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Blood rotation feels -wrong-.. is it just me?
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Achloryn
Okay, so I respecced my DK to blood (51/0/20) last night, and gave him a run through H-HoL to get a handle on the rotation. Well, the problem is that after doing my normal boss rotation (IT-PS-DS-HS-HS-RP dump) I was left with a solid 2 seconds
at least
until my next rune came up so I was just standing there on auto-attack until I could start the second half of my rotation. Is this normal in any way? I was in blood presence so it wasn't the lower GCD given by unholy presence.
I guess my question is this.. is that a normal occurance, or am I doing something wrong, or do I just absolutely hate the way the blood rotation feels? IDK, but after that run i instantly went back and respecced into DW frost. anyone have any ideas or has anyone else experienced anything like this?
Post by
asakawa
hey ach, i must admit i've never been a fan of the blood rotation/spec. i can't put my finger on exactly why - i don't think that the couple of seconds waiting for runes is necessarily a blood thing, most specs have the same thing on the first time through a rotation - but it just doesn't click with me.
most DKs in my guild love blood and get some excellent results from using it but i tank as frost and dps as unholy and just can't manage to get results from doing either as blood.
as for your actual question, i suppose you're used to frost's extra RP gain and relatively low RP use (via glyph of IT and FS) giving you more RP dump time but the 2 second delay itself isn't a particular blood problem and isn't something you should worry about overly if that's you main issue.
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asakawa
those are great things for a tank to consider but achloryn is speaking from a DPSers perspective (51/0/20)
Post by
Achloryn
Thanks, asakawa. I'm glad I'm not the only one who just feels that the blood rotation is just.. unwieldy. That's really the only way I can put it. And yeah, you're probably right, it probably does have a lot to do that I can hit frost strike somewhere around 3 times and usually at least one rime proc in my frost DW rotation on a regular basis. (The IT and FS glyphs are godsends imo.)
I guess it just goes back to the entire "play what you like" sentiment... just wanted to make sure there wasn't something iw as doing dramatically wrong.
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Post by
Achloryn
From a dps standpoint, those runes being on cooldown and you standing there bored will be a great thing come 3.3. Set bonus on t10 increases your damage for 20s whenever your runes are on cooldown =D
hahaha. that's assuming I get anywhere near t10 content. I'm not a serious raider on my DK by any stretch. his gear, to be honest, is pretty horrid in the grand scheme of things. in fact, for the most part, i've retired from serious raiding overall. far too much of a time constraint on my already strained schedule. now i'm just playing for fun.
edit: hrm. I just realized that makes it sound like i don't think raiding is fun, and I should clarify it.. raiding isn't fun for -me- anymore. at least not in the sense that it used to be. if that's your thing then more power to you, but it just isn't for me anymore.
Post by
Thelinz
what i do on the first rotation: PS, IT, DS, HSx2, Horn, pop hysteria and DRW, Empowered Rune weapon and thats a hell of an opening sequence right there =)
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