Looking for advice on a new death knight team

[Hotnutz]

Ok so i went with the pally/4x shaman group for these new accounts and am close to level 55. I want to try out an all death knight team and am looking into going unholy for all of them, possibly switch it around later depending on how things go. Does anyone have much experience running unholy spec DKs and have suggestions on rotations? I am also inexperienced with the death knight and will be looking to gear them as well, I would assume for unholy i would want 2 handers and focus on str, stam, crit and haste?

Any suggestions or feedback woudl be greatly appreciated.

[Oatboat]

Use the search button up top right.

just searching Unholy DK i got back 20+ results

[valle2000]

I have 4 DK + healer and my favourite talent is blood. I use blood talents on all four and then blood presence on the one I'm using as master/tank. Frost presence on the other three.

[Ualaa]

My spec is Frost, not Unholy or Blood.
But my setup is here: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=37658

You'd have to adapt the spells that you use.
The runic power dump would be Death Coil, instead of Frost Strike.
Not sure enough on the Unholy spells you would use, but if you did the substitutions the setup should be mostly compatible.

The healer component would likely be very similar, as it assumes a Paladin healer.

[Khatovar]

I use one Unholy.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormrage/Lìfetaker/talent/primary

Stats rank (http://elitistjerks.com/f72/t125292-unholy_dps_my_friend_misery_4_3_0_a/#Stat_Weights) Str as king, hit to cap followed by haste.

I use a 5step toggle for my DPS spam, but you can probably combine some of them to reduce the number of steps.


/castsequence [nochanneling] [@party1target] reset=combat/alt Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Pestilence, null
/cast [nochanneling] Dark Transformation
/petattack


/cast [nopet, nomounted, nochanneling] Raise Dead
/castsequence [nochanneling] Horn of Winter, Pestilence


/castsequence [nochanneling] [@party1target] reset=combat/alt Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Pestilence, null
/cast [nochanneling] [@party1target] Festering Strike()


/castsequence [nochanneling] [@party1target] reset=combat/alt Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Pestilence, null
/cast [nochanneling] [@party1target] Scourge Strike()


/cast [nochanneling] [@party1target] Death Coil

[Acidburning]

how you like'n unholy?

[Khatovar]

I've always played Unholy. Or I guess I should say I've always run with Unholy. Only having to worry about Death Coils makes things pretty easy since I'm already dealing with 2 Ret procs, MW on the shaman and GC on my tank. I try to spew out DCs anytime I proc on any of my other guys too, so it makes the DK my least micromanaged toon.

I couldn't talk numbers, since I rarely bother to run Recount, but when I have checked them, my DK consistently has the highest DPS, even without dropping DnD. AMZ is a lifesaver when combined with 4 AOE heals from the rest of my team.

[smalltanker]

Man I am one of those slackers than run all of my DKs in blood mode all the time. Burst for me is summoning ghouls and then AFKing while they are up. Course my healer is a ret-pally doing divine storm. Blood is so simple I think I didn't even do a 2-step it was more of a standard castsequence.