Heya guys!!  Welcome back to the next segment of Best in Slot Items for Death Knights!!  Today we’re gonna talk about the best Legs for your…well…leg slot that you can get for your DK.  For those of you who have been keeping up with the site, I mentioned we’re gonna change how we look at items for ranking.  And this is it.

Items have been broken up into 6 categories depending on your current Hit and Expertise Rating.  Please refer to the Hit and Expertise Revisited post if you have any questions regarding Hit and Expertise caps, their value, and how to get there.

PLEASE read the notes at the bottom of the post.  The notes are important.

Blood - Top 10 Best in Slot Legs

1. Leggings of the Honored  617.278 APE
2. Belabored Legplates  594.28 APE
3. Legplates of Double Strikes  588.385 APE
4. Staggering Legplates  585.26 APE
5. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  561.442 APE
6. Riveted Abomination Leggings  548.855 APE
7. Legplates of the Oculus Guardian  520.721 APE
8. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  511.839 APE
9. Leggings of Failed Escape  505.341 APE
10. Leggings of Discord  501.55 APE

Blood - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Melee Hit Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  588.385 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  550.042 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  522.292 APE
4. Leggings of the Honored  504.154 APE
5. Leggings of Discord  501.55 APE

Blood - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Melee Hit and Expertise Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  566.849 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  528.506 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  500.756 APE
4. Leggings of the Honored  482.618 APE
5. Leggings of Discord  478.903 APE

Blood - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Hit Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  588.449 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  550.106 APE
3. Leggings of Discord  501.656 APE
4. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  500.503 APE
5. Belabored Legplates  482.624 APE

Blood - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Hit and Expertise Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  566.849 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  528.506 APE
3. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  478.903 APE
4. Belabored Legplates  461.024 APE
5. Legplates of Bloody Reprisal  440.671 APE

Blood - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Expertise Capped

1. Leggings of the Honored  599.038 APE
2. Belabored Legplates  576.04 APE
3. Legplates of Double Strikes  570.145 APE
4. Staggering Legplates  567.02 APE
5. Riveted Abomination Leggings  548.855 APE

Frost - Top 10 Best in Slot Legs

1. Leggings of the Honored  578.592 APE
2. Belabored Legplates  550.318 APE
3. Staggering Legplates  526.814 APE
4. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  526.432 APE
5. Legplates of Double Strikes  523.997 APE
6. Riveted Abomination Leggings  510.065 APE
7. Legplates of the Oculus Guardian  496.603 APE
8. Leggings of Failed Escape  487.603 APE
9. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  478.397 APE
10. Leggings of Discord  474.485 APE

Frost - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Melee Hit Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  523.997 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  512.128 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  496.096 APE
4. Leggings of the Honored  493.386 APE
5. Leggings of Discord  474.485 APE

Frost - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Melee Hit and Expertise Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  522.269 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  510.4 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  494.368 APE
4. Leggings of the Honored  491.658 APE
5. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  462.365 APE

Frost - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Hit Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  523.997 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  512.128 APE
3. Leggings of Discord  474.485 APE
4. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  464.093 APE
5. Belabored Legplates  449.35 APE

Frost - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Hit and Expertise Capped

1. Legplates of Double Strikes  522.269 APE
2. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  510.4 APE
3. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  462.365 APE
4. Belabored Legplates  447.622 APE
5. Infectious Skitterer Leggings  445.738 APE

Frost - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Expertise Capped

1. Leggings of the Honored  578.112 APE
2. Belabored Legplates  549.838 APE
3. Staggering Legplates  526.334 APE
4. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  525.76 APE
5. Legplates of Double Strikes  523.517 APE

Unholy – Top 10 Best in Slot Legs

1. Leggings of the Honored  572.251 APE
2. Staggering Legplates  538.815 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  536.211 APE
4. Riveted Abomination Leggings  521.976 APE
5. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  508.347 APE
6. Legplates of the Oculus Guardian  489.948 APE
7. Legplates of Double Strikes  476.721 APE
8. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  462.991 APE
9. Leggings of Failed Escape  454.679 APE
10. Leggings of Discord  439.275 APE

Unholy - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Melee Hit Capped

1. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  494.529 APE
2. Legplates of Double Strikes  476.721 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  471.237 APE
4. Leggings of the Honored  470.149 APE
5. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  449.173 APE

