Does anyone know the value bloodworms provide for DPS? I'm trying to make the points to put 5 into bladed armor and i'm thinking 3 out of bloodworms, 2-3 out of SoD. opinions? Is bladed armor worth it? it seems to be nearly equal to Abom for ap gain.

D&D is a DPS increase when AEing, but the aggro can be a problem with adds. I've been asked not to D&D when DPSing 5mans.

What is blood tap used for? I am trying to figure out when this ability would be useful. Only place I can see using it is in PvP when your rune cooldowns may go off track and you need to do a FU maneuver badly.

Yay! I just thought of another question.

This is more addon related than mechanic related. I can't seem to figure out how to configure Bartender 4 to swap bars for me when I swap from Blood to Frost Presence.

Any ideas on how to set that up?

It was relatively easily done in BT3 - but the configuration seems to have changed in the new version.

In the options, choose the bar, go to State Configuration, and set a "Custom Condition" near the bottom. The trick is figuring out what macro condition checks for DK presences, since it obviously isn't FORM.

It's most likely "Stance" as that's the condition used for things like rogue stealth, druid forms, warrior stances, etc. The hard part is figuring out what each stance means, as they're referred to by simple numbers. Usually, the number for the stance corresponds to the number the button is from the left on the default interface's stance bar.

At low level of gear, if you miss or get dodged(or parried if tanking), your deathrunes will turn back to their original state. For unholy and frost, that means blood runes go back to blood and can't be used for scourge strike or oblit/howling blast anymore, ruining your rotation even more. Depending on what runes were used and so on, you can sometimes blood tap to get back on track. Happened a few times tonight for me in naxx, so it's not totally worthless I guess. Also remotely useful while soloing, convert blood runes to death between mobs so you can unleash bigger burst. Works for pvp too. Not a very powerful spell, but can be useful nonetheless.

Question:

Can someone help me work out the math on exactly what gear level Glyph of obliterate becomes beneficial?

What seems to be the proc rate or PPM on Fallen Crusader? If dual wielding, how likely would it be that you could keep the buff up nearly permanently?

Napkin math ahoy:

An unglyphed rank 4 Obliterate with 2 diseases active deals 100% weapon damage + 584.
An glyphed rank 4 Obliterate with 2 diseases active deals 120% weapon damage + 438.

This is a damage difference of 146.

It's quite difficult to come up with an exact number for when the 20% increased weapon damage is worth more than the 146 extra damage due to the dual interaction with both weapon damage and AP. I could say 3100 AP as a ballpark, but that's disregarding base weapon damage altogether.

Instead, let's say that "If your Character Sheet lists your average white hit as 730.00 or more, then using the Obliterate Glyph is a net damage increase."

As for the other breakpoints:

Rank 3: 596.25
Rank 2: 381.25
Rank 1: 310.00

EDIT: My level 59 Death Knight's average white hit is listed at 428, which means that I can use the Obliterate Glyph as soon as I learn Obliterate (assuming I wasn't Unholy), and I'm still in mostly all starting quest line gear.

My guildmate's level 76 DK's average white hit is listed at 786.5, which is already past the last rank's 730 breakpoint. I think it's safe to say that anyone DPSing with a two-hander will see a benefit from the Glyph, regardless of gear level. Only dual-wielders and tanks will have to double-check.

Are the rough breakdowns of damage distribution known at this stage? What % of total damage comes from white attacks, strikes, and spells? How does this change for each spec?

My friend and I are both leveling DK and we have a question about a few things.

Both of us are spec Unholy 17/0/54 - DPS

First I noticed most rotations go like this:
IT -> PS -> BS -> BS -> SS -> UB/DC

With IT and PS interchangeable, is there a reason why SS isn’t right after PS since it does more damage then BS? Right after we cast IT and PS, we have 1 FR and 1 UR left to cast whether we cast BS before or after. Something tells me there is a talent that makes it worthwhile to cast BS first but I don’t see it.

Next why do so many people take Unholy Blight (51 Unholy talent)? It is really that good? It seems lackluster after they removed the disease counters it added a few patches ago. I took it to try it out but it doesn’t seem to do a lot of damage.

Thanks for your help

20% is a chance that this will proc. It doesn't mean that after 100 rolls you will have 20 success. If you would achieve such score this would be an anomaly. This will be true for large number of tests 100.000. Overal number of succes would probably be around 20.000.

I hope this will help you.

Random question to check my understanding of Rune Strike. Assuming expertise cap for a DPS DK attacking a mob from the rear, will rune strike ever be available?

Ability can only be used after an attack is dodged or parried, if we're behind the mob then we cannot be parried and because we're expertise capped we cannot be dodged?

@Shalymar

First : Rotation are PS-> IT -> BS -> BS -> SS -> UB/DC
Because in an unholy spec, IT damage is increase by Rage of Rivendare Talent.

Second :
Why we use BS -> BS -> SS in that order ? It's because of the Reaping talent
That means that in our next rotation, we will use a SS instead of 2 BS and give us a better DPS.

Third :
Why Unholy Blight ? In AOE situation, it's a lot better than DC.
I don't have the math close to me, but on a Brutallus-like fight, UB have a better DPS/GCD than DC.

Rune strike is available after YOU dodge or parry, not your atack is dodged. It means that if u attack from behind it wont proc at all.

It's handy in general when your rune cooldowns get messed up - you need an FU maneuver, you want a U because Bone Shield just came off of CD, etc. I don't use it all that often, and frankly, I usually remember in retrospect that I could have used it at that point, but sometimes I get the right confluence of events where I need it and remember to use it.

Blood Tap is also useful for quick AOE rotations to get in pestilence and two blood boils if you're killing a lot of smaller mobs. But it's certainly a very situational ability.

Actually happens on bosses summoning adds and stuff if you're AEing. Like Noth or Gothik, often procs randomly in there. Other than that though, yeah doesn't really happen.

How is the Death Coil damage calculation working? It says 208 damage on the tooltip and I'm easily coiling for 600+

Has there been any word on whether Rune strike procs 'on auto attack' events, such as BCB, Necrosis, Killing Machine, etc? My DK is not high enough to have Rune strike yet.

A lot of information to give out here for one post...

Rune Strike only triggers on INCOMING attacks. Luckily, when soloing, DK's strength gives them a hefty amount of parry, so we can proc it a lot that way. It does not proc on outgoing attacks.

Necrosis - Damages, never seen it dodge or parry, not sure about miss.

BCB - Procs can get parried/dodged/miss. It's like an extra attack (think sword-spec)

Killing Machine - This is a chance on hit to gain a buff -- has nothing to do with outgoing attacks and procs.