Warning for Daerwen: Grammar

◊ Kaubel · 01/06/09, 8:09 AM

Post: Dual Wield Builds
User: Daerwen
Infraction: Grammar
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Message to User:

A tiny bit lazy here. If your contractions had apostrophes, your post would be a little easier to read.

Original Post:

Hiya, I play a dual wielding deathknight for a while now and im loving it a lot. I got an idea id like to throw in here for discussion tho as I seem to be getting good results with it.
The general concensus seems to be that a lot of people spec 32/39, go blood presence, and do their rotation. What I am currently doing is running 44/27 in unholy presence. The main play style I use at the moment is to basicly use up my runes asap, then rune dump asap so that my next howling blast will likely have a KM proc. Since I blow my froststrikes as fast as I can to hopefully prevent this way that my next HB wont have a KM proc.

Basic single target rotation is quite standard. PS IT HB BS BS, froststrikes/HoW... HB PS IT IT IT Runedump.

I do this rotation in unholy presence so I can dump the stuff as fast I can, and the fact that if I do get a hickup in my rotation for whatever reason (dodge or whatnot) it is less punishing to my rotation, plus the fact that I actually manage to rune dump my runic power in time before I start flooding it.

Im still testing, since I only just now got a 2nd hailstorm, wether or not its beneficial to run fast/fast instead of slow fast. I understand your frost strikes might be bigger with a slower weapon, im trying to find out wether the additional KM procs leading to more FS crits, more IT crits, more HB crits will make up for the fact that ill have lower FS damage.

The biggest downside I find to this is that by being in unholy presence I lose ofc the 15% dmg bonus and haste rating bring down spell haste GCD since (iirc) its capped at 1 sec at its fastest. The upside is that I have a lot more time to runedump, more KM procs, and I have more room for quickly addapting to the situation at hand due to a lower GCD.

Here is the link to my armory, just in case someone wants to know my gear:
The World of Warcraft Armory

If its set on dual hailstorm when I log out its from heroic dummy testing, I have a torment of the banished in MH normally.

Maybe one of you more experienced in the art of blood presence - 32/39 could try this out some time, and see what you think?