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DW Frost DPS - Blowing Up the Competition One Obliterate At A Time
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Eleazer
Harlon, I apologize if I came off harsh. I simply was trimming down my reply to as few words as possible. The benefit of blood subspec is that with limited gear it is a much better subspec than unholy. However once you get into i219/224/232 gear it begins to fall behind unholy subspec. Due to increased haste/armourpen on the gear at that level.
Granted, the greater the amount of haste the greater the benefit of unholy subspec. However, you must come away from the old Single disease HB/FS spam mentality. The benefit of Blood subspec in that old spec was the added crits to FS spamming, ob has a huge crit basis anyways, and so the added crit from blood subspec becomes a case of diminishing returns.
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Eleazer
Unholy DW dps is slightly behind Frost DW, but on high movement fights it has the potential to be better than Frost. It uses the same basic attacks, but while adding bonus damage to spell power atttacks it loses the bonus to Obliterate and doesn't have ToT.
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Eleazer
I couldn't tell you mate, I have read that if geared right it is only about 200-500 dps behind DW frost. 2H unholy is another 200 dps behind it. 2h Blood is about on par with DW frost.
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Eleazer
Anyone have an idea as to how to get this stickied so we don't have to keep bumping it up?
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Omaha303
Hey Eleazer, excellent guide you put together as I'm looking to update my DK from 3.1 to 3.2. One thing tough, do you have plans to add a list of the best gear for each stage, like regular, preheroic, heroic like Lynri did
here
? That will help very much for those of us to still are dependable on vendors and quests, before raids.
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Eleazer
I didn't notice it in the helpful threads. Glad it made it there, that's all I wanted it to be, this way all we have to do is say, Check the Helpful Threads.
Omaha, not really, because in all honesty it's all subjective. That and there are so many add-ons that can do it for you. Atlasloot helps find gear, and you can look it up based on what stats you need. The problem with BiS gear is that it all depends on what stats you already have in order to make it BiS. I didn't want to get into that so left that part out of it. Weapons are a bit easier because you are limited in what you can get, but they are also easier to figure out.
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Eleazer
You only need 8 percent with the 3 percent from talents. DW is up to you. You have the weapons to do it. It's really a matter of preference. Which spec do you enjoy more, what do you have more fun doing? Both DW frost and Blood get better as you progress. DW frost tends to scale better with haste gear, and Blood tends to scale better with ArP and Crit gear.
What I did notice is that your expertise is really low I would wait till you get to at least 15 in expertise before going DW though.
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