4.0.1 builds for 5 DK

[128z]

I have 5 DK 71 lvl.
Until 4.0.1 I was all unholy & heal was from blood stand.

Unholy rox because of pet (imho)
I want to go unholy now (4.0.1) but I don't see any heal in talents or stands..

Death Strike - to small heal..

Any ideas?

Maybe main as blood others as unholy?
Pls give builds with links if you have time

Many tnx

KR,
Denis

[Ualaa]

My DK's (running five also) were primarily Unholy.

Unless you go with Blood primary, you won't be able to reach Rune Tap.
And glyphed Rune Tap was a very nice heal.

I'm toying around with the idea of one Blood spec, to hold threat.
And then one Frost spec, for the melee buffs.
And three to stay Unholy, for the pets.

Not sure that Blood will be enough healing, without a healer.
Was messing around with Taunt, as a round-robin ability to move aggro about.
So only one is taking most of the damage at one point.

The other option... drop a DK from the team.
And add a toon that can heal.
And then you have a DK that can be added to another team.

[Mercbeast]

I duel boxed way back in 2008 with shamans. Just coming back, forgot my old l/p and can't recover it, and I am toying with the idea of a 5 DK team.

How viable in PvP will they be? I may drop 1 DK to run with a friend who is a Pali for arenas.

[Ualaa]

My team is a lot more fragile now, then they were pre 4.0.1.

I still have bandages and the endless healing potion.
But have lost the glyphed Rune Tap, which with 5x DK's was a 50% party heal every minute.

I'd think you would want some kind of a healer toon, as part of your 5x team.
If you were running a pvp focused DK team.

PvE we can round-robin taunt.
Have five very decent pets.
And excellent AoE disease attacks.

But for PvP, not a lot of healing.
Or anything really to prevent a given toon from being focused.

I love Path of Frost, which in PvP allows the 1x DK + 4x Ret team to play Stables/Blacksmith/Farm.
I love Anti-magic Shell on round-robin.
The new mortal strike like ability, which costs so much extra healing, will be fun.

If I was building a PvP DK team...
I'd probably go with 1x Frost (or Enhancement) for melee buffs.
And 3x Unholy, for AoE power.. better to take out larger groups of opponents.
But would want some kind of healer to go with the team.

[Mercbeast]

Ya, I'd level as 5x I think but PvP with 4x+healer. A friend of mine who is in a top rated PvE guild says he believes Blood DK will be THE tank in Cata for the foreseeable future as well. Which sort of runs against the grain of what I have heard. If you ran a 5xdk for pve would you stick to all blood? Or would you mix it up?

How would this compare to a paladin team do you think? That is my other potential group. I could end up with a 2700 rated paladin as my backup for arenas.

[Sephice]

all my DKs are Frost because you can Heal yourself very well and its just a great fun to bash a full ally raid with howling blast

the damage atm is just awesome and this team makes a lot of fun

[Mercbeast]

all my DKs are Frost because you can Heal yourself very well and its just a great fun to bash a full ally raid with howling blast

the damage atm is just awesome and this team makes a lot of fun

Is it possible to PvE with 5 Frost DK's or is that for PvP? Additionally, would you mind recommending a frost build?

[Sephice]

This is for PvP, in PvE you can try it with 5 Blood DKs ( Blood Parasite and runic Heal strong enough? ) but i never tried it

For Heros its just great to bomb with 4 Frost DK and one Healer, HB is just insane

With lower Equip try 1 Blood and 3 Frost Knights, without a Healer it would be very hard, best would be a Druid or Paladin

Check my Build in my Signature, but they are for PvP and i play in Unholy Presenz because i have enough runic power and its much better for disturbing and makes more damage.

And reforge as Frost with my build everything to mastery, haste ist better with obliterae, but without ( like i play ) mastery wins. And in BGs you have always enough runic power to cast some DCs on the Lich

[Mercbeast]

Do you setup macro's for each of your characters to cast lichborne? Or is there a more fluid way I'm not thinking about.

[Sephice]

Yapp, like with shamans single heal

Main 1: Lich and self DC
Toon2: DC to Main

and and and

you need only one round, then you are full health but most time it is enough to use deathpact in bgs or 1k, most time i have a privat healer @ my side and that rocks