Comments on: 3.2 Questions and Answers by SJ, Part 1

By: coolwind

coolwind — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:07:01 +0000

hopefully I am not frustrating you with these ?noobs? questions. I did try reading throughout your site, but couldn?t really find a place where explained this in detail.
I have a problem understanding the rotation you have bellow for blood tanking spec:

Rotation: PS ? IT – HS ? HS – DS – RS/RP // DS – DS ? HS ? HS – RS/RP
Priority System: Diseases (BP + FF) > MaxRP-Dump > DS > BS > RS > DC.
Few of things I didn?t understand:

1- RS/RP ??? I know this means Runic Strike and Runic Power, but how do I do this in action?
2- MaxRP-Dump??? How do I do this in action?
3- Priority system and the rotation doesn?t seem to match. Do I do the priority system items first and then do the rotation or vice versa or when and how do I do them in action?

Thanks

By: Yaly

Yaly — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:53:14 +0000

Hi, there.

I am Glad you pulled out some Numbers for DW Frost, Blood and OB Unholy DK´s, but i dont think u meantioned that most of the DK´s have 4P t8,5 with a fairly strong Bonus for Blood DK and noone at this time has an 4P t9. (This and the New Sigil of Virulence will probably change some Numbers on Unholy in the Future)

I hope, I didn´t miss anything.

Have u done some Raid- testing for the new Sigil allready?

By: Kevon

Kevon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:02:03 +0000

when will you be able to post the new pvp spec for Dks… ? thx for everything btw

By: Raww

Raww — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:26:12 +0000

Jack, when do you plan on adding any of the new gear from 3.2 into the Best in Slot page? Appreciate the work. Thanks.

By: Knever

Knever — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:37:15 +0000

Hi SJ,

I am DW Frost spec doing heroics etc pulling btwn 4-5k… I am using a fast /slow combo (just b/c not two slows yet) If i have one slow and one fast would the slow be better in my OH or my MH????

Thanks!

By: SA

SA — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:39:30 +0000

Can Someone plz read The “SA” post about 5 posts up,On malee miss % upon a closer inspection of recount, prefferablly someone thats going to read the whole post & has Knowledge On Dw mech’s for DK. why the hell am I getting 10-14% mallee miss rate. yeh Hit capped, Exp is around 18 ’suggested’ by sj but could be better? Would just appreciate Know were & why I am expereincing this malee miss %. plz I’ll take any advice I can get.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:47:24 +0000

Hi, can you guys post lvling spec i just made a DK and was wondering which spec should i lvl with. Im lvl 58 today.thanks.

By: =-/

=-/ — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:09:21 +0000

What Build do you think is best? When you Posted for the 3.1 Builds you said that you thought Unholy seems like the best Raiding Build or somthing around those lines.

By: Caedos

Caedos — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:59:07 +0000

After doing quite a bit of dps testing in Naxx and Ulduar on the Frost DW specs, I found that white dmg was doing a surprisingly small % of my dmg. I’m at 289 Hit, and Expertise cap with 35% self-buffed crit, but Melee seems to fall far behind Oblit and Frost Strike.

That being the case, I wasn’t even getting close to a 1-1% Point per dmg on Necrosis on BcB, so I decided to modify my spec and rotation and came up with something interesting.

I’m now using a Frost DW spec featuring more into Blood, for Bladed Armor and Dark Conviction, and 3 in Frost for Virulence. My glyphs are HB, Oblit, and FS.

The dmg output is surprisingly high, and I usually run around 65-75% crit on Oblit and FS. The rotation ignores Plague Strike, and refreshes the disease through Howling Blast, like many Pre-3.1 2h Frost Specs.

I know you mentioned that “If you play a DK now, and don?t use two diseases, then you?re nerfing your DPS.” but I was wondering if you’d like to give this spec a shot and see how it scales, I find the rotation fairly easy and slightly OP, I’m getting consistent 5-6k on bosses, and 9-14k on Hodir.

Sorry for ranting, but I’d like to hear your opinion on it =)

By: RiceCake

RiceCake — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:33:11 +0000

This is not to say, link your dummy dps. This is merely a suggestion to look deeper into the damage you’re pushing and its relationship with the corresponding talents.

Just as the DPS simulators are a great source of raid dps estimation, I find the dummy to be a great source of my napkin calculations. You can actually calculate every part of your raid DPS on paper if you wish, but the simulator does it for you. I could technically theorycraft everything if I have the spare time, but the dummy sure provides a great shortcut where I could then base my more complex, more reliable calculations on. Want to figure out how much damage DRW provides? You could do the math yourself, or you can whack the dummy for a few minutes and get a great estimation since it scales with your buffs.

Blizzard and the WoW community has provided you with many tools to get more out of your game. How much you get out of them depends on how much you think intelligently about them and how you balance out which sources to trust in which situations.