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#1 Jan 22 2010 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
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So I'm somewhat new to DK's and melee, having played my hunter primarily since just before BC came out.
My Dk has now about 19 hours played, and I would like to see some dps improvements. My current dps build is a 50/21 "unholy blight" spec, which I think used to be okay, but it seems the latest stuff on EJ is 51/20. However, reading EJ tends to make my head hurt, whereas good old 'zam is easier on my eyes.
My current toon/build is here http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Skywall&cn=Missarthas&group=2

I need to change out that rune strike glyph I just noticed, no idea how that got there!

My standard rotation is icy touch (as I'm running up to tank/target), plague strike, heart strikes till my runic power is near full, dump it with 2 death coils, and repeat. Mix in blood taps when I remember, death strikes if I need some hp back, and if everything else is on a cool down, toss in an obliterate ( which apparently I should not use as blood?).
I'm away from home right now, so kinda going on (bad) memory with my recollection of buttons and names.
In trash packs I'll use pestilence and blood boil after my 2 main diseases are applied.
I seem to average around 2500 dps, with a high of around 3500 I think (can't remember what fight that was offhand).

Are there any major obvious changes/flaws in style, and gear, that can be made?
I'm 4 frost tokens shy of 95 for a new t10 piece as well.
#2 Jan 22 2010 at 11:36 PM Rating: Good
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My Dk has now about 19 hours played, and I would like to see some dps improvements. My current dps build is a 50/21 "unholy blight" spec, which I think used to be okay, but it seems the latest stuff on EJ is 51/20. However, reading EJ tends to make my head hurt, whereas good old 'zam is easier on my eyes.

Just grab Dancing Rune Weapon. Suffice to say it's better than Unholy Blight in most of the cases. Unholy Blight is the Death Knights' "Combat daggers" - in theory, it's better, in reality, it isn't. Don't give it too much thought.

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My standard rotation is icy touch (as I'm running up to tank/target), plague strike, heart strikes till my runic power is near full, dump it with 2 death coils, and repeat. Mix in blood taps when I remember, death strikes if I need some hp back, and if everything else is on a cool down, toss in an obliterate ( which apparently I should not use as blood?).

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Are there any major obvious changes/flaws in style, and gear, that can be made?

Yes, very much yes. You never use Obliterate if you don't have Annihilation, ever. That said, you shouldn't be using it if you aren't frost either. There's a reason the Blood cookie cutter has imp DS in it's spec. You use that, whenever possible, as your F/U move. Your 'rotation/priority' should be: Keep diseases up > Get off as many HS's as possible > DS if you have a frost & unholy rune up that aren't death runes > RP dump in the form of Death Coil. Sometimes you'll want to forego the RP dump completely to set up for a DRW during bloodlust and Hysteria that allows you to get in as much HS's as possible.

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In trash packs I'll use pestilence and blood boil after my 2 main diseases are applied.

Trash doesn't matter as much, but the basic rule would be targets<=3 --> HS, targets>=3 --> BB. If your tank can take it, you might even want to look into using D&D as (once your diseases are up and spread) it should deal more damage than 3 Blood Boils.

In regards to your DPS - you're making it easy for me as you're in pretty much exactly the same PvE gear I am in. You should be able to pull off 3700 DPS single target, possibly 3900 or 4000. I doubt you'll get any higher than that, though. 3700 is what I got with more or less your stats (10% more armor pen but ~5% less hit and also, a better sigil) during a pretty much optimal try on Saurfang (which is 95% tank&spank for melee DPS) where I didn't get to use my ghoul, used DRW 3 and Hysteria 2 times, and sometimes had to interrupt my rotation due to adds spawning near the boss (I couldn't use HS when that happened so I had to shuffle and use DS a bit).
#3 Jan 23 2010 at 1:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Thanks Moz, I'll respec when I get back home and give it a whirl.
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