Originally Posted by
Smeghead
Depends on the fight. Single target you want to run with Unholy Blight, we'll go with an 8 second pull timer as standard here.
Pull timer begins, cast army.
At 3 seconds, cast Unholy Blight.
At 2 seconds, drink a Potion of Mogu Strength.
As the pull is happening, do the following for each GCD >
Have a macro containing /cast Unholy Frenzy, Stoneskin Gargoyle, Engineering Gloves, Blood Fury, (For Orcs) - Pop this as the boss is pulled.
Scourge, Festering, Festering, Scourge.
While those abilities hit, your Unholy blight will have fell off. But it will have left you with diseases containing, racial buff, strength potion buff, trinket str proc buffs + engineering glove buff / tailoring cloak buff if you have em.
Then ramp as many deathcoils into the target as possible, buffing Timmy...get his ass transformed ASAP.
Then it is your standard Unholy rotation focusing on maintaining those supercharged dots using Festering strike.
They will generally do 50% more damage than any diseases you would end up re-apply every 30 seconds if you chose Plague Leech.
Just aim to time them falling off at the same time the boss dies, because x2 Scourge Strikes > x1 Festering so you want to start watching how long those diseases have left on them sub < 35%. But before that go ham on the festering strikes to keep those diseases up.
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If AoE is involved in the encounter grab Roiling Blood and swap out a scourge strike for a DnD every 30 seconds, it's the same deal except you need to grab DK Diseases to show you when your peak attack power has hit during the opener.
Instead of your first attack being a festering, use a plague strike, Fes, Fes, scourge strike combo. During those 4 attacks your trinkets will have procced so keep an eye out and use Outbreak the second the stars align (using DK Diseases, or your eyes if you're a savant).
Eh, that should do it. Just be quick on buffing up timmy and don't hesitate to use those Sudden Doom procs for free deathcoils during the middle of the opener...each one buffs Timmy's damage by 10% even before you transform him.
Enjoy unholy, I switched after my first HC Garrosh kill as Frost and after 30 more farm kills as Unholy, I just find it so much more fun.
Signature thing for profile stuff, blah blah 589 DK been around forever. Don't take my shit as gospel, this is just how I do my openers (I may have been doing it wrong for years).