanks :-]

1. Caps Lock is not cruise control for cool.
2. What was your DPS when you got kicked? Need some numbers.
3. Check your gear.
4. Your talent build is just plain horrible.

Let's start from the end, shall we? Your talent build sucks. Simple math says that if your talent build sucks, you're bound to perform less than optimal.

Sudden Doom - get it.
Bloody Vengeance - get it.
Bloodworms - dump it.
Vendetta - dump it.
Anticipation - dump it.

If you want Epidemic and Ravenous Dead (+3% str), put points in Vicious Strikes and Virulence instead of Anticipation. Death Coil procs from Sudden Doom make out a pretty large chunk of your DPS, so you want to make sure they hit. And since you'll be using Plague Strike regularly to apply Blood Plague, Vicious Strikes will add some DPS there. Besides, anything else is better than +dodge for PvE DPS, right?

You need to decide if you want Butchery or Blade Barrier. You probably want Butchery for the extra runic power generation. Dump the point in Blade Barrier and get/dump the talents mentioned above. Vendetta and Bloodworms are for leveling and PvP. Bloody Vengeance will increase your DPS by 9% when fully stacked, which shouldn't be a problem with decent gear.

So, that brings us to your gear. Which is also horrible. You're wearing a mix of PvP and PvE gear and the PvE gear is split up into tanking and DPS. Your shoulders and necklace items have +defense on them. Your weapon is a level 75-ish quest reward. One of your rings has +armor on it and you have a trinket with haste. What happened to your Death Knight's Anguish from Borean Tundra? Surely crit rating is better than haste rating and a passive proc is better than a on-use attack power boost, in my opinion.

This goes well with my second point. What was your DPS at the time you got kicked? Maybe they were overreacting or maybe your DPS truly did suck. We can't tell without numbers. Was it 1k, 2k or what?

And finally, don't use all caps in your thread title. It's a sure way to get flamed.

My bad, but is it worth three points? Wouldn't Necrosis or Morbidity be better? Maybe even Black Ice if it affects diseases as well?

Have they debunked the theory that Bloodworms eat raid AoE heals though? If not, I'd still say they aren't worth it. If you're taking them because they do damage, you are taking min/maxxing to a level far beyond necessary as they do very little DPS. They aren't too bad a health-bar topoff though, provided the AoE heals thing is untrue.

While my bloodworms are up, they do ~60 dps. They aren't up all the time, and when I check the difference of merging pets and not merging pets (without DRW) I gain about 25 dps overall.

That's not much dps, but it is a dps boost.

I have Bloodworms in my current Blood build and while they are a personal DPS increase (~0.8%) and some healing, I'm unconvinced. After posting this and making a pre-raid beverage I'll be moving those points for Imp. Blood Presence and MoB. IBP to help the healers mainly and try to keep above 75% health, MoB 'cause I can't think of anything better to do with 1 point that I need. We'll see how it goes. Honestly, I'm still disappointed with the Worms. It's a neat talent that just needs to be tweaked a bit.

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