DPS Spec, Glyphs, Rotation - For Smar

Okay so I'm going to give you some quick info on DK DPS.

Blood Build

Heres a solid spec:
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Rune: Fallen Crusader

Blood worms can be subbed in for blood tap and vampiric blood, but some people prefer the utility of the latter two. The points in unholy are still malleable; the idea of night of the dead is to have AotD available for every boss attempt (Wipe or not), which is a better DPS increase than necrosis given that situation.

Rotation/Priorities

Generally one will be better served utilizing a priorities system over a strict rotation; strict rotations can lead to a mindset in which one rigidly adheres to a certain sequence of attacks instead of injecting one's own breaks/pauses/GCD's to do other things before resuming. This will hopefully provide some guidelines as to what each spec's attack sequences will look like. I'll provide both a sequence then a priority list in order to highlight their similarities and differences.

Rotation
1st round: Plague strike - icy touch - death strike- heart strike - heart strike - RP dump
2nd round: Death strike - heart strike - heart strike - heart strike - heart strike - RP dump

NOTE: Keep in mind, your RP Dump should ALWAYS be Dancing Rune Weapon unless its on CD. In which case, 2 Deathcoils will do.

Priority List
1) Keep your diseases up. When they wear off, refresh them with plague strike - icy touch.
2) Use death runes to heart strike when possible, and the same for blood runes.
3) If you do not need to refresh your diseases, use death strike with Frost/Unholy rune combo's.
4) RP (Rune Power) capping is not as major of an issue for blood DK's as it is for unholy. You will almost never have time to do more than two death coils during RP dump opportunities, and your rune moves take higher precedence than your death coils.

Glyphs

For blood DPS your glyphs aren't particularly beneficial. But all added DPS, although minor, is definately worth acquiring. You'd be best of going with Icy Touch, and Pestilence. The third is up to personal preference really. I prefer Death Strike myself, the added Damage/Healing helps both your DPS and your survivability.

Follow this closely, practice your priorities and cycle on the heroic dummy until your used to it.

Thanks, that first rotation I always use. Did you write this youself or got of EJ/whatever?

I did bits on my own, but copy/pasted some bits from the DK forums. I don't usually use EJ, unless I'm looking for game mechanics.

SkylerZX wrote:I did bits on my own, but copy/pasted some bits from the DK forums. I don't usually use EJ, unless I'm looking for game mechanics.

Ok, thanks. With the glyphs, what ones should i get, like name? i have the one that makes raise dead free and i have one that makes Death and decay more powerful

I'm not sure exactly what their called. Your minor glyphs don't really matter, just pick what ever you prefer for them. But the major glyphs you want are the one of Death Strike, Icy Touch and Pestilence.

How much do they cost altogether often? because i am going to farm for a day to pay for it

Not a whole lot, 30-50g. I bought them with my DK and I don't remember them costing anymore than that.

Oh, cool. I was thinking 500g haha. Well, what is the fastest way other than dailys to get that. I will do dailys if i cant do what you suggest

You do enchanting right? Running ZF a couple of times will make you some EZ money from selling mats.

Ooo.. cool, i never thought of that, i never payed any attention to profs, seemed like a waste to me

speaking of chanting mats, and once again going off topic, where would i get infinite dust and dream shards?

Ah?... ummm Try running Ramps, that might have 'em from greens.

i dont have chanting though. anything drop them? or could you DE them for me smar

Oh lol. Nah, I dont think they're regular drops. You can get Smar to DE the BoEs I guess, or just buy 'em from AH

i looked for them on the AH but i need like 40 infinite dust and stuff cause its the 81 sp to my staff so its heaps expensive

Yeah, my weapon enchants cost about 1.2k each

i dont have that kind of money so i gotta farm it myself

Yeah, its pretty rough

lol we have the new site and were still sing this one

I'm making the forums topics/categories now, I'll get back to ya when done.

kk all done. Its a little cluttered so I might move things around, but your fine to post.

And what do you think of the theme? I can change it around If somethings wrong.

its better. i quite like it. im on it atm haha