Death Knight Solo/Lvling spec

[RedMageNeko]

Not in the beta, so I'm purely theory crafting at the moment. I wanted to make a spec that could take a lot of abuse from single to multiple mobs and continue to plow through them.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000

Now, there are a few things I don't know that will affect this build. For example, does Death Coil have a cooldown that will keep me from firing off the proc of Sudden Doom, then using it a second time to finish them off? Also, are ghouls going to be a decent source of damage for a Death Knight? How effective should I expect Dancing Rune Weapon to be in terms of damage?

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...12001050000000

This is a more pet centric version, designed to keep me with a Ghoul at all times, along with increasing the chances of diseasing my opponents for big Blood Strikes and Obliterates. Improved Corpse Explosion in particular is something I like, giving me a bit of AoE outside of Death and Decay to take down those pesky Vyrkul or whatever gets in my way.

Anyone in beta see something I should grab, something I should ignore?

[Deleted]

I like the specs you got there.

I was also thinking about something like this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000
Im not so sure about the Sudden Doom 5/5, how useful is it?

Or maybe something like this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00011000000000

[Verden Odela]

Sudden doom isn't very good. Death Coil is like Heroic Strike for fury warriors. A rage dump. When you have a lot of runic power you can send 3-4 Death coils at an enemy before the fight starts.

[Sierius]

I have been liking something similar to this:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...02000000000000

Sudden doom isn't very good. Death Coil is like Heroic Strike for fury warriors. A rage dump. When you have a lot of runic power you can send 3-4 Death coils at an enemy before the fight starts.

And heroic strike makes up for a good portion of warriors dps. If I could get something like this on my warrior I would be giddy for days. 20% for FREE and CRIT, yeah thats sexy.

[Leialyn]

I like this one best
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=jiI0e0fhiso0zAoZbILhx

[MortuariusBC]

I like this one best
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=jiI0e0fhiso0zAoZbILhx

leveling specs that require level 80 ftw

ill probably level with blood like 90% of the other Dks... but ill probably farm at 80 with unholy

[RedMageNeko]

leveling specs that require level 80 ftw

ill probably level with blood like 90% of the other Dks... but ill probably farm at 80 with unholy

Yeah, I know. I went straight for 80. But if I find a solid spec I lvled with, I rarely change it at 70 just because I know it, its worked for me, and while I may not have the best DPS, I can usually take a lot of abuse and keep going. Now if you would LIKE to know what spec I'd be using once I leave Ebon Hold I can do that easily.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000

Again I went for Sudden Doom because as someone said before, it may be a runic power dump, but its a FREE runic power dump WITH a guaranteed crit, so I can fire off more powerful ones as the fight progresses. But once I either get into the beta or it releases, I'll play around a bit with it, see if its worth the five points or not. If I find I don't really care for it, here's the build I'll go with most likely.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000

Again, opinions are welcome.

[Hexblade]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00011000000000

I like this one ^^

[Verden Odela]

Why would a leveling spec be level 80?


http://www.mmo-champion.com/talent/?...00000000000000


The spec Ill be when I leave ebon hold.

[Shido]

Im not sure which spec i want to be once i hit 80 on my dk.
Below are some ideas i have and figure c what you guys think.
Some feed back would be good beside ideas.

29/0/42

45/0/26

25/10/36

45/0/26 (Different Tweak)

29/0/42 (Different Tweak)

Trying to get these spec to be well rounded specs for pvp/pve (soloing and raiding)

[Nahela]

Sudden doom isn't very good. Death Coil is like Heroic Strike for fury warriors. A rage dump. When you have a lot of runic power you can send 3-4 Death coils at an enemy before the fight starts.

You should probably play the beta before you comment. There aren't a whole lot of 'RP dumps' available, it's a fantastic talent.

[Verden Odela]

So you think it's more useful than Blade Barrier or Blood Worms? This is a leveling build we're talking about.


And I don't see how one 1200 free crit - a gcd is considered a fantastic talent. Death Coil isn't meant to be used once. Enlighten me?

[Sierius]

So you think it's more useful than Blade Barrier or Blood Worms?  This is a leveling build we're talking about.


And I don't see how one 1200 free crit - a gcd is considered a fantastic talent.  Death Coil isn't meant to be used once.  Enlighten me?

For leveling, blade barrier is crap but may have some use in soloing at 80.  Blood worms is uber for either.

1x1200 free crit is going to be devestating to the mob.  TBC mobs at level 70 have roughly 8500 hp.  Now all of a sudden this "worthless" 1200 crit does 14% of the mobs life, seems awesome to me.  Besides, you can follow it up with a second death coil of ~600-800 for a total of roughly 22% of the mobs health.  As for a waste of a gcd, we are going to have about 1 sec (depending on lag) to cast before the runes become active, assuming you blew all of them in 10 seconds.  This leaves us at +0.5 secs that we are "wasting".

Edit:
And the damage will definatly increase with gear and level due to the AP -> Spell Damage conversion

[Verden Odela]

I stopped reading at for leveling blade barrier is crap....



Please never post again.

[Sierius]

Then maybe you should back up your claims, enlighten me

[Reis]

Sudden doom seems to only proc about every 3 mobs for me. Its really nice when it procs, but I'm not sure its worth the points to be honest. Scent of blood is amazing. I can tank around 3 mobs at once and still end the fight at full health. Vendetta is also awesome for leveling. These two talents have made rune tap pretty much worthless. I can probably count the number of times I've used rune tap on one hand. I didn't bother picking up infested corpse because I was constantly at full health anyway.

I picked up heart strike, but it seems almost completely worthless as is. If they made it into an instant attack, I'd use it, but currently it almost isn't worth binding it. I've only used dancing rune weapon around 3 times so far (I have maybe 10 minutes played at 60 and most of that was spent going to train), but it seems to be a massive dps increase. It hits just as hard as my character does. The only problem is that you kill things so fast that most of its duration is wasted running to other mobs.

As for the runic power dump, at 60, the only options are really death coil, mind freeze (spell interrupt), and whatever 51 pointer you have. Most the time I'm unloading death coils constantly, there really just isn't much else to use the RP on.

[Kadvael]

considering the dancing running weapon, maybe aggro some mobs, get them into the "death an decay" before calling upon it ?

what about the icy touch ?

[hired assassin]

http://www.mmo-champion.com/talent/?...00000000000000 this is how i will be at lvl 80 with up to hysteria at 55 then finishing blood with 2 xtra points for imp dc

[Verden Odela]

Leveling on a DK is usually mostly AoE grinding, if you're going blood. Then Blade Barrier is a must. Pull a couple mobs, death and decay, dump runes, repeat. Added on to the healing effects of blood, your chances of dying from an AoE pull are very slim.



Sudden Doom still seems like a wasted FIVE talent points to me.

[theredviola]

Having not played Beta myself, I'm completely theorizing right now based on what I've read I'm leaning towards either of these specs:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/talent/?...12011035033000

http://www.mmo-champion.com/talent/?...00000000000000