Quote Originally Posted by remanz View Post
I've never actually pvp enough with unholy or frost dk.

What are their bursts like? Frontal ? or there is ramp up time (like wait for 6-10 seconds to get that 3 holy power up). I am hoping to use my main DK as unholy for the 8% sp buff and AMZ. But when I played unholy, it felt like an affliction warlock in plate, all chip damage.

What rotation do you use for bursting.
Frost DK looks something like this for me.... at 80

13k howling blast crits
12k frost strike crits
17k obliterate crits

So you can technically get off 4x howling blast + 4x frost strike +2x plague/necrotic strike. or 3x obliterate + 4x frost strike which the frost strikes alone are like up to 50k burst if you crit... and since you get rando crits from killing machines and it resets every target you can be damn sure you are going to do a shitton of burst. So that means a group of 4 dks burst on a target just with frost strikes is close to 100k.

So burst is very very high.

In cata i will probrably be specing into both slowing mechanics and weaving plague strike into things and not always necrotic.


unholy's damage mostly comes from scourge strike, diseases and your death coils, it is very much not a burst spec in my opinion.