I will level as blood and use Sephuz and Aggramars. Speed > all.
I will level as blood and use Sephuz and Aggramars. Speed > all.
Prydaz is 265, Heart of Azeroth is 280.
Heart of Azeroth has much higher stats than Prydaz. +129 to crit/mastery/haste vs Prydaz +77 to each of those. We're talking just under double, 156 total secondary stats. Not only, taking heart of azeroth opens up a legendary slot elsewhere meaning a 265 armor piece somewhere else. All of this, even excluding the azeroth trait or the effect of the other legendary you take, is much greater than taking Prydaz on mere stats alone.
Having just leveled through BFA this weekend in Beta on my Frost DK, here's a few general tips.
1. You start getting Azerite armor upgrades pretty early. These generally start at ilvl 280 and you'll get a few 300 pieces as you level and are generally huge boosts in raw stats (at the expense of secondaries) in 3 slots: head, chest and shoulders. Thus any leggos that take up slots other than these are going to last you until that 115 cutoff point.
2. Around level 116 or so, you'll start to get green quest rewards that outlevel your leggos. Whether or not the stats work for your class is another story, typically just like in Legion you'll want to equip rings if they have better secondaries, and this is even more important given that Azerite leaves you with less secondary stats overall.
3. I found that the Toravon bracers were also hard to get rid of because bracer rewards were few and far between. Other slots got filled pretty quickly. You get a ton of rings thrown at you so Sephuz is probably not going to last far beyond 115. Best strategy is to throw every non-Azerite slot leggo with good stats (read: HASTE) in your bag and swap as you get better rewards. You still have the asinine "2 Legion legendary" restriction even as green quest rewards outscale them.
4. Haste loss from 115-120 is a REAL problem. The class currently feels really, REALLY horrible at 120 because of this, both as Frost and Unholy. Frost even moreso because of ERW and POF being on the global now. I'm currently 302 ilvl after a day of WQs, dungeoning and whatnot and I'm basically doing WQs as Blood because Frost gets destroyed by anything more than 2 normal mobs, let alone WQ boss mobs.
I like the feel of sephuz and shoulders for unholy, makes the 3 man group mobs soloable until they go dormant at 116
Sephuz + Aggramars Stride. Our mobility is crap so this combo is my go-to for questing/transmog farming and outdoor content
Alternatively, Sephuz/Tovarons (Sephuz/Soul of the Deathlord for UH) before engaging mobs then switch to movement set after mobs
Last edited by Th3Scourge; 2018-07-25 at 12:55 AM.
What do you guys think would be the best spec to lvl with?
In Legion I had a pretty bad experience lvling as UH lvl 108-110. Frost seems like the obvious choice but UH does wonderful dmg very quickly with warmode talents.
On topic I think using cold heart with frozen heart talent will be over kill for regular mobs. It will probably do twice their health in dmg and its single target so in my opinion not worth it. I will be running burning wish but not sure about second legendary.
Thanks for the info mate, really helpful!
I'll probably level with Unholy. Will definitely run Ebon Fever with the Unholy Mutation PvP talent and a pack of mobs will probably be annihilated with the 400% eruption damage upon DoT expiry.
Other PvP talents will probably be Wandering Plague for the extra DoT and Necrotic Aura for extra magic damage. Interested in trying a Defile/Grip of the Dead build to give me some good kiting potential which should allow me to pull massive packs. Will probably run Death's Reach and Epidemic though, but I'll definitely experiment with talents a bit further during lvling as can't really decide right now with our current power level and Argus mobs.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=153714/i...llite#comments just off trainer in beta, but may change at launch