Patch Day! Which means another day of respeccing or rotation tweaking for all of us DK's out there. Here are the most optimal DPS specs for 3.2.2:
Unholy 2H 17/0/54
Glyphs:
Ghoul
Dark Death
Icy Touch
PS- IT- SS- BS- BS- DC- HoW- DC
PS- IT- SS- BS- BS- DC- DC
*Trust me on the Icy touch here...you need the added Runic Power to fire off Deathcoils, as this will be one of the harder hitting abilites for unholy. Haste in 3.2.2 has also been found to be the next highest weighted (secondary) stat, after hit>expertise>str.
Blood 2H 51/0/20
Glyphs:
Dark Death
Dancing Rune Weapon
Death Strike
*Blood dps has pretty much remained unscathed during the patch process--still hits hard as ever, with the exception of the nerf to heartstrike's cleave, which now hits the second target for 50% damage. What is notable to watch out for, is whether or not Blizz added deathstrike into the Sigil of Virulence, which would quickly make it favorable for blood.
DW Frost is still the same as ever, though I didn't list it here, cause, frankly, obtaining the hit needed to successfully utilize it is a bit out of my reach-- and I really haven't seen anyone on the server (personally) gear it to a successful end. With BiS gear, or the right wep's with hit rating trink(s), DW is very nice. Having to gem for hit though just took away too much AP for me...
***UPDATE 09/25/2009***
I tinkered around with unholy the last few days, and I can say that I am thoroughly dissatisfied. It is consistently lower on raid boss dps (single target) than blood--Running with 2 pc/T8 and 2pc/T9 gear. That will definitely change after receiving the 4pc T9 set bonus, but until then, it is still very lackluster. Even with the nerf to ArP, blood is still able to edge it out.
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I have my T9 four piece set, and my blood DPS still wrecks my Unholy DPS. The Burst damage in Blood, even in ToC 25 still outweighs the stagnant Unholy tree.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's difficult to pull ahead of Blood in terms of raw dps, especially when 90% of the gear is favored towards ArP.
ReplyDeleteWith the 4pc T9--unholy own in multiple target encounters, and does bring a unique buff (Ebon Plaguebringer) to the raid to increase DoT damage--overall, with more than 1 DK in a raid, or Spriest, or Aff Lock, unholy really does provide a nice buff.
Just a heads up. Because Blizz added Death Strike to Sigil of Virulence, its a nice dps gain to switch out SotVH to virulence and glyph of Dark Death to Glyph Of disease.
ReplyDeleteYeah, at the time I wrote the post, it was just a rumor that DS would be added to Virulence.
ReplyDeleteGoD over Dark Death is definitely more effective in 4 pc T9, but only marginally without. Without the 4 pc T9 bonus, I would personally stick to Dark Death for the simplicity of the rotation...