Mosg2's DK Manifesto

[Shodokan]

All right, here we go with the Unholy single target DPS mash. I've played with it a lot over the past week and I went at it again today--I just can't seem to squeeze any more DPS out of an Unholy rotation. What I get with this mash is comparable to what I get when I play the character solo manually doing the buttons. To me, that's a pretty good indication that something is as efficient as you can make it. In any case, here we go:

/castsequence reset=target/combat Chains of Ice, Plague Strike, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation, Dark Transformation

/castsequence reset=target/combat Chains of Ice, Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike

/castsequence reset=target/combat Chains of Ice, Plague Strike, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil

/castsequence reset=target/combat Chains of Ice, Plague Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike, Festering Strike

So, here's what happens. I have one of each button on my mash lineup of seven keys except the Scourge Strike one, which has four copies. The Dark Transformation macro is on the downpress button. Each of these castsequences advances to the next step when any are pushed--Which means you're guaranteed to get a Chains of Ice and then a Plague Strike on a target from each of your DK's followed by spamming Scourge Strike, Death Coil, Festering Strike and Dark Transformation with Scourge Strike and Dark Transformation 'preferred' via one being on downpress and one having multiple copies.

I get about 9800 single target dps on the 85 dummy and a spike up to 11k or so once their pets enrage.

The problems as I see them:

1) This rotation does not 'automate' usage of your Gargoyle. To me this is something that *must* be fixed. We need a system that will first get 5 stacks of Shadow Infusion on your ghoul, enrage it and then only use Runic Power for your Gargoyle unless it's on cooldown. I haven't played with this at all--I think it'll be doable. Somehow

2) This rotation gets out of sync if you're on the target too long. Since the Scourge Strike macros advance much faster than the Death Coil and Festering Strike macro you will get points where you will Chains of Ice and then Plague Strike off of your Scourge Strike macro and then moments later do them again via your Festering Strike or Death Coil macro. In practice this should never happen--You will never need to be on a single target so long that both macros would cycle around I tried to fix this but lost serious DPS in the process.

3) Once the patch hits (and arguably even now) Unholy is one of the most bloated talent trees of any class. It's going to be hard to get everything you need (Endless Winter plus 3/3 Bladed Armor) while still grabbing all the DPS talents out of Unholy.

Thoughts?

you had a null setup to prevent that before, what happened to it?