Return of Mosg

[heyaz]

I agree with shodokan enhance is probably better for the comp. Provides same mastery buff and spell power and a much better symbiosis spell. Enhance can be tuned for decent dps and their burst is crazy.

Paladins won't provide that kind of burst, can't break aoe fear, no raid-wide freedom, etc. They have some other things like LoH, great stun (but you already have 2x asphyxiate), and bubble. There's a 10 boxer with 5x DK, 4x Ret, 1x Holy. He said the rets put out crap damage and offer little more than buffs and extra cc.

As far as unholy, you lose howling blast which is awesome aoe pressure and frost fever / snare on everyone. Unholy is designed much differently with significant ramp up time to burst and a more complicated rotation.
I tested it on one DK and the diseases definitely hit harder and since you stack haste will tick more, but I had no aoe snare and no hard-hitting ability without rampup time (obliterate). I played it solo quite a bit in cata, up into the 2200s or so in 3v3 and in BGs. It plays much differently than frost - the pets are pretty important and account for a lot more damage than you'd think, and also provide stuns/interrupts which are key for building "pressure". They always refer to unholy DKs as a pressure spec not really a burst one - the burst is in a window that you have to build up to, unlike frost. That being said, I still kinda wanna try 5x unholy just for fun to see what 5x pets + gargoyles, mass diseases death coil that's worth casting.

I just don't know if the "pressure" of all this will result in the quick kills you want when multiboxing. Multiboxing PVP depends not as much on building pressure and exhausting enemy cooldowns, but globaling people and providing so much burst that their cooldowns can't save them anyway. If you watch any arena (older ones, cata) where unholy is played, they use constant pressure to open up a window where someone becomes vulnerable to a kill. But I'd still love to see someone pull off 4x unholy in arena and use their constant pressure while staying alive until the other team completely exhausts their options. Cool, in theory.

Either spec can use anti-magic zone. And both specs have to give up Lichborne to do it.