Glyph of Blood Strike stopped working with heart strike as of patch 3.1. That does sound like a good combo but that is likely why the glyph was changed back then.

Quoting myself since it's been a few pages.

I have an update on this. Mysteriously, a change was made between last night and today that now has Blood DK's proc'ing the Haste Valk instead of ArP.

Blizzard developers did mention in a forum post that they were going to change the proc on the Deathbringer's Will to be optimized for every spec that could use the trinket. However, I do believe they are in error with this particular change.

I just figured I'd update this since it may effect more people now.

Blood would(should) be hard capped on armor pen by late ICC, they likely made the change in advance as a means to keep it from being a useless proc.

Hi Guys -

On my DK I constantly run into problems where I'd like to pop a cooldown, but don't have any runes. My previous attempts to macro blood tap with the cooldown have been unsuccessful (I play with a relatively high latency for a tank (~200ms).

Is there anything I can do within my macros to add a very brief delay into the macro itself to compensate for latency? I often find myself either hitting my hotkey for blood tap -> unbreakable armor, but that it does not fire, and i have been gibbed (I'm looking at YOU, saber lash!).

I've tried a bunch of stuff, but nothing seems to work. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Draslin/Drazlin
Pally/DK Tank
House Darkforge - US - Garrosh - Horde

Do bloodworms still eat AoE healing from healers? IE circle of healing and wild growth and others? I know it used to but I am wondering if they have changed that in a patch recently.

Thanks.

Is it better to stay with the 4 piece bonus for the Conqueror's Thassarian's Battlegear set or upgrade the Helm and shoulders to the 245 pieces available with emblems of Triumph?

Bloodworms are last in the chain of getting heals. They won't take heals from players or pets for that matter.

Today Dancing rune weapon was changed to a debuff on the target of your choice, so I testd it out for a bit. I noticed one thing while doing this. DRW is supposed to do 50% of your damage, which it did with melee attacks, but my DRW strikes were hitting for roughly 25% of my DKs. I tested it out naked on the level 80 training dummy and in an instance.

Has it always been like this or is this a stealth nerf, and if it's always been like this, what's the reasoning for that? (I'd guess PVP reasoning personally)

I seem to recall my DRW strikes hitting for a high number in raids, i.e 4k heart/death strikes while I was hitting for 10-12k ish.

By debuff, do you mean there is not a Rune Weapon beside you, or a debuff like what the Garg does.

DRW does not get your talents and Blood Presence that adds to your attacks. Also if you cast a disease after DRW the strikes will be bigger. If they are messing with Blood's damage, it will not be down (Blood is at the bottom, but someone has to be there). Blood is not doing well in PvP either (Unholy is top there too).

The debuff mechanic is a bit odd. I'm not sure what gargoyle does as I don't play unholy, but here goes.

You now need to target someone to cast DRW (99% sure about this), and they get a DRW debuff, and you simultaneously get a DRW buff. It'll still be next to you, but it'll attack them straight away.

If the target dies before DRW fades, it'll continue acting like it used to, return to your side, do what you do, but the difference is that it'll stick to its old target until the target is dead or it fades.

This have ups and downs I guess. One up is that it won't randomly aggro some healer casting stuff and stay on the target you want, a downside is that the debuff will really stick out and announce incoming burst, and switches won't work as well. (PVP ups and downs). As far as PVE goes, it probably doesn't make that much of a difference.

As far as the damage goes.

I can't imagine what talents are the ones that make DRW only do 25% damage of your strikes, and still do 50% melee damage compared to your melee swings, but after checking out combat logs, it seems to have been like this since before. For how long, I'm not sure.

For instance:

WoW Meters Online - Combatlog Replay
Combat Date 2009-12-16

HS Average: 6,198
DRW HS Average: 2,079 (Probably popped every cooldown to make it to 1/3 of his Average, rather than 1/4, what most other logs show)

Melee Average: 6,425
DRW Melee Average: 3,392

DS Average: 10,317
DRW DS Average: 1,758

I can understand that raid buffs and procs could make a difference between your damage and DRWs, but like I said, hitting the dummy naked still gives the same results.

I tried searching the forum for a concrete answer, but with the Unholy DK having over 2000 replies alone, searching through that topic would be insane, wasting time and possible giving me a headache, so instead I'll resort it this way.

I need to know what Unholy DK's need to do during the first phase whilst fighting Lady Deathwhisper. I googled, but surprisingly I could not find a concrete answer.

The reason I am asking is because Unholy DK deal damage in 2 ways, physical and magical, as I am sure you guys are aware. Now, when people talk about the tactics, you always hear people say "melee attack x" and "range attack y", or "physical attack x" and "magical attack y".
However, the problem, to which I have not found a solution yet, be it simple or not, is that I don't see where Unholy DKs fit into this, as Scourge Strike and Icy Touch are spells for example and Blood Strike and Plague Strike are physical and those are the abilities we use most.
So what is the best solution for Unholy DKs in P1 in 10 and 25 man? Do we just soak it and have half of our attacks absorbed 99%? Do we attack Deathwhisper instead? I am not sure in either way. To me, it would make sense to attack Lady Deathwhisper, as we could deal more damage that way than on mobs that have half of our attacks deal 1% of its normal power.

Thanks in advance.