[Epic] Death Knight Frost DPS Guide!

[whatever87]

You really shouldn't mark your own posts as "Epic". =\

[ggshaman]

Ok, so with your way the enemy maybe takes up to 150-300 extra damage. Now let's take a look on IT. It has a RANGE, which means it is casted BEFORE reaching melee. This means you can deal IT normal damage, + one tick of the dot, which is pretty much the same amount of damage.
Anyway, you think your whole dps gonna get f***d because you lose some damage from the first ability you do in the whole fight? Usually the boss/mob has a disease on him anyway.

Step one: Tank pulls.
Step two: Death Knight #1 casts IT with his Icy Reach talent, the boss is now diseased.
Step three: Instead of now casting your own IT from range, getting another tick WITH the increased damage form Glacier Rot, you WAIT untill you are in melee range before you cast your PS, then you do IT, losing your one tick of DoT.

Well the only thing i can recommend for you is to Un install wow, you clearly have very little knowledge of game mechanics, you may continue your face roll play style but you will never be good, sorry.

and Ya Int should give spell crit but it dose not

[1 33 m n]

Great guide - my dual spec tank went unholy and I'm really not quite friendly with the moves and all. Like I'm playing a different class (unlike when I respec with my other chars)
Suggestion: Glyph of howling blast lets you put a frost fever on all the targets it hits, seems pretty helpful to me as long as the tank's got good aggro
Gonna swap to Frosty DPS back now! w00t!
+rep almost forgot

[ggshaman]

Great guide - my dual spec tank went unholy and I'm really not quite friendly with the moves and all. Like I'm playing a different class (unlike when I respec with my other chars)
Suggestion: Glyph of howling blast lets you put a frost fever on all the targets it hits, seems pretty helpful to me as long as the tank's got good aggro
Gonna swap to Frosty DPS back now! w00t!
+rep almost forgot

Really?.....

[ChildeRoland]

You see GG? It's only you that flames......

Whatever87, I can take away the [epic] tag, but it is a phat wall of text, I laid a lot of work in it, and it is acctually only ggshaman that have complained on it...

Unrest, a death knights spells is not affected by int. Their spells are affected by attack power, and their critical chance is not increased from int, so int is acctually a really useless stat, as well as SP, cuz it don't do anything.

[reveng_]

DnD Glyph? Are you serious? You want to inflate your AoE trash damage that much? There's way better glyphs then that for a 3rd Major, ie. HB or IT. Triple OB 2nd Rotation only works if there's another DK re-applying Frost Fever debuff in their second rotation or there's an Unholy DK. If there isn't, your Frost Strikes are gonna hit for crap.

[ggshaman]

See you really are that bad, i have a strong feeling 1 33 m n was being extremely sarcastic

[schappi]

Reveng, the DnD glyph increases dps by 1500 if you deal 500/tick with only 3 mobs.

[Hatinax]

Intellect doesn't improve Death Knights.

And DW aint no use in 3.1 the only thing it does is to decrease your damage. The only Dw is one of the cookiecutter but not even that one is really good.

DW will become more viable in the next major patch for you who want to do that.

And for most possible dps then it's either deep blood or deep unholy that is viable.

[Rood]

Question: What was the highest Dps achieved by a Dk and what spec was he and gear and all the fun little stuff?

[Rood]

EDIT: post posted twice sorry.

[sid1488]

seem pretty good i guess... tough i play deep unholy and will never respecc .^^ i lova ma ghoul!

[reveng_]

Reveng, the DnD glyph increases dps by 1500 if you deal 500/tick with only 3 mobs.

Highest rank DnD Does 62 base damage. Factoring in 4500AP and the glyph, the formula would be:

1.2(62+(4500x0.0475)) = 330 per tick. We're talking a 17/51/3 spec so no Morbidity to further increase damage. So that's a total of 3,300 damage over 10 seconds to one mob. 9,900 over three mobs. With the use of 1 Blood, 1 Frost, 1 Unholy rune. On a 3 mob AoE, I'd do more collectively with a Howling Blast + Bloodboil. Please take some time to back up your statements before hand.

[dinzorama]

pretty okay guide..

[thevlaka]

thanks for this
Been wanting to try out Frost spec for a while, specifically a dps build!

I'll give it a go, see how it compares to unholy anyways. I noticed in your rotation that you mention runic sword...how is that possible lol

anyways, thanks again