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Blood Simple - A Consolidated Blood DK DPS Guide
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emptyrepublic
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Random people in heroics making odd gear, talent or ability choices really don't qualify as a trend worth discussing.
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I got wind of some new trend (if it is really a trend) in DK Blood DPS today while tanking a heroic. The DK DPS with me was speced Blood (I verified this with Recount seeing that they were using Heart Strike) but glyphed for Obliterate and using that ability as their Frost+Unholy ability in their rotation.
I find this curious for the fact that the Blood tree encourages you to use Death Strike as much as possible; Might of Morgraine comes to mind immediately as that also increases crit damage for HS as well.
I hopped onto the PTR to check this out. Even though my build is glyphed with Glyph of Death Strike I did some testing regardless. My PTR build is the same as my live build (51/0/20).
Utilizing my typical rotation of IT->PS->HS->HS->DS->RP Dump eventually leading to repeating HS I found that my DS crits were doing an average of 5341 damage on the raid boss dummy. When I changed out DS with OB in my rotation I found OB doing 3582 on average for crits. Now assuming I switched out the DS glyph for the OB one that would only bring the average OB crits to ~4300.
I'm curious what others think of this "trend". For typical Blood builds that have HS in the rotation I can't see a reason why one would use OB over DS even if you glyph for it since you will almost certainly have Might of Morgraine and NOT Guile of the Gorefiend (which would boost OB). Additionally the current rotation I use encourages an RP build up to maximize the effectiveness of the Glyph of DS where OB would not do that.
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07/08/09, 6:02 AM
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