Mosg2's DK Manifesto

[tanknspanker]

I have some problems when i'm doing some dungeons with my dk paly team..
till now i could run them all as frost, and put 1 dk in blood presence for the threat,
however i did try several times to run 1 dk as blood but the frost aoe of howling blast is just to much to pick it up i guess?

i'm using the deathstrike blood boil macro

[BrothelMeister]

In Blade's Edge, I run under the bridge and rush the Opposing side's ramp from the back. Whoever is the last up the ramp is likely the target they didn't want in front, therefore I Deathgrip it in and go to town. Regardless of the class, the target will be caught under the bridge, way out of position, and u can usually cripple it into blowing defensive cooldowns, at which point you can move onto the next target.

[JackBurton]

Ualaa when we were discussing choice of race you mentioned something interesting. Using Blood Elves for the silence ability. I looked at the stats and noticed that Stomp has the same interrupt slash silence effect. With stomp affecting both casters and melee wouldn't it be the superior PVP racial?
http://www.wowwiki.com/Arcane_Torrent
http://www.wowwiki.com/War_Stomp

[Toned]

I went with blood elves because the torrent is instant cast and gives RP.

[Ualaa]

Arcane Torrent is instant and off of the GCD.
War Stomp is very fast, at 0.5 seconds, but costs a GCD.

Both are subject to diminishing returns.
Silence and Stun, respectively.

Off of the GCD is the determining factor for me.
But I will admit, melee and caster stun in the same range, is powerful.

[genghiskhan]

Well wouldnt the worgen/goblin racials be the best for their respective factions? Idk what the worgens racials are but the goblin racials sound REALLY GOOD for pvp.

[Shodokan]

Well wouldnt the worgen/goblin racials be the best for their respective factions? Idk what the worgens racials are but the goblin racials sound REALLY GOOD for pvp.

Human is the single best PVP race for this comp.

[Mercbeast]

Blood elf, in fact I disagree with Shodokan in that I think BE is the single best race for the comp.

5, instant AoE silences > free trinket IMO.

[Noids]

Dinged 85 with my 4 DK priest team over the weekend and had a chance to play some BGs and Arenas and had a few thoughts/questions to discuss.

First of all, the holy priest does great in BGs and OK in arenas unless focussed. The Guardian Spirit self cast gives some pretty decent survival and buys some time for the DKs to cause some damage and then wen the priest dies, Spirit of Redemption gives me a good 12s of uninterrupted healing.

I am struggling to put out a decent amount of damage at this stage though as well as finding it hard to keep the DKs up. I am still a bit slow at the defensive cooldowns for arenas but when I review the end of game stats, I have often done more damage, a similar amount of healing but gotten maybe 1 kill.

I am just in the crafted PvP gear at the moment with 3 pieces of honour gear and Crucible of Carnage Weapons all round. Is this simply a gear issue at this stage do you think? My guys buffed have about 110k health with about 1.8k res and most of the toons I am coming up against are around 130k health.

Did you guys find you had to farm a fair bit of honour gear up before you started becoming effective in arena or was it instant faceroll? :P

For what its worth, I have started levelling the shams up now also with a pally tank for PvE healer for PvP. When they are 85 I might play around with the pally as an alternative healer.

[Toned]

Gear issue ... 90% of your battlegroup got free gear with the 1800 tol barad...

Keep on trucking hit conquest cap weekly + do some BG's and you'll get there. Buy your Vicious Glad 2handers first.