Unholy - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Melee Hit and Expertise Capped

1. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  491.361 APE
2. Legplates of Double Strikes  473.553 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  468.069 APE
4. Leggings of the Honored  466.981 APE
5. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  446.005 APE

Unholy - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Hit Capped

1. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  491.361 APE
2. Legplates of Double Strikes  473.553 APE
3. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  446.005 APE
4. Belabored Legplates  429.597 APE
5. Leggings of Discord  426.184 APE

Unholy - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Hit and Expertise Capped

1. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  491.361 APE
2. Legplates of Double Strikes  473.553 APE
3. Heroes’ Scourgeborne Legplates  446.005 APE
4. Belabored Legplates  429.597 APE
5. Leggings of the Honored  406.525 APE

Unholy - Top 5 Best in Slot Legs: Expertise Capped

1. Leggings of the Honored  569.809 APE
2. Staggering Legplates  536.527 APE
3. Belabored Legplates  533.505 APE
4. Riveted Abomination Leggings  522.625 APE
5. Valorous Scourgeborne Legplates  506.125 APE

Things to remember

1. Please see my “Best in Slot Items” (BISI) page for a comprehensive list of all BISI items.
2. THIS DOES NOT WEIGH SET BONUSES.  I CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT THAT FACT IS!!!  I have not yet seen a good model for measuring the DPS gain from our T7 set bonuses, however the 4 set bonus is extremely good and will have a significant impact upon our DPS.  If you can attain 4 pieces of T7/T7.5, you should consider giving those items more value.  I do.
3. These items are weighted using a system commonly refered to as APE, or Attack Power Equivalency.  This uses mathematical formulas, and often times simulators, to determine how much each attribute contributes to your dps.  It equates item stat values into a numeric value that equals 1 Attack Power, or 1 AP.
4. APE means exactly what it says, this item has an equivalent value of x AP.  So if it says 1 is 519 APE and 2 is 492 APE, swapping from 2 to 1 would be like gaining 27 Attack Power.
5. Take everything here with a grain of salt.  If you had all of your gear epic’d out from Naxx+, it’s likely your personal stats will skew the results of “best in slot”.  Short of running a simulator, it’s nearly impossible to know what the best stats are for any one character.  APE changes as your stats change.  As one stat goes up, its value to your dps goes down.  Meanwhile other stats’ values will go up in value.  This however is a good baseline, assuming you have the equivalent best in slot items and have kept your stats balanced while gearing out.
6. Keep in mind also, my information could be wrong.  But even if it is, it is most likely the closest source of information to the actual truth about DK APE values.
7. 18 Agi is effectively 1 AP due to the armor gain from Agi (read: Bladed Armor talent).  Also keep in mind that Agi affects only your physical crit, not your spell crit.
8. Some stats can be capped.  You do not want more than you can actually use.  Items with a stat that you’ve exceeded the cap are not worth their “true” value anymore because you’re not getting all of the benefit.
9. 262.32 Hit Rating is equal to 8% Melee Hit (this is the Melee Hit cap).
10. 445.91 Hit Rating is equal to 17% Spell Hit (this is the Spell Hit cap).  The spell hit cap is 288.53 rating or 17% if you have 3/3 Virulence and Misery debuff up.
11. The expertise cap is 123 rating or 15 skill for Blood.  The cap for Unholy/Blood is 172.15 rating or 21 skill.
12. Your stats need to be balanced.  If you pick gear that always has +Strength on them, then you’re going to be screwed. These items are balanced around the concept that you do not overstack certain stats.  Aka, 4% hit and 3000 AP is bad.  But so is 15% hit and 1500 AP.  Sticking with these item lists will usually avoid that however.
13. If you don’t agree you should seriously take a moment to stop and think about what factual data you have to back up that feeling.  Often times the number crunchers out there find things that look wrong to the average person.
14. When gemming gear most of the time you will ignore the slot colors.  Only pay attention to slot colors when trying to meet a metagem requirement if you need to.  Otherwise every gem slot should be either +Strength, +Expertise, or +Hit.  These numbers assume you are using Rare gems available to any player.
15. For more information on the Expertise and Hit caps you should read here: Hit and Expertise Revisited.

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

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