Archive for January 23rd, 2009

23
Jan

Preliminary Blood Spec for 3.0.8

   Posted by: Skeleton Jack    in Rotations, Specs

Heya guys!!  So I was hoping to get something quick sorted out for you guys, but this is a bit more in depth.  So I’m giving you the preliminary specs to play with.  Hopefully I can nail this stuff down by the end of Saturday.

51/0/20

This is your basic new Blood spec.  The rotation is a tad bit weird.

OB -> IT -> PS -> HS -> HS  (Opening rotation never used again once this is started)

HS -> HS -> HS -> HS -> OB

IT -> PS -> HS -> HS -> HS -> HS

HS -> HS -> OB -> IT -> PS

You basically repeat the 2nd – 4th lines over and over.  The first line is only when starting off.  Always work in DC’s when you can.

 

51/0/20

This is your brand spanking new disease-less Blood spec.

HS -> HS -> OB -> OB

HSx6

Repeat these two lines, always using SD procs when possible.

 

51/13/7

What about the old tried and true?  This just doesn’t scale as well.  While it works, it doesn’t win anymore.  But it is still viable, just it won’t be the best.

 

Overall I am very unhappy with Blood so far.  It is GCD starved and struggles, imo, to play well.  Time will tell, but this spec does competitive 2H damage now in the 5k range.  Initially testing did about 2800 DPS on a Test Dummy for me (keeping in mind I did about 3k with both Unholy and Frost testing).  But the GCD starvation was so painful I doubt that I’d ever use this spec personally, except to toy with the disease-less one for giggles.

When I have more information, and can nail down some variables better, I will get a formal post up.  Since I’ve never really played Blood, part of the delay comes from me testing rotations and learning them.  The GCD starvation and my personal muscle memory are not happy with these new Blood rots.  Heh.

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

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23
Jan

Current research and the DW/Blood specs for 3.0.8

   Posted by: Skeleton Jack    in Coming Soon

Heya guys!!  I’m doing some research atm for Blood and it’s looking like I’ll have two specs (one with 2 variations) for you guys.  There doesn’t seem to be a clear winner atm, but I do have something interesting to note for you.  One of these specs is doing 5k+ DPS on Patchwerk without ever using one disease.  Pretty swanky eh?!?!  Don’t get too excited though as it’s likely Blizz will attempt to nerf this later on because DK’s “are supposed to use diseases.”

I have not delved into DW specs yet, but that’s mostly because I am sinking myself into Blood atm.  That being said however, don’t expect a new DW spec post until next week.  Since I cannot test this one myself, I want to wait until people have had at least 2 weeks of testing minimum in Naxx25 to see what is and is not working properly.

Also I will hopefully have some new data for you guys in the upcoming weeks on new and improved leveling specs and pointers for DK’s in the 3.0.8 environment.  I will be playing Skeletonjill some and plan to try out various specs and tell you what works well and why.

I’ll have a Blood 3.0.8 spec and rotation up later on this evening hopefully.  I need to get on WoW and do some testing still as I don’t exactly like some of what I’m reading about Blood.  But I can tell you already that most of what I have read and seen already indicates that Test Dummy testing (which is never reliable) is even less reliable than normal for Blood as it is much more heavily buff/debuff dependent. 

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

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