Thanks a lot

Anyone else had issues with Soulshifter Vortex H? Sometimes it seems to proc normally after the ICD is over, but yesterday I did a full FL HC with a grand total of 2 procs. Testing on training dummy was confusing to say the least, sometimes with 3 procs in a row right after ICD was over then 15 minutes without a proc.

I'm seeing some significant positive results from using FC rune. In our most recent Heroic Yor'sahj, Unholy Strength healed me for 299,190 for a HPS of over 500. With only 2.6M physical damage, SSG and Swordshattering would only give 150,000 damage reduction over the fight-- Spellshattering would have given about 260,000 damage reduction from the 6.5M magic damage I took. Some of FC's heals are absolutely overheals, but it's overall value is very high, especially when considering that tank damage absolutely does matter in getting heroic bosses down (if you can survive a couple RNG hits with your spec/gear, of course).

On a side note, with respect to Crimson Scourge v. Butchery- if you want to maximize your DPS, absolutely use Butchery. Blood Boil hits like a wet noodle on single-target- poring over my logs, I need to hit 10 almost things for Blood Boil to be a DPS increase over Heart Strike, and it becomes a massive loss when considering the effects of DRW + HS. There's only 1 fight in the tier where BB procs are even a DPS increase. I recently specced out of CS (I always have used butchery) and back into Bladed Armor 3/3, and I've ranked on almost every single fight, Normal and Heroic since then. The other thing to consider with Butchery is the decay in RP you experience without it- with downtime and movement between phases in Blackhorn, Madness, Yor'sahj, Hagara, and Morchok (if you don't AMS and just stay and DPS the boss like a good DK should), you can easily start the next phase RP capped, instead of RP starved, which is a significant increase to both DPS and survivability. I try to keep over 50 RP at any given time, for an emergency LB/DC heal if I need it, and I still rarely have waiting time.

The reasoning behind using SSG is that it's consistent. SS may not help you at all in a fight, and FC procs might all be overheals, not to mention you have no say in when it procs heals or the buff. SSG Gives you a passive damage reduction that is applied to every single melee hit that comes your way regardless of RNG (unless you avoid the hit). Consistency is key in a progression fight, but perhaps that's just my opinion .

Regarding the tier 13 4-piece bonus, does anyone have definite knowledge of how much of the bonus is shared with the raid? I know, it sounds like an obvious question, but I ask because of how the druid 4 piece bonus works, which increases raid health by half as much as it increases the druid's but if glyphed increases healing taken by the full amount. Yea, kinda OP. Does it work this way for DKs as well? Or is both the health bonus and the healing received increased by only 50%?

You need to tank the small adds near the drakes, and then move to soak up the onslaught. If you have DPS dk's they can soak up barrage with AMS, otherwise you might find it beneficial to ignore barrage, for the most part. Taunt Blackhorn at 2 debuffs, and tank Goriana in a fashion where you still get cleaves but only one tank gets her breath. Standing at a 45 angle should accomplish that.

The DK 4 peice is only half... glyphed or unglyphed.

If you have Vampiric Blood glpyhed (40% increased healing on yourself), then your raid gets 50% of that amount (20% increased healing on the raid) for the same duration as your buff. So on Ultraxion for example the duration is doubled on both yourself and the raid, and the cooldown is half.

I have no experience with Vampiric Blood unglyphed as the extra healing has always been more important to me.

Unglyphed VB gives everyone 7.5% of your health and 12.5% healing taken. For 10 man especially, I don't see how adding another 7.5% healing taken at the cost of 20k+ health is worth it to be honest. It helps ease the CD requirements for things like Hour of Twilight, Onslaught, high orb bounces, Stomps etc.

The glyphed version does not stack with another tanks. Not sure if the VB was refreshed at its full duration or if the latest VB was ignored, but it didn't stack, that's for sure.

It is not 7.5% more healing taken, its 12.5%.

VB gives the raid +12.5% healing taken AND one of:

A. glyphed: another +12.5% (in total +25% healing)

OR

B. unglyphed: increased health equal to +7.5% of the DK's max hp

Sorry you are right its 20% (or 10% unglyphed),