Ok I did some 10-man ulduar yesterday using the 10/61 spec.

First of all, I personally didn't really have any aggro issues, although i haven't been in real aoe situations yet so that might be the exception.

We killed Flame Leviathan, Razorscale, XT-002 Deconstructor and Kologarn. Ignis was buggy, and we didnt have the right setup nor the time to invest in the council.

First things first, i did about 4000-4500 dps average (in 10 man, only melee buff being 10% AP or 20% haste depending on the DK tank), which is way higher than i had before. So either some other people are doing something wrong, or i'm doing something right.
Although I did have some issues, namely that my disease timers weren't tracking my own diseases very well. We had a DK tank with us who had shorter diseases, and sometimes it would just switch to his, so i'd completely lose track of my own. Have to see if i can fix that before the next run.

Second of all, the heal component from Ghoul Frenzy, is really useful. Deconstructor seems to be slightly overtuned, but one of his effects, affect the pet as well. So it was taking weird damage sometimes.

I really can't say what the best use for ghoul frenzy is. Sometimes i tried to use it as much as possible, other time i used it only when it needed the heal, or i had a free blood tap.
To be honest the latter seemed to work best, as the former really messes up rotations.

A few remarks:

- Use ghoul frenzy before you start the boss, just like 3-5 seconds before you run in and your rune will be up again when you need it.
- Preventing the ghoul from dying is important. With the cooldown now starting when it dies, you lose a lot of dps. So ghoul frenzy really helps out there.

Yesterday did some Ulduar 10-man aswell.

Tho we didnt have too much time, we still managed to down FlameLOL at first try and did some try's on bugged Ignis and Razorscale.

Brought the 12/0/59 spec (without GF, to try out) and did around 3500-4000 dps.
Today, on 25-man, im bringing 0/10/61 to see the difference or to check how to go into play with the GF.

Comparing spec with 10 man buffs to other spec with 25 man buffs is not so smart.

You can avoid (and exploit?) the "CD starting when Ghoul dies"-thing by mounting with your Ghoul summoned. The game seems to think: "Ghoul disappeared - start CD!".

And to contribute something to the Ghoul Frenzy-discussion: I had some 10-and-25-man Ulduar yesterday and Ghoul Frenzy helped alot to keep my friend alive on some fights like Razorscale with all the Devouring Flames.

I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it's 4P T7>4P T8>2P T7+2PT8

As blood I was pulling between 4500 and 5200. As Unholy I did around 3600-4000.

I have no idea what, then. It's not that hard to play Unholy :/. My diseases were up all the time, didn't lose gargoyle and had UB up all the time too. Didn't get overboard with RP either. Ghoul was not on passive . Maybe I just got very unlucky with being eaten up those tries. Today I'll go with 12/0/59 instead and see how it turns out (although I'll probably be Blood most of the tries because our enhancement shaman won't come ).

You're expecting too much...

You have too much hit (aim for 263), and you don't have DPS enhancing professions such as Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing.

Bear in mind that the top DPS DK's are almost all using BiS gear with 4 piece T7.5 bonus, using all max consumables and Betrayer...

Has anybody tried messing around with Glyph of Disease for disease refreshes instead of Glyph of Scourge Strike? I was trying it last night, seems to make rotations have awkward sets, especially when using Ghoul Frenzy as well.

Yeah there were tests done with Glyph of Disease, it doesn't add any damage and at worse case it causes a DPS loss because if you refresh your diseases say at 2 seconds so they're 1 second away from ticking, you will have to wait another 3 seconds for it to tick. Obviously this applies to Scourge Strike, but at least that does a lot of damage. It's only useful for AOE :/. I've added that to the Q and A section.

Also added Macros to the guide, I'll do gems sometime soon as well. If anyone has any new macros to add, those were all I found in the Macro thread, feel free to PM it to me.

Man, this just feels like a kick to the danglies.

I'm using the 12/9/59 setup now, and it's only giving me around 2750 dps on the boss dummy. (have yet to enter a heroic, our realm's instances are still down).

According to recount, my top 3 dps abilities are: SS (29%) melee (22%) death coil (15%).

Knowing that, I wonder; would it be a dps boost to take the 3 points out of morbiditiy and throw them into necrosis? I'm using the death coil glyph, so essentially i would back to normal damage on death coil from 3.0.8.

Any thoughts?

Where did you get those extra 9 points from?

Anyhow: I am also 12/0/59 and get the same low DPS results as you. 2.5-2.6k on a dummy. I know I dont have BiS gear but I should perform better then that..