[Death Knight] Unholy 3.3 dps Guide.

[jpoplive]

If you want a good unholy build you can look at my build: Kori

[cyberkill004]

oh guys cmon... you could go over to elitistjerks and read exactly the same stuff but with more indeepth info.
this just is a bad try to get some rep. seriously

I hate the EJ forums as they are a pain in the ass to navigate...I just dual spec'd my DK with blood/unholy to try to boost my dps while learning the unholy side. This guide is simple enough to understand without all the EJ crap for filler. THANK YOU...there that was easier than flaming him

[krayz]

Blood is better for single target. No one does dps meters for trash because mage always beats everyone.

Good Unholy DK's will blow a mage out of the water on trash without even trying.

[torquxx]

Thanks for this great guide

[anouxa]

Dk's probably now are vastly superior to most classes, save rogues, in aoe trash. Unholy dk's are also better then blood in single target now because they made arp scale with a lot of unholy skills. Last patch/raid release blood was the dominant, and a lot of people are still stubborn and hold to that because they don't like change, and also for meta gems, the agil /3% increased crit damage is the meta to go. Here's the breakdown of gemming. You want the Relentless Earthsiege Diamond. scaled with kings it gives you more crit then the raw 23 crit/ increased crit damage meta. Then for gemming you want to stack pure Bold Cardinal Rubies, save one nightmare tear counts for 1 yellow and 1 blue as well. This is used in the best socket bonus thats non red, usually helms because they give you + 8 strength. This being pre t10, I'm going to say that t10 has a red socket so you can pop a bold cardinal ruby into that instead of using a cardinal ruby because that completes the socket bonus, instead t10 chest has a red and a blue socket with the second best socket bonus you'll get, + 6 strength. In this case you put the nightmare's tear into the blue socket.
With this said some of you guys might argue that oh hey dk going for agil is bad, but that is not the case, the agil fully raid buff gives you more then just the crit gem. As well as the way you have to gem for both makes it better, think of this way, you pretty much gem the way i just suggested for the meta save you take 1 blue socket and pop the strength / stam and what, get a socket bonus of 4 strength? so your gimping Yourself 6 strength. which is a laughable number to some people, but every little bit counts when your throwing punches at the lich king.

[anouxa]

Oh on a side note, I'd like to say opening up to a boss fight with no pre-planned this part of the fight takes extra damage, its safe to say great burst opening would be HoW prior to pulling - PS - IC - BS - SS - BS in which time you'll have built more then 60 runic power so, pop anything that gives you extra ap like say.. a trinket if its on use, then bring our your gargoyle. You'll notice that most of your damage and ap increases stuff will have proced in that full rotation. The reason you want to pop your ap increasing stuff (for sillies Strength increases ap as well.) increases the amount of damage your gargoyle does, which at the time at which that c/d is used, stays with that ap that you had. So it doesn't matter if all your ap procs go down in the time its out it stays scaled to what you had on summon. Now in this time period none of your runes will be up, so you can go ahead and use Empower Rune Weapon and get off 3 successful SS. By the time your next set of runes are up you should notice your diseases are about up. Most fights now are getting to be a bit long, so you will be able to use your gargoyle once or twice extra times after blowing it at the begining, three times and that fight sucks like the lich king lol or your guild needs to start picking up their dps.

[ologx28]

Nice guide helped alot + rep

[Maisteri]

Why would you want to get 44AP on gloves when you could get 15 str?

[DarkYoshi87]

Why would you want to get 44AP on gloves when you could get 15 str?

because 15 str is only 30 ap (maybe a little more with talents and whatnot)

[Gorgonite]

better with tuskarr's vitaly on boots if ur end game raiding so you get more speed which decreases chance to fail, for example, u get out of LK's defile faster and you can quicker come back to him to pick up your rotation again, otherwise great guide!

[ChildeRoland]

Why would you want to get 44AP on gloves when you could get 15 str?

15 str = 30 AP
15 str + Ravenous Dead (3%) + Endless Winter (4%)(Guide update soon) + Kings (10%) = less than 44 AP.

Sorry for double posting, but I'm bumping this due to a update.
Read the changelog in the update - window.

[kneilson]

I'm working on building my dps set now, what puts out higher numbers Unholy or Frost DW?

I ask because right now all I have is a few T9, a cape from ICC10, and two 2.6 1hs from ICC10, with saurfang's axe as my tanking weapon.


Basically...will I be fine with frost DW (assuming I continue getting T9 so i don't use half-tank gear and can manage to find a dps 2h weapon) until I can get to unholy? Or are the numbers frost puts up not even close.

[normay]

thanks for nice guide, +Rep

[ChildeRoland]

I'm working on building my dps set now, what puts out higher numbers Unholy or Frost DW?

I ask because right now all I have is a few T9, a cape from ICC10, and two 2.6 1hs from ICC10, with saurfang's axe as my tanking weapon.


Basically...will I be fine with frost DW (assuming I continue getting T9 so i don't use half-tank gear and can manage to find a dps 2h weapon) until I can get to unholy? Or are the numbers frost puts up not even close.

At the moment, Unholy and Frost is pretty balanced, but I think you can see slightly higher dps on geared frost DKs than on unholy ones.

[madheinrichs]

Glove enchant should be +15 str.