[quote='Stealthy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1809 93#post180993]Ok, did some research about speccing further into blood, mainly to get Heart Strike for the ability to DPS more than one target, and found out some interesting info:

Hysteria (31 point talent) - stacks multiplicatively - i.e. with one Hysteria, you do 20% more damage, with two, you do 44% more damage and so on. With 5, you will do 249% more damage. The 1% life drain per sec also stacks, but you are also getting much more back from Blood Aura - assuming you're running 5 Blood spec DK's.

Dancing Rune Weapong (51 point talent) - If you are out of combat, and pop dancing rune weapon (DRW), and then target yourself and use hysteria you will get the buff twice.

If you pop DRW and then Rune Tap (glyphed) it seems that your DRW also casts Rune Tap, and everyone in the party benefits twice from it (i.e. 20% heal instead of 10%).


*EDIT* - looks like the DRW abilities are being nerfed in 3.1...so this won't be viable for much longer.


Brings up some interesting possibilities...

Cheers,

S.[/quote]Lol, there is a post somewhere in the video section where me and a few others went into much debate/data crunching over this... Lol
It's a good, but the risk it to great, and most of the bosses have a way of making it even more risky do to teleporting, stuns, AOE stuns, transformations, and just random odds and ends that make it very situational (low, that is).

Some more food for thought:

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/castsequence reset=target Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Obliterate, Heart Strike, Heart Strike
/cast !runestrike
/cast !Death Coil

Then IT and PS come back, they will be ready for round two, and the one that Obliterate used can be used for 4 heart Strikes. So you can setup a second sequence or just keep the first one going. There is a lot of playing around I did to get the perfect one for my group to do the best damage, I did a very good amount of spec dancing and combo dancing to get what I wanted.

41/20/0

Same deal, only, no Heart Strike, and you are subbing it for Blood strike. Also, now you are going to being death/obliterate and both of those make the Icy/Plague Death Runes, which means it allows you to make up some interesting combos that Castsequence is not really going to work in. So you might have to get more button happy than you want too.

Why did I skip Anticipation?
Because you don't 100% need it. You really don't. But you can drop some in Frost and pick it up. It will depend on your play style. When others watch my videos, they see my HP drop like a brick in water, but I don't seem to die now do I? Does it happen? HELL YES IT DOES. But that's the name of the game. Fly by, by the skin of my teeth. :P

Now, I did spec dance a lot, so at some point, yes, I did have ANTI, and I will have it in the end spec that I am looking at, it's not going to be 5/5 because there are other talents that I would much rather have.

I enjoy my play style. I like the random spastic moments of OHSHITEOHSHITE!...

Once again, there is a good general guide coming along that will help others in so many ways, and also, make it easier for people to have an excuse to not be able to find it and say that they used the search feature and found no such thing... lol, we all do it.

Life and Females are taking control right now, and, well, I like females more than I like you guys, so, lol... 8| I will get to it when I get to it. Till then, I will try and pay more attention to this thread and help in any way I can.