This Blood DPS spec for 3.1

[Grissle]

Lookin to find a new blood spec after 3.1... i am currently unholy. but level'd blood and really enjoyed it. but when i started raiding switched to unholy cause just could'nt do the dps unholy was doin. But i see some things that make it a little more competative. here is what i was lookin at.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757


Im thinkin bout doin the same rotation as a regular blood spec would. but sub Obliterate for Death Strike. Please any current Blood death knights that know the spec well have a look at that spec. And point out the holes... please would really like to be a viable blood DK.

[lemuever17]

Lookin to find a new blood spec after 3.1... i am currently unholy. but level'd blood and really enjoyed it. but when i started raiding switched to unholy cause just could'nt do the dps unholy was doin. But i see some things that make it a little more competative. here is what i was lookin at.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757


Im thinkin bout doin the same rotation as a regular blood spec would. but sub Obliterate for Death Strike. Please any current Blood death knights that know the spec well have a look at that spec. And point out the holes... please would really like to be a viable blood DK.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757


I change your build a little bit, use pestile to refresh the disease

[Cdpang]

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757

Anything involving icy touch or plague strike is more or less a waste... since you'll rarely be using them if you refresh diseases with pestilence. There's absolutely no reason to use points for annihilation if you'll be using death strike. Getting your diseases to last as long as you can will be important, since you can use the blood rune for heart strike instead of pestilence. Don't underestimate your ghoul, even if it can't be up 100% of the time.

[Rick]

I think im goin to do a build more like this:

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757

With morbidity and glyph of dark death it will increase the dmg of your death coil by 30% which should be a nice dps increase seeing as death coil is what you use to dump most of your runic power as blood when DRW is not up and also you will be launching them quite often with sudden doom plus i think the dmg of necrosis and blood caked blade will do much better dps than icy talons plus if there is a frost dk in your group you will be getting icy talons from them. But i am still undecided between glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon and Glyph of Disease.

[Mothhive]

You should be going something like following. The last two points can be spent by one's personal likings.

<a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...7">51/2/1x</a>

<a href="http://elitistjerks.com/f72/t38659-b...st1180154">Why would I take RPM?</a>

Most of the peopole in the thread you linked don't think RPM is worth it and the guy advocating RPM says that's it's actually slightly less DPS than a build without it, but then makes flawed assumptions about casting more death coils when you will still only generate the same ammount of RP.

He's also assuming 4 hits in the extra 3 seconds of DRW and assuming that it white crits for 4k in a raid (when that's what it does fully raid buffed now and it will be halved in 3.1) and 3.3k crits on a boss dummy (max crit is half that in every test I've done on PTR).

Another flaw in his logic is stating that "3 seconds of DRW is worth around 26509 damage" based on someone saying that the glyph accounted for 44,181 damage in their test. Their test was for 8 casts of DRW, making the actual damage done in 3 seconds of DRW around 3314 damage.

Just because his post is on the Elitist Jerks forum and hasn't been torn apart (yet), doesn't make it right, so go and run your own tests and come up with your own conclusions.

[Raptorg]

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757

This is what I'll be speccing.

[RobeNWizardHat]

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jciMVh0IsbRfostZfMbhxc

How does this look? Should I take a point out of Necrosis to get one into Night of the Dead?

[Aragaarn]

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jciMVh0IsbRfostZfMbhxc

How does this look? Should I take a point out of Necrosis to get one into Night of the Dead?

That's a great spec.... it's EXACTLY the one I'm using! (you dont need night of the dead unless you have a perma ghoul:P)

[Inksmith]

This is the spec I am trying out. 48/0/23.
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757

[Mothhive]

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jciMVh0IsbRfostZfMbhxc

How does this look? Should I take a point out of Necrosis to get one into Night of the Dead?

Any reason you put 2 points into Blade barrier rather than Butchery? I know 2 RP every 5 seconds doesn't sound like alot, but that's 120 RP every 5 minutes (more if you get killing blows on mobs) and will add to your DPS, whereas 2% less damage when blood runes are on cooldown is pretty useless for DPS.

If you want to squeeze out a little bit more DPS, you might want to consider moving the points from Mark of Blood and Improved Blood Presence (both are pretty meh) to Bloodworms.

Moving 1 point from Epidemic into Morbidity to max it out will also increase your DPS without making your rotation too difficult to pull off... in my opinion anyway.

[Desdimonda]

This is what I'm itching to spec come 15:00!

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9767

[Zangu]

I'm planning to go 5X|0|2X but I don't yet know which of the 'Ultimates' of this spec I should invest into bee it Dancing Rune Weapon or Unholy Blight - Any Opinions?

I also see a lot of similiar Specs going for 3/3 Blood-Caked Blade... Is it worth to take it instead of 2/2 Night of the Dead and one of the former Ultimates ( Dancing Rune Weapon / Unholy Blight )?

[yetizlasu]

Well id made 2 builds with blood dk
1st one with ghoul
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...5&version=9767

and 2nd
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...5&version=9767

As you can see the 1st use ub and ghoul and 2nd DRW
Rotation is simple IT+PS+HS+HS+DS like one of beta tester says

Obliterate has become a purely Frost ability, and I think that's by design. It's of no use to Blood or Unholy anymore. Blood has DS, unholy has SS.

on the end of rotation dc or drw or ub

[Ather]

ok some1 smart can tell me whats gonna make better dps ? (i dont wanna waste too much gold for respeces:P)

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...5&version=9767

but i've problem what would make better dps: epidemic or morbidity. and also is it better to go blood-caked blae or night of the dead ? x:

[Mothhive]

ok some1 smart can tell me whats gonna make better dps ? (i dont wanna waste too much gold for respeces:P)

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...5&version=9767

but i've problem what would make better dps: epidemic or morbidity. and also is it better to go blood-caked blae or night of the dead ? x:

Move the 2 points from RPM into Morbidity. RPM is awful. I'd personally move 1 from Epidemic into Morbidity too.

As for BCB or NotD, I'll be going with BCB. Not sure if it works out as better DPS, but I don't really want to buff the survivability of a ghoul that will only be up for 1 minute max. I know it halves the cooldown on summoning it, as well as the army, but it still doesn't seem worth it to me.

[Ather]

hmm isnt rpm a good combo with dancing rune weapon ?

[Mothhive]

Nope. 3 extra seconds of DRW for 2 talent points? In the tests I did on the PTR, that works out to around 3000 extra damage every 90 seconds, which works out as 33 extra DPS, or 17 DPS per point. Bloodworms actually increase your DPS more. Not worth it. At all.

[Ather]

yeah i see your point thanks for advice.

[Zenthelm]

This spec is what I'm planning to go for,

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...&version=9757#

Only thing I have to question is should I go for the extra 5 secons on DRW or the 15% DC dmg. I'm leaning towards the DC dmg since I feel with the amount of SD procs it will be the better choice. Any ideas one way or the other on the final glyph?

[yaamaan]

Hello everybody, i wonder what would the dps cycle be like with this spec:

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deat...6&version=9757

thanks for your answers, i begin HL PVE with my DK ;p