The PvE DPS build?Follow

I've been out of WoW for a few months. When I left my DK was at 72 or 73. I plan on getting him to 80 asap.

However I don't remember my spec, as I toyed with all 3 before I left.

What is the DPs build most are using? I think I was Blood but I don't remember.

I play on PvE server, and when I was playing him I was trying to run as many instance as I could (for gear, and because I didn't do any on my Hunter).
I just need a good solid DPS build and maybe a rotation.

Thanks ^-^

I changed from unholy to blood with 3.2 and while my trash dps may be a bit lower (but not much) my boss dps is quite a bit higher which is what matters.

It depends on your gear and where you get it from. If you've got naxx gear, you really don't have any armor pen, and unholy is probably going to be your best bet, blood close behind. If you're in ulduar gear, you can stack arp (I got 51% passive and 100% on proc when I was fully stacked) and so blood has a big advantage. However, when you get to toc, stuff really doesn't have much arp anymore, and therefore unholy becomes a bit better.

Personally I'm unholy/obliterate, which means I'm unholy and can do fine with lower arp, but I can still take advantage of any arp I come across.

enough arp? that's like saying enough strength! There is no such thing!

It's really all a matter of personal preference. I love Blood spec because it suits my playstyle more. I just can't seem to get into playing an Unholy spec. As for which is better, I think Blood outperforms Unholy in the end.

Sorry I should've been clearer. I meant 'enough' as in you'll have enough ArP so that Blood will certainly be a viable alternative to Unholy even in similar gear.

So I went Blood, using that spec linked below my OP.

It seems slow. I do a rotation, and then am stuck waiting on cool downs. I remember, or maybe it was just in my hear, killing was much faster? Or so it seems.

Might have to give unholy another try and see how it feels to me.

Thanks for info peeps ^-^

I'm in mostly PvP gear for my Death Knight, landing me a whoppin' 92 Hit Rating, bleh.

Anyway, pre-patch with the Unholy cookie cutter build (which was supposedly imba for beginner PvE DPS) I went and did a Violet Hold heroic. I don't remember having ever blushed in front of the computer, but at 1400 DPS, I sure did then.

With my new Blood build (and close to zero ArPen), I did 1900 DPS in ToC (5-man) and was top DPS of everyone in the group. Not that it means anything, because bottom DPS (healer not included) was another Death Knight who hit a solid 600 DPS.

I giggled.

Hoping to get a few more ToC runs in tonight for some sweet ArPen gear, then begin working on my tanking set.

That was basically him unleashing everything on everything. Complete chaos.

He was also the first Unholy Death Knight I've met without the Raise Dead glyph - and he forgot to restock reagents before the fight. I won't even mention the fight against Paltress where he continued to fight her after she summoned the add, or his first two deaths which were caused by him not mounting up during the first jousting. I wrote a quick walkthrough of the jousting in the party chat and after he died a second time, I told him to check party chat. He told me to chill, because it was his first time and then he proceeded to get himself killed by failing to mount again. So I told him, regardless of it was his first time or not, he should freakin' read the goddam party chat because he was showing fail skills of epic proportions.

Yes, interesting PUG run. I'll save the full story for the weekly Horribad PUG Stories thread in the Druid forum, though.

Edit: I ran a heroic TotC with a group where I was the only one who had ever done TotC before. After we had wiped 5-6 times on the jousting part because no one was focusing on the same target, we finally got them down and prepared to fight the three champions. We buffed up and the Warrior engaged the mobs. He apparently had no clue about AOE tanking, because he didn't grab aggro from the troll guy (the Hunter) and I was killed within ten seconds of fighting. Damn, I love PUGs.

Edited, Sep 5th 2009 10:41am by Mazra

600? I think I could do more than that autoattack afking.... I did more dps than that at level 70

wow...600dps is sad. I think I pull almost 1k with just auto-attacks haha. Also to the OP, which presence are you using? If you are using Unholy Presence to dps, then yeah, you will have a lot of time between rune cooldowns where you will be just auto-attacking. Blood takes a little time to build up speed in it's dps because it relies somewhat heavily on death runes. If I'm starting a fight fresh (no death runes or runic power) I have to wait a few seconds after the first half of my rotation before I gain momentum, after that first half of a rotation though, I usually only have ~2-3s tops of rune cooldown and that's usually filled with death coils or hysteria+drw.