Death Knight lvl 60 specs?

[pinotnoir]

Anyone have any good suggestions for 4 Dk's around level 58-60. I have no idea where to start out.

This http://www.wowwiki.com/Death_knight_build_samples hurts my head. I am lost. Looks like I have lots of reading to do.

[Zal]

Blood, able to heal self for a good chunk of hp with Blood Tap ( whole party if glyphed for it ) and heal just from the dmg you deal.

[glo]

Are you talking about a build for leveling a DK team boxing?

I just grabbed everything that looked good for survivability and leveled. They were basically full blood with fortitude from Frost. There isn't really much you can do that will hamper the dps. One thing I found that I barely every used was the 51 point blood talent, if I were to do it all over I would probably skip that.

[pinotnoir]

I think I will transfer my 60 priest over and have him heal 4 dk's. So from what I was researching my option was to either go unholy for the pets first or go blood. If the priest is healing for me the heal talents wouldnt be required as much. Looks like I have lots of research and setting up to do. I just wish all my keybinds would transfer over from character to character. It sucks having to go in and unbind all the default settings.

[Lyonheart]

Best spec ever for leveling is UNHOLY! why ? travel time baby, you get On a pale Horse talent that gives each DK "crusader aura". Also perma pets and mass ae dps! add a healer and no need for blood. Unholy is also a lot of eye candy. more fun than the other specs IMO!

If you plan on doing instances with them BEFORE 70, and without a healer.. than,yea, blood. If you want to level to 80 first, Unholy will not let you down!

[pinotnoir]

If I did unholy would my entire group get the speed bonus like my pally aura? I guess orcs are the best dps for horde. I should have made all orcs for the damage bonus. Right now I am reading about dk's and it seems they are very complex. You need to tune your dps rotation to your spec. I guess unholy sounds good. I would like to use 1 of the dk's as the mt so my priest doesnt have to heal everyone all the time. Now I need to figure out a tank spec for 1 and dps for the other 3. Man this is going to take awhile to learn.

[BigSmitty]

As long as you spec one DK into unholy deep enough for Unholy Aura (increases party/raid movement speed by 15% at 2/2) then you wouldn't necessarily need to spec all of them for the 17 points required for the 20% individual movement speed increase from On A Pale Horse. Of course OAPH also decreases stun/fear duration by 20% so if PvP is your thing, then it would be a wise choice. Personally I never go over 41 points in Blood after getting 5/5 in Sudden Doom (insta cast, free Death Coils) and Heart Strike. Blood Gorged is OK, and DRW is more for soloing. Boxing DKs I don't think having the extra DPS from a DRW is going to be that much, unless ALL of them have it.

As far as a "tank spec", there isn't any one tree. I've tanked with my 74 DK at 41/5/17(ish) with the 5 in Toughness in Frost, the 5/5 in the parry talent in Unholy to get my 20% increased movement speed.

[pinotnoir]

I am in the process of setting up my new team. 4 Dk's and 1 Priest. I dont know about the aura system yet but I assume speccing 3 dk's into improved auras would help the group. I plan on making my tank frost/unholy. The other 3 can be dps spec. If anyone has tips on how to increase the synergy using multiple I would love to hear. Unlock most 5 box dks, I dont need to focus so much on self healing talents. I have a priest to heal my guys.