Only reason people get 190 - 200 SP is Mage Armor, thats it, that is the only reason. If blizz took out mage armor there would be no reason to run near as much SP as we have to now or ever. Furthermore, I think its a extremely stupid stat for a DK to have to gem for or any melee type.
Last edited by Fat Tire : 01-18-2011 at 05:26 PM
I agree its a strange thing for DKs to have to gem for but in reality it is only frost DKs that gem for it and more specifically multiboxing DKs because we don't use obliterate in our rotations.Originally Posted by Fat Tire
Getting rid of Mage Armor wouldn't remove our need to run with spell pen either. Almost every team I come up against has either a paladin or a shaman both of which have a team wide buff that provides 195 frost resist.
I play unholy, always have and I have always used atleast 150+ SP. What I was refering to in my post was that wars/rogues as melee dont have to waste gem/chant slots on SP like Enh/DK do. Granted I only play 1 DK, boxing with another melee so ymmv boxing 4/5.
Last edited by Fat Tire : 01-20-2011 at 10:43 AM
Not only do wars.rogues not have to worry about SP though, our holy counterparts the ret pally do not need to worry as there is no holy resistance
I've only really played DKs in PvP since cata (not including the occasional run of leading my 4 shams with an unholy DK in LK :P) so I'm new to the whole spell pen thing. How much of your damage in PvP is done by death coil and diseases? Is the shadow portion of SS affected by spell pen? Considering how awesome strength is for unholy (ie. more valuable than hit even before cap) I would've thought it'd be better to grab it whenever possible? Obviously the cloak chant is a no brainer as there isn't a str one, but surely you should gem str over spell pen regardless of cap?
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