This was probably asked before but I can't find a clear answer, does + spellpower gear boost the spell damage output of all dk spell abilities?

No.

Does anyone have the math on IUP vs 3/5 necrosis and blood presence? Everywhere I look seems to be completely throwing IUP bonuses to UP to the side without any math, but it seems to me like it would be reasonably close. 15% haste from UP is roughly the same as 15% damage increase on auto attacks, and 8 sec rune cooldowns means 20% more of other DK abilities, due both to more runes available and more runic power generated. Am I simply missing something?

The very aspect you dislike about this class is the same one that many of us love about it. I hope that there is never a clear answer to "which is the top dps spec?", simply because the theorycrafting / etc. is half (or more) the fun of this game. Variety is the spice of life.

And now a question: Is the Frost Fever from the Howling Blast glyph applied before or after the damage? (unfortunately the glyph has not appeared on our server last time I checked so I am unable to test this myself at this point)

What's the best min/max'd spec for single target boss dps in 3.1?

I just got the glyph, but I'm pretty sure Frost Fever is applied after the damage based on some non-extensive damage testing on the dummy as well as the timing of when I get the Improved Icy Talons buff.

Except blood is a 15% increase on EVERY ability, not just auto attacks. so 10% increase on 20% of your damage or 15% increase on 100% of your damage.

The 1 extra second one rune cooldowns still won't make up for it, except maybe in dual wield but I haven't been paying mind there.

I'm kind of lost as to what spec would be the best for my current gear in 3.1.

I got 4/5 T7, Jawbone, and NO Sigil of Awareness.

I got all the crappy blue sigils and the Haunted Dreams one. Should I go Blood+ dark rider? Blood + wild buck? Blood + haunted dreams? Unholy + Arthritic ? Leaving Frost out of the equation for now since reports are showing it a bit behind, the IT sigil got nerfed rather hard and I don't have anything better to replace it.

Can anyone tell me the amount of damage increase we are recieving from the Blood Gorged talent in the Blood tree. I am deciding on a pvp build and I want to know if the 10% armor pen from that talent is worth it (not including the 10% bonus if above 75% health). If not I am skipping it and getting the perma-ghoul from Unholy instead.

So basically I have to decide between the following talents:

54/0/17
Blood Gorged (Blood)
DRW (Blood)

or

45/0/26
Blood Caked Blade (Unholy)
PermaGhoul (Unholy)
Necrosis (few pts put in for filler)

Thanks for the help.

Question: where can I find solid, mathy information on how armor penetration (both from rating and sunder/FF) works in 3.1?

MMO-Champion BlueTracker - 116% Armor Pen only giving 66%!?!?!?!

Straight from the horses mouth, as they say.

The only bug I've been able to find so far with death strike (over a rather small sampling, 2 hours or so of testing) Has to do with the disease scaling of the heal portion:

At one disease, Death strike is healing for ~20% of damage done.

With two up, ~40%.

With three, the heal seems to remain 40% of damage, leading me to believe the talent was improperly coded to check only for Frost Fever and Blood Plague.

My spec is 12/0/59 atm and I have Cryptfiends Bite.

There is a weapon from doing those jousting dailys called 'Claymore of the Prophet' it has 186.5dps but with 67 hit. Getting this, I'd be able to change my helmet to something better from naxx/ulduar. But would I lose dps from changing the weapon and would a better helm like the 'Dragonsteel Faceplate' make up to difference?

Blizzard hotfixed it with a 75% reduction of the amount healed.

Still a little concerned about the 7% crit rate I am getting with it though. I even went to low level dungeons and started mashing stuff and was only getting that 7% vs the 22% I should be getting.

60 death strikes is _way_ too small a sample to get any useful data from. Also note that there is a ~4% reduction to crit against boss level mobs. Try a larger sample, like several thousand, if you want more useful information.

Does Bladed Armor ignore the extra armor gained from frost presence? Guildmate said it has a 30seconds pulse but after several minutes i have not seen any attack power increasement.

Yes, and your guildmate is right. Gotta wait around 30-40 seconds before it updates.

I was woundering,

Major Glyph of Rune Strike - Increases chance to crit with Rune Strike by 10%.
New DK Tanking Tier 8 2x Bonus - Increases chance to crit with Rune Strike by 10%.

Do's these things stack? i was just woundering would be abit of useless to use the glyph otherwise.
If they do it TPSing time!

D'r.

The short answer is not really. Most estimates put it as a slight downgrade, assuming 4t7. If you ever drop 4t7, then it will be a significant downgrade from awareness. Either way, you should pass it to a frost or blood DK.

Is it a bad idea to spec into bloodworms seeing as they seem to eat up chain heals e.t.c ?
If theres a thread or anything on this i missed please point me in the right direction please , thanks

Has there been any testing on which bosses in Ulduar have parry haste disabled? I was tanking Auriaya on 25-man, and she decided to hit me 4 times in about 1-1.5 seconds. With a few people dead and a lot of melee, it was a bit unsafe to have only the ranged group absorbing the Sonic Screech. It seems the melee getting parried may cause additional danger to the tank though, as either she has a thrash attack of somekind, or she can gain parry haste. We also had this happen at Ignis:

20:19:33.604 Tank's Devastate(R5) was parried by Ignis the Furnace Master.
20:19:33.604 Ignis the Furnace Master's hit Tank for 21559 damage.
20:19:34.045 Ignis the Furnace Master's hit Tank for 22729 damage.

2 hits in 0.4 seconds

It seems the rumors about parry haste being removed on a lot of bosses were greatly exaggerated, and it's still a problem.