As a Frost DK, should i be dual wielding or sticking to a 2 hander.
Im guess im gearing for PvP because of wrathful being so easily attainable, but im not really hardcore PvP. I dont really run arena, but do a TON of BG's. I want to start raiding as soon as i can and will probably also run Frost in that.

I guess to simply it.
Which should i be using for PvE Frost DPS?
Which should i be using for PvP Frost?

For me i find best results as sv spec with explosive trap,
bigest problem or surval is lack of focus and bigest dps is explosive shots by using trap your lnl procs go skyrocket and you use all the free explosive shots making haste lowest dps stat by far. (if you have free shots you dotn need focus gain from haste)
I find mastery is not good in any solution as sv so that 2 k extra i just don't see it.

For me agility giving 80% more dps then crit and mastery and haste little lower then crit and for me as sv getting best dps gemming full agility with 1 agility crit and one agility hit for meta.
All hit needed come from reforging haste and nothing is reforged to mastery.
Cunning pet over ferocity.

PvE it doesn't matter. Pick one, whichever you have better weapons for or whichever playstyle you like more (1.0 vs 1.5sec GCD makes a big difference). Neither does SIGNIFICANTLY more DPS than the other, though DW frost does sim a bit higher in some cases.

PvP, DW is going to be better. Regardless of presence, DW Frost will hit harder than 2H Frost due to better scaling with your Attack Power. Plus you get 2 runeforges.

Chaotic Shadowspirit Diamond (54 crit rating 3% increased crit damage meta) is now requiring more blue gems than red. I understand that this isn't an enhance only change but it will definitely affect us.

Thanks mate, installing it now to test

On the ilvl 264 Wrathful weapons, would it be better to gem +20 str and +10 str/hit for the 12 AP socket bonus? That's still roughly equal to a 6 str socket bonus before buffs.

I can't find new rage generation formula. Please link to.

Damn me and my lvl80 mindset. Forgot about AotF. And CobraS. So ISS will be a dps loss then, as SS will be dropped from rotation.

...unless I am misunderstanding CobraS's 2ndary ability of increasing SerpS duration...Do those stack or is it more akin to ChiShot's refreshing?

Has anyone done any testing to see if the AI on searing totem has been improved with the range changes? If so, can you articulate your observations?

It also seems to me that gemming for all spellpower bonuses now makes sense. For example, I gemmed +20 spirit on T10 shoulders for +5 sp bonus. That allows me to reforge 20 spirit less, which will now be reforged mastery. So all things being equal to the hit cap, I end up with 20 mastery for a 15 spellpower tradeoff, which seems like a good idea given we have no itemized mastery on any of our gear at the moment. At 85, it will be a question of what sp is worth in relation to mastery. It would have to be 33% better in order to make sense gemming intellect instead in that case.

Also, maybe a word on theorycrafting in cata. To my way of thinking, when you had a finite number of choices with respect to gear, particularly about what could even be considered BIS, it was almost a binary decision. It's this or that. I have seen many instances when using the spreadsheets that when adding a new, clearly better item actually resulted in one of the stat's weight going down. So when this happened, it obviously occured as a result of a stat weight being pushed to a level where marginally, it was worth less. Kind of a diminishing return. Sometimes, the stat weight would go back up after hitting a higher threshold in that stat, and almost always, the stat increased in value in terms of dps as your other stats increased.

With the reforging option, there are now an infinite number of combinations with respect to gemming and reforging your gear. Has anyone put any thought into a spreadsheet that helps in optimizing stats? Not one that just tells you what x or y stat is worth in this setup, but one that helps optimize your choices? Of course, I would be happy with one that merely replaced what we had. Any sense of when there might be another model in the community?

I like the GUI.

hey i need to know what kinda gems do i need for blood tank and frost dps

for blood tank pve
do i just fully stack Stam gems or do i need any other types.
and where do i find gems that gives me 2 different stats. e.g (+10stam and +10 parry) cause all i can see from AH are like (+30Stam or +30 strenght)
can someone plz tell me wat i need to stack and stats are good for thanking. ty

for fost dps pve
do i need to stack all strenght gems or do i need any other tpyes.
and do i need agi and stam for dps?

and can someone plz let me know the best rotation for both tanking dps plz.
cuz each time i pull (when tanking) i pull with dnd and then IT on boss.. all my other moves are on cd or they just cant be cast because of no runes. all i have left to use is BB, DG and BC.

thanks.
Likliklicky Blackrock