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07/03/09, 3:53 AM
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#1306
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Glass Joe
Draenei Death Knight
Kirin Tor (EU)
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Originally Posted by Gort
As far as I'm aware, yes. A death strike has proven quite effective in accidentally sticking fresh adds to me in various encounters.
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Same here. When i was tanking the 3 drakes in Sarth3D, if our feral tank died, Sartharion always come to me because of my superior healing aggro compare to healers probably due to frost presence (but it was with the RIP blood aura + bloodworms + deathstrikes so a lot of self-healing).
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07/03/09, 4:13 AM
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#1307
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King Hippo
Tauren Shaman
Wildhammer (EU)
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Originally Posted by Myrx
WoW Meter Online - Combatlog Replay
Here's a threat break down on me for Algalon using all of my U/F runes on Death Strike regardless of if they're Death Runes or not. As you can see the healing component of Death Strike only accounted for 0.9% of my total threat compared to the 7.3% that the actual Death Strike damage did. Take that for what you will, but Death Strike healing is really not that much threat. I always have better threat when I use my Death Runes on Heart Strikes.
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Wowmeteronline don't multiply your healing threath with frost presence modifier. You was also bit unlycky with 85% overhealing.
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Slow, slower, shaman weapon.
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07/03/09, 5:32 AM
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#1308
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Glass Joe
Undead Death Knight
Sanguino (EU)
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You was also bit unlycky with 85% overhealing.
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That is not been unlucky that is your healers having you nearly always at max.
Beside that, i also think that for a tank the healing component on death strike is not that important, not "healingwise" neither "agrowise."
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07/03/09, 7:14 AM
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#1309
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Glass Joe
Orc Death Knight
Spinebreaker (EU)
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Originally Posted by Darkonte
That is not been unlucky that is your healers having you nearly always at max.
Beside that, i also think that for a tank the healing component on death strike is not that important, not "healingwise" neither "agrowise."
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I'd have to say I disagree 100% with the last line. I play unholy tank and my 3-disease Death Strike heals are around ~6.6k. I cannot undestand how instant near 7k heal can be "not that important", specially when you can chain up to 4 of them in a row if needed. In the current content there are so many places where I can/will help my healers (hard modes/speed kills require minimal amount of healers) with that: Hodir's Frozen Blows, Mimiron Plasma Blasts, standing in fire while soloing Ignis constructs and the list goes on.
I can think of numerous situations where we for example have had healer die for some reason and I've managed to stay alive with Death Strike healing (with ERW) and Death pact giving me 100% of my health back in 5 GCDs while a healer has been combat ressed. Of cource such is not needed if everyone always plays perfectly and RNG is never agaist us, but things do go wrong sometimes and for those situations Death Strike healing can be a very powerful tool.
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07/03/09, 2:48 PM
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#1310
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I find your lack of faith disturbing
Kroot
Orc Death Knight
No WoW Account
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Originally Posted by Darkonte
Beside that, i also think that for a tank the healing component on death strike is not that important, not "healingwise" neither "agrowise."
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You have obviously never tanked Vezax hardmode, where healer mana is a precious commodity and you need to go out of your way to prevent them from overtaxing themselves. Death Strike is one or the primary reasons (along with IBF) that a DK tank is used so prolifically on that fight.
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Originally Posted by Silmeria
See this is how engineers argue! Why the fuck we gotta have 17 page threads on how much Diablo 3 sucks I blame liberal arts majors
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07/03/09, 4:40 PM
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#1311
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Piston Honda
Human Warrior
Eldre'Thalas
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Originally Posted by Pitbuller
Wowmeteronline don't multiply your healing threath with frost presence modifier. You was also bit unlycky with 85% overhealing.
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I don't think that much DS overhealing is atypical, especially with high DS usage on a fight like Algalon. Even then, that healing is about a 25% boost to his DS threat (factoring in presence modifier, which, as noted, WMO didn't). In other situations, especially slow-hitting bosses where you can get more effective use out of your self-heals (I sometimes do over 20% of my own healing on XT hard 10m), it provides a lot of threat.
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07/04/09, 11:48 AM
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#1313
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Glass Joe
Troll Death Knight
Feathermoon
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Been reading a while and I also agree that Death Strike overhealing sometimes doesn't generate the threat but in my opinion in the long run your saving the healers mana. Would be interesting to see a threat comparative of Obliterate Vrs a max healing Deathstrike. If the obliterate comes out ahead might be worth while to play around in frost and pick up some more RP generation for those fights where mana isn't an issue but agro is.
off topic uestion: I have been running as a blood tank for some time now and have yet to see anyone with a talent tree like mine. It seems to work wonderful for me but I want to ensure that it can hold it's on on content past 10mans. Could I get some pointers or advice on my build if it's not to much trouble? My biggest point of contention is that I give up will of the necroplois for Frigid deathplate.
