Infraction for Istik: I'm lazy and don't you fucking hassle me about it

◊ Kaubel · 12/25/08, 3:39 AM

Post: Unholy DPS Discussion
User: Istik
Infraction: I'm lazy and don't you fucking hassle me about it
Points: 2

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Don't let them get to you, guy. You keep fighting the good fight!

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Broseph

Regarding CE and virulence, you get very little bang for your buck from those two points anywhere that far down in the unholy tree -- everything is equally bad, so where you put those two points to get further along is a question of play style.

Night of the dead is imperative for unholy DKs. Check out any WWS linked on this thread to see how much of a contribution to your DPS the ghoul will be. On fights with AoE (which is most of them), your ghoul will die. A lot. For a relatively painless example of how bad it can be, I suggest running Heroic Halls of Lightning with a pally healer (lack of spammable multi-target heals). Then try to tell me with a straight face that the five minute cooldown on raise dead is fine. What's more, next patch it will provide passive 70% AoE avoidance for your ghoul as well.

This is not something that "simply being smart" can solve. In many instances, there will be AoE damage and your ghoul will be unusable without NotD -- period. Having a usable ghoul versus not having a usable ghoul in these cases is what provides worth far more than 31 AP.

Of course, you'd know this if you'd read the thread.

That's as much as I was looking for, a reason to use it. I didn't know it, and reading 31 pages takes too much of my time. I'm sorry that I don't want to sit here and read it for that long. Don't talk to me like an absolute moron just because I'm unwilling to read so much. What I did read of it pinned NotD as bad, I did not know that there had since been a revelation of its positive usage in raiding situations. Back to Corpse Explosion and Virulence, being hit capped so Virulence is worthless, would it be better to put 2/3 Outbreak, or 1 into Outbreak and 1 into CE. Again, I've read 6 pages of the thread or so, and as of then, Outbreak was considered a decent enough talent to invest in.