Holy Paladin + 4 Frost DKs Arena Season 9 week 2

[Mokoi]

some stuff I recorded the second week of arenas, still in the blue crafted set of gear.

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[Boylston]

Fantastic!!

[Svpernova09]

This is great stuff man, I especially liked the 2nd team. Some familiar faces from < Cataclysm Fire Dept > you beat. Keep the videos coming.

[Hivetyrant]

Ok, I just upgraded my DK's account's, I have to try this.

Awesome video!

[Ualaa]

Looking good.

[outdrsyguy1]

Man I love watching your vids, such inspiration. Still trying to fine tune my priest/dk team. What is that mod you use for healing and the movable buttons?
Also, I noticed you have dark Simulacrum, is that in your dps sequence or do you use it on certain enemies? I've never even tried it lol, i figured you had to manually use the spell it stole or something.

Mind sharing your defensive cooldown sequence for when a toon gets focused?

tons of questions i know, but any hints would be fantastic. Specially in face of the HB nerf :P

[Noids]

Great vid. Just excellent to see how a successful DK team runs. My facourite was your win against the 2.2k team where the holy pally finished oom. That's the definition of pressure.

One main problem I have is getting the first target down in my games. My priest invariably gets focussed and dies and only about 50% of the time will I have a kill at this stage. Looking at the end results though, I have similar amounts of damage and healing in my games, although I find the other team normally has about 400k healing, rather than 1-200k as in most of your games (bar the 2.2k team). I am not coming up against highly rated teams, but it seems I am struggling for burst a bit.

What is your dps sequence. Are you using Isboxer to simultaneously call a bunch of spells to simulate a weighted castrandom as in Mosg's thread? If so, what weighting are you using? Also when do you ted to use Empower Rune Weapon/blood tap. Finally I didn't notice Hungering Cold going off at all. Do you every try and use this, or have you just found it ineffective?

Cheers mate.

[Negativ1337]

tHATS SICK!

Im going to level DKs right now since im bored with my shamans. What race should i be as a hordy?

[Ualaa]

Horde = Blood Elf (Instant-cast Silence, off of the GCD)
Alliance = Human (Free Trinket, 2/3 min CD)

If you want to be mechanically the best.
Not saying others will not work exceptionally well, but hard to beat those racials:

[Toned]

The 2 war DK melee team on ROV... Classic ... You see their cleave and raise them MOAR CLEAVE

[Mokoi]

@ outdoorguy + noids

I use GridCustomLayout for the unitframes (you see my pally and 4 DKs in the middle of the screen) and then Clique to setup clickable heals. I have 5 different mouse buttons setup as 5 different heals on my pally.
Dark Simulacrum is on my bar as a DPS sequence, and I use the same setup as Mosg2 defines in his videos (he has helped me with mine, and I with his as he is now on my server with a few other DK groups)

I find it useful, but I am not sure if I would trade it in arenas for the dmg anymore. I find it's hit and miss. Sometimes, you will DS a pally bubble, or a priest pain suppression or something REALLY nice, but most of the time it goes to waste, or you get something not so useful, like a mage ice block, that's not ideal... but getting 4x Pyroblast, or chaos bolt is nice at times. I think i will be removing it from my bars and getting more frost strikes instead.

Defensive cooldowns are simple at this point, I use my Icebound Fortitude and AMS on command on my DKs and a crazy O SH!T macro for my paladin, with all the healing stuff I can put off the GCD.

[Mercbeast]

Horde = Blood Elf (Instant-cast Silence, off of the GCD)
Alliance = Human (Free Trinket, 2/3 min CD)

If you want to be mechanically the best.
Not saying others will not work exceptionally well, but hard to beat those racials:

I think Draenei have to be in consideration now too, specifically for multiboxers. Gift of the Naaru now/will scale to 20% of the targets HP and it stacks.

[Mokoi]

Gift of the naruu would be nice sometimes, maybe a button to bubble on your healer and naruu them so u can focus on dk healing more.. Good idea

[Ualaa]

I do like that you can add 80% of the Healer's health, over what is it... 12 seconds or so?
Via the Gift of the Naaru.

That advantage of that, is the scaling too.
And the 1% hit racial is going to be decent for PvE and PvP, either way.

Not sure that it is equivalent to an extra trinket of the current item level.
As that scales as well.
But that is definitely a contender too.

[Mokoi]

If I weren't already Human, I would consider a change to Draenei, but with Worgen looking so cool, and having crit+ and movement+, it would be still a hard sell for Draenei

[thedreameater]

When you do an arena video, you should ask if you can open with this video:

http://justin-herrera.com/batman/

[Mokoi]

When you do an arena video, you should ask if you can open with this video:

http://justin-herrera.com/batman/

mmm.. no thanks, hehe. I didn't find that interesting lol.

[katsurahama]

When are you going to post the next video??

[Negativ1337]

When are you going to post the next video??

Wondering this too, your video really made me roll DKs and i'm loving them more everyday! You've inspired me :)