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Multibocks
05-07-2011, 12:58 AM
Alright I started playing WoW again and mainly Im interested in using my 4 DKs with a blood build and every one in blood presence. However Im finding if I fight anything that has a healer it becomes really difficult since their dps is so low. So either I have my choices for dps wrong or I need to think outside the box to take down double healer npc packs (im looking at you VP).

I'm doing a two step with:
Downpress: Death Strike
Release: Heart Strike, Rune Tap (for survivability), Death Strike, Blood Boil and Outbreak (also mind freeze is going off round robin)

Now these are NOT castsequenced, they are all trying to go off on each press. I don't like blood boil being on there because its low damage, however I dont want aggro on my priest so I need an AOE ability. I also don't like Rune Tap on their, because it does no damage... but it makes for brainless healing. Any suggestions?

Usually it's never a mana problem with the priest. Those stupid double healer packs are f'in ridiculous in that they heal fast, heal 3/4 health and the add with the AoE stun going off doesnt help. I did get past one pack by using Army on all 4 and getting lucky but thats a long cooldown to wait for between packs.

Ualaa
05-07-2011, 01:37 AM
I would probably have Runetap on its own key.
Which would be glyphed and talented.
So you can use it every 30 seconds or so.

Death Strike is like Obliterate, it uses both a Frost Rune and an Unholy Rune.
I'd probably have that on its own key, with a single Blood Rune ability.
Heart Strike comes to mind, as that is one Blood Rune and can hit up to three targets.
Rune Strike is a good runic power dump for blood.
I'd probably have this as DPS rotation #2.

When you don't require the supplemental healing...
Or prefer more DPS.
Probably a rotation with more damage than the healing rotation.
Not sure what that might be, as I don't play Blood.

CheeseCake
05-07-2011, 05:47 AM
I Run a disc/holy priest and 4 blood death knights.

Cleared First 4 cata instances with this team first time as soon as ilevel let me in.
For double healers ive had no problems. Like in VP (also got the mount first time in :D )
VP double healers i just death grip one and either down him fast (always works) then straight to the next healer
Or run upstairs around corner so i can clump them all together and away from there lightning barriers.
Just about to hit 85 and the tanks do about 6k Dps, Priest only 2k no enchants or gems yet
So going to work on this when i hit 85

Setup i have is this.

DPS Key 1 Horn of Winter/Bone Shield
DPS Key 2 spam - setup isboxer so this key goes through Shift+1 - Shift + 7
On them i have
Death strike,
Heart strike,
Rune Strike,
Vampiric Blood/Magic Shield/Trinkets,
Dancing Rune Weapon
Mind Freeze 2.5 sec round robin
Taunt 4.0 sec round robin

Dps 3 spam is my IWT Key through ixboxer
I keep IWT key on its own because it caused me alot of problems having it amongst my dps (in another thread)

DPS 4 Blood Tap/ Rune Tap

DPS 5 Lichborne/ Death Coil

Keys 7-9 the long CDs

The Priest on DPS 2 spam does Prayer of mending on [target=targettarget] macro
Along with Holy fire and smite

My Razor Naga mouse keys are all setup for the Healer with one set to spam Raise Ally (DKs)

Using Grid for heals left click renew, Right click Heal - Shift clicks are cures
Key 1 Follow
Key 2 Inner Focus/Greater Heal (free Heal) (Mouse over)
Key 3 Prayer of Healing
Key 4 Penance (mouse over macro)
Key 5 Shield
Key 6 Divine Hymn
Other keys for standard things

DKs Glyphs
Prime
Death Strike
Rune Strike
Death Coil
(Heart Strike is also an option)

Major:
Rune Tap
Vampiric Blood
Death Grip (Going to change this to magic-shield)

Minor:
Blood Tap
Resilient Grip
Horn of Winter

Priest Disc Glyphs
Prime:
Prayer of Healing
Penance
Power Word Barrier

Major:
Divine Accuracy
Prayer of Mending
Holy Nova

Minor:
Levitate
Fading
Shadowfiend

For holy priest its
Prime:
Renew
Lightwell
Prayer of Healing

Major:
Prayer of mending
Fade
Holy Nova

Multibocks
05-08-2011, 12:52 AM
Wow thanks cheesecake! That's alot more than I was asking for heh. I went to the dummies and yeah, Im doing about 6k dps, which doesnt seem to take care of the two healer teams. However I'm going to try a smite spam build for my priest and see how that goes. We have an in guild smite spec priest that does 5k dps AND heals for around 6k hps when we run BH. We'll see if the extra dps works.

Emo?
05-08-2011, 05:09 PM
Strangulate round robin on the DKs should solve the healer problem? At least it does for me.

Shodokan
05-08-2011, 05:24 PM
Strangulate round robin on the DKs should solve the healer problem? At least it does for me.

It can be hard to have the runes for strang with our normal spam sometimes.

daanji
05-08-2011, 07:53 PM
It can be hard to have the runes for strang with our normal spam sometimes.
Isn't that why we use blood tap + strangulate to always ensure we can silence when needed?