[Class Guide] Blood Death Knight. High DPS Raiding

[bloodshed794]

Hello, as you know i'm Bloodshed794, and wanted to show you all a nice Raiding DPS guide and to learn and grasp the Death Knight Class. I have been playing a death knight at 80 15 days after WOLTK arrived. There is 3parts to this

1. Talent Tree

2. Rotation

3. Gems and Chants
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1. Talent Tree
To be a sucessful raiding Death Knight, you need a powerful Talent Tree. I have a link: Wow Talent Calculator . This tree is spec'd into Death Strikes, and Death Coils. Which means you want to use them! In raids, you want to use Flask of Endless Rage. It is the best Flask for DK DPS. You should probaly carry 3 or 4 with you to the raid, as they last an hour each.

2. Rotation

The Rotation as follows

Plague Strike - Icy Touch - Heart Strike - Heart Strike - Death Strike - Death Coil Dump

then

Plague Strike - Icy Touch - Heart Strike Dump - Death Coil Dump

then repeat the first and second part.


This spec has got me 8k Solid in 25 man Content, with no boss buffs. My gear scroe is 5034 with the Gear Score Addon, and 2500ish with WoW Heores. The key to this roation is Burst DPS. With the talent tree, your spec'd into Death and Decay to make time less on the cooldown. Which means, before a boss fight, spam Death and Decay, and Horn of Winter, to get your runic power up to use Dancing Rune Weapon right off the bat. So when you use Hysteria, Dancing Rune Weapon, and Raise Ghoul, that is SUPER burst DPS you output on a mob.
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3. The key to gemming and chanting ... I see enchants as the stuff you need. Etc, Hit, Expertise . . . And I see gems as stacking +20 STR, and 1 +20 Crit Gem. I will list the caps of stuff, if there is something not there, that means there is no cap ( or you don't need one )

Hit . . . . . 8%
Expertise . 24

Hit and Expertise can come off of Enchants, which they should, not gems, because +20 STR gems are more needed for those gems slots.






I hope I helped, If you guys need anything, questions, concerns, Post them, I will answer them ASAP. Thanks!

[smusen]

this isnt a good guide.. sorry to say

[bloodshed794]

Uhm? Way to flame it right off the bat. What if your someone who leveld a death knight and want to start raiding? Stop being a dick and posting to post and flame.

[smusen]

Uhm? Way to flame it right off the bat. What if your someone who leveld a death knight and want to start raiding? Stop being a dick and posting to post and flame.

Well... the guide need alot if you wanna learn people to raid with a dk. You dont tell anything about pest? flaks & foodbuffs with more.

[bloodshed794]

Tried to do the best I can, idk. ever say thanks for contributing? haha ... but this is more for single target, so pest will be worthless. I will edit and say something about flasks.

[~Jagris]

The rotation isn't that good TBH. Also it isn't much of a guide. I don't mean to flame, it's just constructive criticism. Also 90% of the time you forget to use DRW so I put that one in a different talent, but thats just me.

[bloodshed794]

This rotation is the best that i have used, and a lot of people call me an idiot, but if you try it, it is actually really good, I pull about 8k in Raids with it (not burst) and yes, DRW is a plus if you remember to use it.

[Multitask]

Uhm? Way to flame it right off the bat. What if your someone who leveld a death knight and want to start raiding? Stop being a dick and posting to post and flame.

then your guide dosnt help them one bit to be honest. dosnt tell them gear, where to get gear, raid synergy, or boss fight strats.

EDIT:

also, you dont talk about glyphs which are pretty important and your rotation is incorrect

IT-PS-HS-HS-DS -DUMP- DS-HS-HS-HS-HS -Dump-

EDIT2:

Expertise . 24

25 actually

Hit and Expertise can come off of Enchants, which they should, not gems, because +20 STR gems are more needed for those gems slots.

i havent seen anyone enchant for those. those stats come from gear.

[bloodshed794]

expertise for bracers ... hit for gloves, boots ...... cap is 24 ...... and i likez my rotation! =P

[Multitask]

expertise for bracers ... hit for gloves, boots ...... cap is 24 ...... and i likez my rotation! =P

please read a guide on elitist jerks before posting next time. and the cap is 25

[~Jagris]

He does have glyphs in the talen thing blink, and I use that rotation blink, it works really nice.

[thelittleguy1300]

This is probably the worst guide I've seen in my whole life..... The rotation was created by a two year old. What the hell is the point of refreshing your already running diseases (~11 seconds left)? In addition expertise cap is 26 , of which you also failed to mention to bads that veteran of the third war gives you 6 expertise already. Your "Guide" on enchants/gems is terrible. No spec/rotation/ANYTHING has had expertise as a higher EP value then strength , since WTLK launched. Gemming strength or (strength/crit only after t9 4pc) has always been superior in 100% of all dk situations (disregard pvp spellpen gemming). In addition you mention crit gemming, blood has only and only ever used strength gems with the exception of people who wanted to gem armorpen. Your DRW guide is TERRIBLE, because it takes your current buffs or atkpwr/stats/haste. Rather instead you advise DRW'ing before your trinkets or hysteria come up?!? Not to mention running Glyph of Disease has a higher yield of dps since you no longer use SOVH. You can attempt to discredit me but I play a dk in a rank 22nd world guild and I place top 20 WMO parses every week.

[Multitask]

didnt talk about arP either

[Beaver1337]

This is probably the worst guide I've seen in my whole life..... The rotation was created by a two year old. What the hell is the point of refreshing your already running diseases (~11 seconds left)? In addition expertise cap is 26 , of which you also failed to mention to bads that veteran of the third war gives you 6 expertise already. Your "Guide" on enchants/gems is terrible. No spec/rotation/ANYTHING has had expertise as a higher EP value then strength , since WTLK launched. Gemming strength or (strength/crit only after t9 4pc) has always been superior in 100% of all dk situations (disregard pvp spellpen gemming). In addition you mention crit gemming, blood has only and only ever used strength gems with the exception of people who wanted to gem armorpen. Your DRW guide is TERRIBLE, because it takes your current buffs or atkpwr/stats/haste. Rather instead you advise DRW'ing before your trinkets or hysteria come up?!? Not to mention running Glyph of Disease has a higher yield of dps since you no longer use SOVH. You can attempt to discredit me but I play a dk in a rank 22nd world guild and I place top 20 parses every week.

Do you smell that... hard criticism. IT BURNS! :confused:

[thelittleguy1300]

The only thing that he needs to mention about Arp is itemizing for it. Which should be represented as "common sense" for a physical based spec.
"I will edit and say something about flasks." - Please don't.... This is more commmon sense