5x Death Knight Group, any suggested races? Blood Aura stacking == bug?

[suprafro]

Hey all, I'm interested in rolling up a 5x DK team with my goals being strictly being BG fun, i'm not expecting to win any arena matches with a full melee team. I think this team would be very amusing to play with all the crazy defensive abilities and self healing, especially if blood aura continues to stack (anyone have insite on this? I haven't been able to dig up anything concrete anywhere on this being a bug or intended).

Anyway i'm trying to decide on my races (must be horde) so I'm leaning towards Male Taurens as I believe they still have the 9yard hitbox which seems extremely value (correct me if i'm wrong here). Also Warstomp seems like it would be excellent, love it on my shaman team but it would probably be even more useful on this melee team to allow for easier facing adjustments in PVP. On the other hand, undead for WoTF seems like it would be a great pick as I have no tremor totems....likely a much more valuable ability over warstomps but right now my deciding factor of Tauren over Undead is the extra hitbox range, for those of you who are crazy enough to multibox melee in PVP how valuable do you believe this to be?

Thanks for any ideas, also can anyone think of any good reasons to sub out a DK for say a ret pally or something for any increased PVP utility? HoJ seems nice, but with the ghouls all having stuns mabey its uneeded... I do have level 80 shaman already so theres always the option of bringing one of those in later on

[pinotnoir]

I dont know much about dk but I made 2 cows 1 orc and 1 be. I have 3 cow shaman and they get stuck on everything.

[vindicated]

Orc is by far the superior race for dps. Blood Fury and Command for 5% more damage from your ghoul and gargoyle is huge if you're Unholy spec'd.
Other than that I'd say Blood Elves for PvP - the amount of silences/interrupts is ridiculous.

[algol]

Alliance: Night Elf because vanish, extra dodge.
Horde: Tauren because larger range, extra health.

[Multibocks]

crap I gotta delete my DKs and reroll an orc/be mix... I must be losing my mind I swear I didnt level all taurens, but then I went and looked and /facepalmed =(

edit: now I remember why I made taurens: they nerfed it, but taurens used to have a longer melee range so positioning didnt matter so much... so much for that.

[pinotnoir]

I dont know if it matters but the reason I did 2 cows is camo. With 2 cows you cant see the orc or be as well. My original shaman team was 3 cows then I added 2 orcs. You can never see the orcs following cause they are inside the cows. Many many many times people message me or say wow 3 boxing. Then I spread them all out and they are like OH 5! I doubt it matters much but its nice camo. I think thats t he reason why solo players would always attack me while 5 boxing. It always looked like 2 cows standing there.

[Mamut]

Hey all, I'm interested in rolling up a 5x DK team with my goals being strictly being BG fun, i'm not expecting to win any arena matches with a full melee team.

BG fun I would want undead for wotf. Fear was never a problem for my shamans, or my undead teams. My druids get in trouble quite a bit more often due to fear and only have a trinket and no second out. Also after killing a group of people i love to cannibalize (even if i don't need the health).

[Multibocks]

Hey all, I'm interested in rolling up a 5x DK team with my goals being strictly being BG fun, i'm not expecting to win any arena matches with a full melee team. I think this team would be very amusing to play with all the crazy defensive abilities and self healing, especially if blood aura continues to stack (anyone have insite on this? I haven't been able to dig up anything concrete anywhere on this being a bug or intended).

Anyway i'm trying to decide on my races (must be horde) so I'm leaning towards Male Taurens as I believe they still have the 9yard hitbox which seems extremely value (correct me if i'm wrong here). Also Warstomp seems like it would be excellent, love it on my shaman team but it would probably be even more useful on this melee team to allow for easier facing adjustments in PVP. On the other hand, undead for WoTF seems like it would be a great pick as I have no tremor totems....likely a much more valuable ability over warstomps but right now my deciding factor of Tauren over Undead is the extra hitbox range, for those of you who are crazy enough to multibox melee in PVP how valuable do you believe this to be?

Thanks for any ideas, also can anyone think of any good reasons to sub out a DK for say a ret pally or something for any increased PVP utility? HoJ seems nice, but with the ghouls all having stuns mabey its uneeded... I do have level 80 shaman already so theres always the option of bringing one of those in later on

I just fully read your post and want to make sure you DONT choose Tauren for the extra range on hitbox, it doesnt exist anymore (nerfed ;( )

and as for blood aura stacking I believe that it doesnt, although I would need some confirmation on that.

[suprafro]

Yeah I appricate the heads up! I did end up testing out the Tauren range, nothing real scientific but I couldnt tell any difference between him and the undead/belf. I did end up rolling them all as Undead...just seemed too crazy to pass up WoTF on a team that doesn't have a tremor field and arcane torrent seemed redudent/useless when we have strangultes and ghoul stuns

Anyway got them to 57 last night, spent most of the time with setup and what not. Having a blast so far, neat change of pace from the shaman for sure and i'm looking forward to some instances!

[FIra]

I think you made a good choice with undead. I was gonna do BE also for the silence, but having the wotf is a great OH SHI- button. You can macro /cast strangulate /cast gnaw /cast deathgrip in one button and it'll all perform at the same time with 1 press. Very useful for pulling anything in that you don't want to insta-fear your group. Only class that can still do something is warriors which kinda suck.