However if you do that to cast a SS, one of the two Blood Runes will refresh as a Death Rune because of BT. You can't cast another SS from 1 BR, 1 DR, so you'll be stuck on casting two BS's. But by the time those two refresh again BT will have elapsed and the DR from before will go back to being a BR, leaving you with 1 DR, 1 BR again. The only ways out of this are to either accept casting 2 BS's for 2 rotations or to wait before casting the first set of BS's or to cancel BT manually.

i should probably know this ...
Spellpower is calculated based on AP not Strenght correct?
what's the SP gain for 1 AP (before any talent bonuses are applied)?

Spellpower is not calculated from anything, all DK abilities use Attack Power to determine their final damage value. Various coefficients for different abilities can be found in the Theorycrafting Think Tank.

Picture a non ideal 25 man makeup with only 1 DK (DPS most of the instance 10 & 25 Uld), no shammies, majority of the time no feral and very meele heavy (wars & pallies mainly). What spec would benefit the raid more?

We went from 4 DK, 2 unholy, 1 blood, 1 frost, now to just myslef being frost, no longer are all the bases covered.

Is the FS glyph still bugged?

I believe they fixed all the issues with RP/Rage/Energy reductions last night with server restarts (I'm not sure if this happened with EU servers).

If you have noone covering the +13% magic damage debuff, go Unholy.
If you have no hunter proving +10% AP, go Blood.
If both of those are covered, go Frost.

No, you usually use this trick after that the frost and unholy runes are on cooldown, after double SS or DS or OB. Both of your Blood runes will be reset to Death runes ready to use. It is then time to use your RP dump and your next couple of runes are ready to use (should be bbFFUU). Try it and love it.
Just to be noticed, you can use it as well with an Unholy rune for the Ghoul Frenzy.

I did try it and the next upcoming runes weren't BBFFUU but rather BDFFUU. Fieh in the Unholy Thread however posted a simple solution to this. Create the macro

replace Blood Tap in your bar with this macro and then you can simply repress Blood Tap to cancel the effect. (Although it looks that way BT won't be cast and cancelled if you only press the macro once.)

so quick question with a simple answer.

Best DPS spec with heroic/naxx 10 gear? and best DPS spec with 25 naxx/ Ulduar gear?
Also blood/cold/unholy?

I am looking to make a DK tank/dps and wanted some quick questions answerd. Thanks

OK I am wearing most of the best in slot pre-uld gear and I am having trouble getting over 4.2-4.5k DPS. I recently ran a raid with another DK that was wearing similar gear as me and was pulling 6.5-7K DPS. I am following the PS-IT-BS-BS -SS RP -SS-SS-SS RP and eaither refresh or continue with SS. Does timing of the attack have alot to do with DPS or why would I be so much lower? We were both using the 10/61 Frost unholy build.

For one thing you don't have wandering plague. Look up the appropriate spec on the Unholy tree. Although that shouldn't account for that much dps difference. I'm assuming they're only getting 6k ish on bosses correct? If you're account for overall and you're doing naxx just drop DnD and just aoe like crazy. Also I myself found that the other spec was better when you're not in ulduar gear yet and and the 10/61 spec is only good or gets to be better when you get ulduar gear. Try out the blood/unholy spec and see how it goes. If you're doing raids make sure you're flasked and food buffed with the appropriate buffs (i.e might, kings, motw, windfury, warrior crit, etc) to maximize ur dps. Also make use of those speed pots before you throw out that gargoyle. Keep track of your diseases to keep them up at all times (frost fever, plague strike one, unholy blight). Best of luck to you!

With the current BiS gears right now, which spec gives the most DPS with it at the moment?

Is BP reset when casting PS (same for FF/IT)?

I believe so. I noticed fewer ticks of Frost Fever than Blood Plague while playing an IT spam spec, indicating that I was clipping disease ticks by resetting the debuff.

I'm having similar trouble. I am not pulling the numbers I should be, despite following the suggested rotation/priority system. One thing I'm noticing is that I have no found a mod that reliably monitors ghoul frenzy. Is there one that can help me keep better track of it instead of having to manually scan the ghouls buffs on pet bar?

Also, is there a point when the armor pen on ulduar gear makes Blood eclipse 0/10/61? In ulduar gear, does frost beat the other two from a pure theorycrafting point of view?

Another thing I noticed is rotations (especially when I expirement with blood) getting badly mangled due to dodges (or the occasional parry if the tank moves wierd on mobility fights). Now I trust the research behind the weights for expertise etc, but if it interfering with rotations to the point where I'm seeing more dps in Unholy presence because of faster correction, should I be gemming differently?

What is the attack speed, base damage and crit chance of the DRW?
DRW is too short to search for .

add up the EP weights and find out. Probably BoH but go crunch the numbers

Plasma Blast - Spell - World of Warcraft

The tooltip for the spell actually states that it cannot be resisted, from what i've seen Spell Deflection also doesn't seem to work in reducing Plasma Blast's damage although i could just be unlucky with the random number generator.

I'm having problems with gemming. I'm using info from BiS list, using stat weight, and gemming advice. But ask myself why isn't a [Enchanted Tear] used instead of [Sovereign Twilight Opal] ?

[Enchanted Tear]: (6*2.89) + (6*1.37) = 25.56
[Sovereign Twilight Opal]: 8*2.89 = 23.13

Also isn't [Relentless Earthsiege Diamond] better than [Chaotic Skyflare Diamond]? (Keeping the socket requirements in mind) So as we will already have a red gem the comparison is 2 blue gems vs 1 blue and 1 yellow.

[Inscribed Monarch Topaz] + [Enchanted Tear]
35.6 + 25.56 = 61.6

[Enchanted Tear] + [Sovereign Twilight Opal]
25.56 + 23.13 = 48.69


Plus on the amount of each Meta [Relentless Earthsiege Diamond] = 28.77 and [Chaotic Skyflare Diamond] = 32.76

Ending in : [Relentless Earthsiege Diamond] = 90.37 and [Chaotic Skyflare Diamond] = 81.45

Sorry if i explained myself badly, never have been good at doing so. But my question is, Is this true? or doesn't Chaotic Skyflare win over Relentless?

This is something that has come up when the jewelcrafting changes wer announced (since most BiS lists generally assume Jewelcrafting prismatic gems). For Blood and perhaps Frost at least a Relentless/Tear combination might pull ahead, due to how much is damge is affected by phsyical crit and how beneficial crit is. For Unholy it depends largely on the potential socket bonus you would get from socketing the second Sovereign Twilight Opal, since for that spec 2 strength is superior to 6 agility. But even for Frost and Blood socket bonuses must be taken into account to get a conclusive decision.

Can pets attacking a boss from the front that I'm tanking cause the boss to parry-haste?

FotFF has up to 100% uptime depending on the fight. Greatness is still better.