Hello. This is my first post so please be kind. Some information about the specs will be opinion based. When I first hit 80 on my Death Knight, I really didn't know anything about how I should spec, WHAT a rotation was, what stats to stack and many other things. For those of you who are also fresh 80's, this guide should help you cover those topics I didn't know anything about. F.Y.I. I will be taking a bit of information from Elitist Jerks so don't just say I'm copying and pasting without saying anything
The first thing you should know is information about the specs. We have our three trees: Blood (Which is really focused on spamming Heart Strike and Death strike in between keeping diseases up), Frost which is what I am (The dual wield tree that focuses on Physical Damage, Runic power and Obliterate), and finally Unholy (Focuses on Diseases, your ghoul and Scourge Strike.)
For each spec these are the ones you should mainly focus on. (Though I post these, these are not the only ones you can use. You should tweak them to your needs. Also, Glyphs are included in some the links.)
Blood: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
Frost: http://talent.************.com/?deat...Du1IiuD,,11685
Unholy:http://talent.************.com/?deat...PEqE,HpF,11623
Now for gear, All specs should be taking plate pieces of gear that can get them strength, and at least enough hit to meet the cap (8% hit). Once you have hit the hit cap, you can start to stack strength gems in the slots of your armor. You may want 1 Prismatic Gem to get whatever your choice of prismatic gem is. Hopefully, you will take one that only needs 1 red gem, 1 blue gem and 1 yellow gem so the prismatic will cover all of them.
For rotations, they are these (The rotations them selfs, also taken from elitist jerks) :
Blood: The GoD rotation is made up of two distinct parts. There is your Open Phase (1), and then the repeated phase (2). You begin with the (1) rotation to set up your diseases, and then repeat two until your diseases fall of some how, or the enemy dies
(1) IT-PS-HS-HS-DS -Dump- DS-HS-HS-HS-Pest -Dump-
(2) HS-HS-HS-HS-DS -Dump- DS-HS-HS-HS-Pest
Frost: The frost spec is weird because you need to work on a FCFS system which is explained in this picture.---------------------------> [IMGR][/IMGR]
Unholy:PS – IT – BS – SS – BS – DC – HoW
SS – BS – SS – BS – DC – DC– (DC)
Well, I've run out of things I can think of to cover so if I have missed something, please comment saying so. Bye :wave: