Quote Originally Posted by Shodokan View Post
Watching for runes on all toons to make sure you can effectively use obliterate isn't going to be possible really, unless you make a priority rotation like

Obliterate > Howling > Frost strike > Necrotic Strike

But even then you need to worry about howling and necrotic using the runes for oblit... which WILL happen way too often. So in order to do that you'd need to play the dks like you would manually. Theres no way we can use things like "dont use howling blast if we have killing machine up" type statements in macros.

So what would you use the extra frost runes on? make them sit there? Ssing oblit also makes it so you are NOT using necrotic and maximizing the usefulness of the stacking of buffs. Obliterate on plate targets is a really bad choice as it gets double mitigation through plate armor and resil.
It would depend on the DPS feasibility of an Oblit rotation versus the regular rotation. I would have HB off the priority, I already have this key bound. Use it specifically for snaring. I would also take NS off the rotation.

Well actually I will quickly explain my setup.

I use R as my DPS spam. I use Shift-R as my PVE DPS spam (no IWT). I use T as my HB, I use shift T for nothing currently. I would change shift R to my oblit rotation, and set shift-T as my necrotic strike.

I now have on demand NS or HB via T and Shift-T. I also have my IWT HB/NS/FS/BS spam with R, and with Shift-R I have my oblit/bs/FS IWT spam.

I don't think it is a bad idea to set up your keys in a similar fashion anyways. Gives you more control over what you are doing with NS and HB, it also gives you the flexibility to switch between single target sniping with controlled round robin hungery colds, but also aoe pressure from the HB spam.

I can see an opener being something like this. Open with your HB+blood tap spam until all runes are on cooldown, making sure you get a big fat NS stack on the target. Then you hit empower rune weapon, hit your first hungering cold, and switch to your single target oblit/bs/fs rotation. Pop a second hungering cold the instant you see people start trinketing out.

You've come out of the gate and thrown down heavy pressure on the other team even when taking into considering the HB nerf on the PTR, figure close to 200k damage dealt via HB aoe(dependent on how many people you hit with it)

I think if someone becomes proficient with this sort of setup, this is going to take you higher than the the current HB spam zerg fest we currently do. This is because incorporating 4x well timed hungering colds gives us something we don't have normally. Control. You give us this sort of control and you pressure any dispeller you are going to lock down any melee constantly cutting their DPS down dramatically.