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07/04/09, 12:41 PM
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#1314
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TheSporkWithin
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Very rarely are you saving the healers mana; rather your heals generally act as mitigation of a sort, helping your healers catch up to large spikes of incoming damage (Fusion punch on Steelbreaker) or times where damage is coming in at an incredibly fast rate (Mimiron's Plasma Blast, regular attacks in Thorim hard mode at 10+ stacks, Hodir's Frozen Blows). Think of it this way: Until the point at which your healers top you off at 100% after such an onslaught, you're essentially gaining a temporary HP buffer equal to the amount you heal yourself with death strike. Of course all DK specs have access to death strike, but I feel that blood's constant use of it, plus the fact that it actually does some pretty fantastic threat, to be one of the build's biggest strengths.
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07/04/09, 6:44 PM
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#1315
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Glass Joe
Blood Elf Death Knight
Hyjal
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It really does depend on the nature of the fight. Algalon is a very poor case for examining self-healing as threat. Because the damage is high but consistent, healers are able to maintain a fairly constant level of output. As Darkside mentioned, Vezax is a much better example for two reasons: overhealing matters (from the healer's perspective), and the incoming damage is much more streaky.
Here's the log from our first Vezax hard mode on 25man. Note that I did the most healing to myself. I'd be very interested if someone could translate those numbers into threat.
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07/04/09, 8:00 PM
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#1316
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Bald Bull
Orc Death Knight
Whisperwind
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Originally Posted by Aenas
It really does depend on the nature of the fight. Algalon is a very poor case for examining self-healing as threat. Because the damage is high but consistent, healers are able to maintain a fairly constant level of output. As Darkside mentioned, Vezax is a much better example for two reasons: overhealing matters (from the healer's perspective), and the incoming damage is much more streaky.
Here's the log from our first Vezax hard mode on 25man. Note that I did the most healing to myself. I'd be very interested if someone could translate those numbers into threat.
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You did 262,608 effective healing to yourself over 513 seconds, or ~512 health per second. Healing threat is 1 threat per 2 effective health restored, so your base healing threat was ~256 per second. According to WoWWiki, Frost Presence's threat modifier is 2.0735; that means your heals generated a total threat of ~531 per second over the course of the whole fight. For the time that the animus was spawned, your healing TPS was halved and applied individually to both Vezax and the Animus (heal threat is divided evenly among every mob that has you on its aggro table).
That's assuming the "Effective Heal" column means non-overheal healing, of course. I'm not familiar with that particular parsing site.
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07/04/09, 10:12 PM
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#1317
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Protector
Ashstrike
Human Paladin
No WoW Account
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Originally Posted by Zurai
That's assuming the "Effective Heal" column means non-overheal healing, of course. I'm not familiar with that particular parsing site.
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It does count healing that actually heals. Blood DKs have the highest tps on GV.
Originally Posted by Zapheara
off topic question: I have been running as a blood tank for some time now and have yet to see anyone with a talent tree like mine.
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In a game like WoW, if you build is vastly different than anyone else's, you are likely doing something wrong (in this case, you miss a lot of good talents like Will of the Necro and lots of threat talents for 3% melee miss).
Last edited by frmorrison : 07/05/09 at 12:56 PM.
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07/05/09, 4:37 AM
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#1318
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Von Kaiser
Draenei Death Knight
Aman'Thul
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Originally Posted by Zapheara
off topic uestion: I have been running as a blood tank for some time now and have yet to see anyone with a talent tree like mine. It seems to work wonderful for me but I want to ensure that it can hold it's on on content past 10mans. Could I get some pointers or advice on my build if it's not to much trouble? My biggest point of contention is that I give up will of the necroplois for Frigid deathplate.
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You've made a lot of unusual decisions in your build. My biggest concern would be your threat on high dps encounters: 2/5 Dark Conviction, no Bloody Vengeance, no Might of Mograine, no Blood Gorged. Yet you do find the points for Spell Deflection and Bloodworms. It seems like a fairly "defensive" tanking build. I also wonder if aiming for Frigid Dreadplate in the Frost tree forces you to grab too many filler talents along the way.
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07/05/09, 1:19 PM
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#1319
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Banned
Human Death Knight
Icecrown
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Would it be considered worth it to use [Glyph of Howling Blast] and provide an alternate multi-tank rotation to:
Multi Target Rotation - DnD-HB-Pest then TAB BloodBoil RP DUMP = RS/FS TAB, etc...
I don't have the HB glyph yet, but I'm considering it. The aggro it throws out, especially if you have Killing Machine procced from the last pull, or Deathchill thrown up, is certainly enough to perhaps consider it at the very least?
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07/05/09, 3:01 PM
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#1320
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Von Kaiser
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Originally Posted by Chamenas
Would it be considered worth it to use [Glyph of Howling Blast] and provide an alternate multi-tank rotation to:
Multi Target Rotation - DnD-HB-Pest then TAB BloodBoil RP DUMP = RS/FS TAB, etc...
I don't have the HB glyph yet, but I'm considering it. The aggro it throws out, especially if you have Killing Machine procced from the last pull, or Deathchill thrown up, is certainly enough to perhaps consider it at the very least?
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It works great, very high aoe burst and decent substained.. problem is its very situational. Most occasions where aoe tanking is needed in ulduar there's a constant flow of mobs incoming, therefore unholy is superior.
With the nerf to UB for tanking as unholy, frost with the HB glyph might be the alternative.
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