DK + 4 Ret Tips n Tricks

[suprafro]

The DK defensive cooldowns are almost all off GCD with a few exceptions like death pact and bone shield, so I just have a single emergency button that looks like this on my DK:

/cast anti-magic shell
/cast icebound fortitude
/cast runetap
/cast vampiric blood
/cast empower rune weapon
/cast mark of blood

AMS is guarenteed to to cast on the second press if it doesnt occur on the first, also I almost always have DPS targetted on my DK until it's clean up time so I find this a good place to include mark of blood as well. As it attempts to use 2 blood rune abilities before empowered rune weapon it also brings up bladebarrier if it wasnt up already.

Mabey not an ideal solution to all situations, but a pretty decent comprimse imo. Any other suggestions or ideas for this? You could put blood tap here, or exclude empower rune weapon i suppose. I currently combo blood tap with strangulate

Also im currious how you guys are using your DK abilities? Currently I have my rune abilties in a castsequence on my main spam button as:

/castsequence reset=3 Chains of Ice, Death Strike, Pestilence, Blood Strike
/cast !rune strike

I exclude plague strike as it leaves me with a spare death rune in every rotation to use for a manually cast chains of ice when needed

this same key controlls my default spam sequence for my rets

and then another key which will use yro rockets + death coil on the dk and hammer of wrath on the rets