Mosg2's DK Manifesto

[JackBurton]

http://elitistjerks.com/f72/t110296-...3_stereo_love/

Worgen
The fact that they’re new is irrelevant; Worgen have, hands down, the best PvE racials of any Alliance (or, debatably, any) race. Visciousness provides a passive 1% crit, while Darkflight gives the utility of a 40% speed sprint every 3 minutes. The two just cannot be beat, and their value isn’t dependent on using a specific weapon type or gearing around a special stat cap.

Goblin
It shouldn’t come as any huge surprise that Goblins, being a brand new race, are much better than average. 1% increased attack/cast speed is quite decent, and a resource-free nuke (or, alternatively, blink) on a 2 minute cooldown is free dps, pure and simple. Easily the best horde race for Frost, although the competition isn’t exactly stellar, and they would easily lose out to Worgen and, potentially, Draenei.

Orc
Orcs are decent, but nothing stellar. 3 expertise when using an axe, 5% pet damage, and a 15s boost to AP every 2 minutes. Although that may all look good on paper, when you consider that the expertise boost is based on weapon itemization available, the pet boost is essentially meaningless for us, and the AP cooldown scales with level (1170 at 85) and not gear... well, it's nothing too special to say the least. Still, second best is better than last, and Orcs handily beat the rest of the horde races.

[Noids]

I chose gnomes for my DKs.

The logical part of this choice is the trinket free racial to escape snares which is sweet for melee classes.

The illogical part is the joy of seeing 4 small specs moving to and swarming a massive tauren and one shotting them :P

I do likt the fact that gnomes are slightly harder to click target in PvP also, but with arena bars this is negligible really.

I would suggest picking a race you enjoy playing rather than purely based on racials. In effect racials really only make 1% difference at best.

[Mercbeast]

http://elitistjerks.com/f72/t110296-...3_stereo_love/

Worgen
The fact that they’re new is irrelevant; Worgen have, hands down, the best PvE racials of any Alliance (or, debatably, any) race. Visciousness provides a passive 1% crit, while Darkflight gives the utility of a 40% speed sprint every 3 minutes. The two just cannot be beat, and their value isn’t dependent on using a specific weapon type or gearing around a special stat cap.

Goblin
It shouldn’t come as any huge surprise that Goblins, being a brand new race, are much better than average. 1% increased attack/cast speed is quite decent, and a resource-free nuke (or, alternatively, blink) on a 2 minute cooldown is free dps, pure and simple. Easily the best horde race for Frost, although the competition isn’t exactly stellar, and they would easily lose out to Worgen and, potentially, Draenei.

Orc
Orcs are decent, but nothing stellar. 3 expertise when using an axe, 5% pet damage, and a 15s boost to AP every 2 minutes. Although that may all look good on paper, when you consider that the expertise boost is based on weapon itemization available, the pet boost is essentially meaningless for us, and the AP cooldown scales with level (1170 at 85) and not gear... well, it's nothing too special to say the least. Still, second best is better than last, and Orcs handily beat the rest of the horde races.

Gotta disagree here. Any melee class that can be BE, should be BE. You ask on arena junkies or any "hardcore" WoW PvP'r and they will tell you the same. Arcane torrent is the premier racial pvp ability for a melee class.

[Mercbeast]

Got my PvP 2h swords tonight. I'm sitting around 3k resil on my DK's and 3.5k on my Paladin (just straight stacking resil atm).

I still have plenty of room for improvement play wise, but I am going to make an earnest attempt this week to push to my rating limit.

Starting to learn what to do and what not to do. I HATE blades edge and dalaran arenas, they are a massive handicap for melee boxing.

One tip I would like to pass on that I have found to be extremely useful is this.

When you are about to engage with the enemy, don't spam your IWT DPS spam, instead fire off your blood tap, then hit a hotkey bound for HB 3x as fast as possible, then hit your rune reset and fire off 2 more. While you are doing this, have your DK's follow you and run away from the other team. The key to this is to catch a minimum of 2 or 3 people in the majority of your HB's.

Most healers will go into panic mode and not be able to handle the fact most of their team just went from full to dead or <20% hp in a matter of 5 or 6s. I like to target what I think is the primary healer if possible because they will focus on healing themselves while you can quickly mop up any DPS that is near death.

This has been my most successful opening move and when I catch more than 2 people in the HB barrage I have not lost.

It is a pretty effective kite tactic and allows you to unload as much DPS as possible before the fight really even begins.