Mosg2's DK Manifesto

[outdrsyguy1]

the spell pen thing hit home with me when I was on my priest and noticed that the shadow resist buff gave me a 24% reduction in shadow damage done to me. Then applying the same principle to frost damage I do to others, it's a no brainer since such a huge component of a frost dk's damage is frost. The loss of a measly amount of strength to negate the spell resistance is well worth it imo.
I'm still on the fence about hit though, I probably should cap it for pvp but i'm undecided. hate to lose all the extra str gems.

[Noids]

the spell pen thing hit home with me when I was on my priest and noticed that the shadow resist buff gave me a 24% reduction in shadow damage done to me. Then applying the same principle to frost damage I do to others, it's a no brainer since such a huge component of a frost dk's damage is frost. The loss of a measly amount of strength to negate the spell resistance is well worth it imo.
I'm still on the fence about hit though, I probably should cap it for pvp but i'm undecided. hate to lose all the extra str gems.

Not arguing with it for frost as strength is not such a winner as it is for unholy and as you say spell damage is also a greater proportion.

Saying that having the number of 24% from 195 resist gives us something to work with. This means each point of spell pen gives 0.12% of increased spell damage. So a 50 SP gem will give a 6.15% bonus to spell damage which for DKs at a very conservative estimate is 3% total dps increase. Considering it costs 120 hit rating to get 1% melee hit, SP is clearly better. Now using the EJ comparison between hit and str, even if str were twice as good (it is not) SP is still at least 7 times as good.

Back to Mosg's idea about the 400 resist trink idea then with numbers. If you are already running resist auras then the 400 will give you approx 50% DR against spell damage. If you aren't and assuming all casters are running 195 SP then its more like 25-26%