Quote Originally Posted by Shodokan View Post
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.
With a boxed group of DK's it is all about howling blast. I don't think that will change with cata. Solo DK pvp will change up their priorities since HB isn't going to scale as well as it does now, however we can still achieve in excess of 100k damage with 4 or 5 DK's off of two HB rotations. HBx4 HBx4, Grip, plague/nectrotic, frost strikes to finish. That is enough bursty DPS imo to come into a fight in a BG and if the HB's doesn't wipe everyone who isn't topped up off, you start picking the healers off whom are going to be going into healing overload to catch everyone you just dropped to <20% hp back up. With the way mana and healing is supposedly going to work, that right there will win you the impetus of the fight and put your healers way out in front of the mana healing battle.

I am starting to think that the 4DK+healer friend, 5 DK or Healer lead + 4DK is going to be a solid melee group. Huge burst, crazy control, good survivability.