Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
Unholy would prioritize Unholy runes, the same as Frost prioritizes Howling Blast + Frost Strike.
Death Coil is likely your best runic power dump, with Rune Strike being your other option.
OK, what about spec -- 0/8/33 ? I think you have to make some hard choices in Unholy, but I think those might be necessary to get the zero runic power Mind Freeze.

I'm just theorycrafting here, but I guess I'm not completely sold on how awesome Death's Advance is. Don't get me wrong, for a solo DK, I am convinced that it is awesome. But, in a 4 DK set up with 4 deathgrips, and with Howling Blast appplying a ranged snare, was the target running away really that big of a problem?

The other problem that I'm a little worried about is -- if your target is out of range, how are you going to activate those Unholy runes to activate Death's Advance. It's not an unsolvable problem, but I can see situations where your target is just out of range, your Unholy rune refreshes and bang, you're stuck. Of course, you still have 4 death grips. So maybe it is more of a wash.

An additional concern is keeping diseases up on the target, because that's important for Unholy DPS, without refreshing them too often which would result in a net DPS decrease. I think that's a trickier problem for Unholy than it is for Frost.

On the other hand, Unholy Frenzy looks like a very interesting talent and potentially a very good way to increase frontloaded damage.

I'm really curious to hear if anyone has a good solution to an Unholy DPS macro/priority system that would be workable with IS.