5.4 PTR DK Changes

[Darkfriend]

Can anyone give an explanation or a damage percentage of Icy Spikes in Frost? GOogling gave nothing
(I mean 4t16 Frost) What's the average damage/dot effect and what is the uptime of it?

http://www.destinysoftworks.com/

First page,

Spec, ilevel, 2-set, 4-set, Both

T16
DW, 580, 2.4%, 2.7%, 5.3%
UH, 580, 1.4%, 1.2%, 2.5%
2H, 580, 1.3%, 3.2%, 4.9%

DW, 553, 2.7%, 2.5%, 5.0%
UH, 553, 1.3%, 1.1%, 2.4%
2H, 553, 1.3%, 2.8%, 4.7%

[Minoan]

Cheers mate! Gave no attention to it last time when I checked the blog.

[Shiira]

Those numbers are slightly incorrect, the dual wield numbers for the four set are double what they should be.

[myeviltwin]

Those numbers are slightly incorrect, the dual wield numbers for the four set are double what they should be.

No, he linked the corrected ones. It was closer to 5% before

[Skillslam]

Picked up my 2pc bonus last night. Does anyone feel like the death shroud could stand to last a bit longer? It seems to take me a decent amount of luck to reach 10 stacks just by tunneling, but with a 5 second duration if I have to leave melee range for any amount of time (malkorok circles) I just lost the whole stack, gg.

[Deleted]

Even when tunelling the stack falls off eventually (~75% uptime on malkorok), but that one time it stays up and just doesnt fall off, its beautiful .
Happened on Thokk for me yesterday, got a rank 3 out of it =).
Wish it was tied to something more predictable though.

[Ryleylol]

Since talking about set bonuses here, does the 2 set feel really mediocre to anyone else as unholy? Picked it up before raid yesterday, running 6300~ haste I had a max of 7 stacks of the buff during lust/unholy frenzy with random 1-2 stacks throughout the fight with a max of a 4 stack during another part with unholy frenzy up.

Has anyone hit 10 stacks of the buff as unholy?

e: Simmed it out and 2pc with my gear put haste above mastery again so I'll try it out in raid again but with 10k haste instead of 6k and see if that makes a difference.

[scabobos]

2-piece feels pretty lack luster to me as well. Maybe I need to the trinkets and the 4-piece to see the difference but I'm having a hard time convincing myself t16 2pc > t15 2pc.

[Xevz]

Can anyone tell me why on EJ for red gem slots you put in orange str/crit gems? doesn't make sense to me when the stat weight says strength is about 2 points higher than crit.

580 Stat Weights:

Stat
Weight
Strength 7.75
Hit (to cap) 11.05
Expertise (to cap) 11.02
Haste 4.43
Crit 4.98
Mastery 4.68

[Maelstrom51]

Because 160 crit is worth more than 80 strength.

[bals]

Can anyone tell me why on EJ for red gem slots you put in orange str/crit gems? doesn't make sense to me when the stat weight says strength is about 2 points higher than crit.

580 Stat Weights:

Stat
Weight
Strength 7.75
Hit (to cap) 11.05
Expertise (to cap) 11.02
Haste 4.43
Crit 4.98
Mastery 4.68

160crit x4.98 = 796.8
80 str x7.75 = 620

you want the bigger number

[Shiira]

No, he linked the corrected ones. It was closer to 5% before

I'm a huge idiot who got the columns mixed up, serves me right for posting that early in the morning.