Last night we did hardmodes on Iron Council, Hodir and Thorim. Especially in Iron Council fight I had significant trouble keeping my pet alive. I used huddle to weather through Overloads but due to Chain Lightnings and other AoE had to use deathcoils quite often to keep my pet alive. Now, assuming my deathcoils are approximately 13% of my total dps and my pet is about 12% of my dps should I just leave the pet to healers mercy and use deathcoils to dps (ofc re-summoning pet after 30 sec)?

Or get Ghoul Frenzy for healing. Or bind follow and attack to easily reachable hotkeys (this seems to me to be the best idea). With GoGhoul it should survive an overload though, shouldn't it. Correct me if I'm wrong though but isn't Overload closeness-related, dealing more damage the closer you are? Should just be enough to put your pet to follow for a short while so it runs a small distance from him.

@Sealpup: I'm assuming you're talking about putting 3/3 Subversion when you say "Blood"? If not I don't get the point.

@Bigwang: Read back a few pages and somewhere there is a post listing DPS for both 3/3 and 0/0 Subversion with different glyphs, including Dark Death and Disease.

Yes, ghoul survives overload (especially with huddle on) but it still takes some damage continuously from things like High Voltage and Static Distrucption which cannot be outranged, prevented or interrupted and unlike myself it doesn't regenerate or self-heal during the fight so sooner or later it will die from damage piling up unless I use DC on it. As for Ghoul Frenzy... I think it was already established that it is a very sucky talent and not really worth it dps- or healingwise.

The fact is that I don't need any more tricks to keep the ghoul alive. I CAN do it, but doing so requires deathcoils in addition to other tricks. What I do need is some way to calculate the "breaking point", i.e. after how many deathcoils does keepoing ghoul alive hurt my dps more than the living ghoul provides?

If your healers aren't keeping pets alive through the misc damage that isn't overload, chain lightning, or lightning whirl they need to be yelled at.

I will be quite honest here, I am not sure if the UI forum or this thread is the place for this reply, but considering the importance of my question to this spec's dps, I am sure someone here will be able to assist me.

I am currently trying to configure power auras to monitor my various Unholy Strength buffs in order to maximize the effectiveness of my Garg. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to register spell-ID's, and it will often confuse the three different Unholy Strengths (2pc t9, SoV, and RotFC).

What sort of work-arounds do my fellow unholy death knights use to monitor this? Obviously I would prefer if someone had advice on powerauras configuration, but other addon suggestions are welcome (though I will probably use them as a last resort -- I have taken a liking to power auras).



Also, I suppose this has been beaten into the ground with the new shorter sim results, but lower uptime on 2pc t9 is yet another reason I neglect GoD.

I use either the Proculas or Procodile mod, I'm at work so I can't check which, and I don't remember. You can add a custom spell using the spell id and it will track it, and show the cooldown. I pretty much just work off of the cooldown list to know what's up.

I believe Procodile is the mod that allows you to enter spells/buffs/procs based on spell ID.

New PTR build, here are the Unholy changes:
# Dirge no longer affects Obliterate.
# Bone Shield cooldown has been lowered from 2 min to 1 min.
# Subversion now also affects Scourge Strike.

Also:

• Glyph of Scourge Strike - Your Scourge Strike increases the duration of your Blood Plague and Frost Fever on the target by 3 sec, up to a maximum of 9 additional seconds. (Old - Your Scourge Strike has a 25% chance to cause Blood Plague and Frost Fever.)

Looking at the rough napkin math, I do want to say this will be enough to push 3/10/58 SS over 3/13/55 Oblit or 0/17/54 Oblit. The Dirge nerf is in the ballpark of 100-200 dps lost for Oblit builds, and the Subversion/Glyph changes are in the ballpark of 100-200 dps gained for SS builds. When you then add in the ArP nerf (minor as it may be) and the fact that Oblit is actually only superior to SS by ~200-250ish dps to begin with, it should be enough.

Gearing is going to be a pain once again (Agility being better than ArP will be a joy, once more), but at least it will be nice to be back to SS, and back in a way which isn't a dps loss.

Edit: I'll update the OP this evening with a section for the PTR or more likely just something along th lines of "Upcoming Changes". I won't redo stuff like the rotation/spec/etcetera until things actually go live (although I will type up replacements to have ready the second it does). Considering how liable things on the PTR are to being changed, this seems the most prudent thing to do, imo, although advice/criticism is welcome as always.

Interesting change to make the cycle an even 30 seconds with no randomness.

Ideally it won't put the diseases on the same timer, too, like the old glyph. From my understanding diseases ticking at the same time can still invoke a 1sec icd on WP.