Krye

[Deejay]

Whatup my nig. Quick question.

I decided to reup my WoW account because a couple friends started playing again. I have an 85 Druid (fuck druid) and an 85 DK. I checked arena junkies and there seems to be a lot of people saying that frost is easy mode now. I'd like to play whatever spec lets me rape for free, because I have no skill and I haven't touched the game since April.

Right now my gear sucks though. I heard Humans can run DW frost pretty well and that's the spec I'd likely play. Any advice on what I gear/spec I should aim for first?

[Krye]

Frost DK is probably the easiest spec in the game and the best spec in terms of getting maximum results with little to no skill. Feral druids are better than DKs right now if you can play it well, but it's a much more complicated spec. Unholy DKs are probably on the same level as frost, but it's much harder to play UH than frost and their strength comes in utility rather than raw damage. Death knights have a ton of self-healing and immunity abilities which makes them very faceroll. Of course, it doesn't fucking matter because other classes do enough damage to kill you in a stun (rogue/mage/ret) or they can kite you(mage/hunter/druid/warlock/shaman) to the end of the earth because frost mobility is shit. It's not all bad though, if you want to check out a gallery of me raping meters and never dying, here you go: http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i226/KryeThomas/PVP/

This is my DW spec: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ryedk/advanced You have a couple different options with your spec choices. You can pick up +45% obliterate damage instead of 30 extra RP, but obliterate is a very situational ability. Most of the time you'll do more damage/pressure by using two howling blasts or necrotic strikes instead of one obliterate, but if you're pressed for globals then obliterate does more burst on cloth/leather. Your other talent choice is to pick up one minute strangulate in the blood tree or desecration in the unholy tree. Howling blast applies chillblains so the only real use for desecration is when you're on druids that are trying to spam shapeshift to get away.

DW and 2H specs are different playstyles because you don't get runic power from auto attacks as DW. DW uses death runes on howling blast and prioritizes howling blasts over necrotic strikes to keep RP up. 2H uses death runes on necrotic and generally uses necrotic before HB. I have two DKs, I run DW on one and 2H on the other, it's not a big difference either way. DW does more actual damage, but 2H generates more pressure via the necrotic strike healing absorb. DW procs killing machine more often and you get to enchant razorice on your second weapon. One thing to keep in mind is that the 2H weapon costs 3400 points, but it costs 4900 points for the two 1H swords(that's an extra week of points at the default point cap).

Here is an example of the damage I can do on my DK in mostly Vicious gear(I can't fucking wait until I have full Ruthless and I can shred fuckers even harder than I do now):



One last note, DO NOT USE OBLITERATE WITHOUT DISEASES UP. DO NOT USE OBLITERATE UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU CAN GET A KILL WITH IT. AND DO NOT USE OBLITERATE EVER IF YOU CHOOSE TO RUN A SPEC WITHOUT THE +45% OBLIT DAMAGE Obliterate is your only ability that is affected by armor and diseases. That means that the 90K+ oblits I can get on the target dummy don't generally hit higher than 5K on mail or plate. The only time obliterate is worth using is on cloth/leather targets that you are sure you can finish off. Using 3 obliterates, 3 frost strikes, empowered rune weapon to refresh your runes, hitting 3 more obliterates, and 3 more frost strikes can be some disgusting damage, you can just have to know when to use it.

[Krye]

Oh yeah, DW spec gives you more hit so you can reforge everything to mastery.

[Deejay]

Fuck that, DW frost it is. That shit looks easy enough for me. I have a S9 vicious 2hander so I guess I'll use that until I get my point game up for DW. Should I just focus on using honor points on S10 vicious set, or should I spend them on a 2 vicious 1 handers first and buy ruthless gear with my conquest? Fuck there's so many options

[Krye]

Honor is so easy to farm now that it doesn't really matter what you buy first.

[Blarg]

Krye, you don't even play wow, what would you know.

[Krye]

More like it took two minutes on the phone to get my account back

[Deejay]

Krye, one last question. Do you use any DK specific addons? Right now I'm using the default UI but I feel like a scrub

[Deejay]

I kind of want something that makes my rune cooldown thing a little more visible

[Krye]

I had the same issue when I started playing DK. I tried using Yury's rune display, but I just kept trying to look up at the top left instead of where I had moved the runes to. I eventually just got used to watching the default runes.

These aren't DK specific, but Spell Alerter and Afflicted are amazing PVP addons.

[Blarg]

when I played I dragged the rune display below my dudes feet so it was easy to see

[Krye]

No, I already bought my T2 weapons so I don't need the rating anymore, it just sucks for my friend cause he hadn't bought his weapon yet so he got fucked by me getting hacked

[Krye]

By the way, if you don't want to hate the shit out of WoW, never play in the 2v2 bracket

[Alleya]

DKIRunes is fantastic for rune visibility. it will give you a bar of what you have up, runes on cooldown will float up from below as they refresh so you know exactly when they'll be ready, and runic empowerment procs will sparkle when they pop up. It also has RP and optional HP bars, and shows your disease duration on your main target and an off target.

[Alleya]

Here's what DKI looks like.



Ready for 4.3 once I get a belt LET'S DO THIS

[Deejay]

Holy moly your DK is sexy. Is that pve gear? I'm thinking of tanking once I finish grinding BG's but my gear sucks for that too and I'm afraid it'll just be a waste of time since the new patch is so close

[Deejay]

And thanks for the DKI suggestion. That looks like the perfect mod for me because I hate having to look up in the corner when I'm concentrated on staying on someone.

Half the time I'll look up to see what Runes I have ready and I'll be like "OOOOOOH FROST IS ALMOST READY LETS DO THIS" - and then I look down and the Mage/Warlock/Hunter's I was fighting has teleported to bumfuck egypt and I'm all like "hey where'd you go? "

[Alleya]

That's DK 7.5 gear. They're letting you change the look of your armor next patch, so I farmed it up. Comes from 25 man nax/archavon/justice points.

This is what I look like normally, in pvp gear.

Spoiler: show

[Deejay]

Tits. You mind linking me to your armory? I just realized that I need to farm up 8k points to buy weapons this season which is retardedly gay, so I'm just going to stick with my S9 2hander until I can get the proper setup for dual wield.

[Alleya]

This is my DW spec: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ryedk/advanced You have a couple different options with your spec choices. You can pick up +45% obliterate damage instead of 30 extra RP, but obliterate is a very situational ability. Most of the time you'll do more damage/pressure by using two howling blasts or necrotic strikes instead of one obliterate, but if you're pressed for globals then obliterate does more burst on cloth/leather. Your other talent choice is to pick up one minute strangulate in the blood tree or desecration in the unholy tree. Howling blast applies chillblains so the only real use for desecration is when you're on druids that are trying to spam shapeshift to get away.


One last note, DO NOT USE OBLITERATE WITHOUT DISEASES UP. DO NOT USE OBLITERATE UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU CAN GET A KILL WITH IT. AND DO NOT USE OBLITERATE EVER IF YOU CHOOSE TO RUN A SPEC WITHOUT THE +45% OBLIT DAMAGE

Why the obliterate glyph if you don't have the talent?