While it probably did work with the original incarnation of Blood Tap in 3.0, it does not work with the current Blood Tap mechanics. I have tested it in game several times to be sure.

Agreed, the rotation I listed above doesn't work. That's my fault, I made a mistake on BT mechanics, and I've edited my previous posts to avoid confusion.

This may just need to be a hit that GoD builds take on Blood Plague. The way SS scales, the extra SS you get out of GoD has to out-weigh the small DPS loss from lowered BP damage (and keep in mind that my 65 DPS figure is with 4pT9). However, it does mean that we should open with Plague Strike instead of Icy Touch, even if starting at range.

Of course, all this is meaningless if you can get another DK to put Blood Plague up before you do.

Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, but my searching around didn't yield a definite answer:


Before 3.3 there was a section in the OP about when it's viable to switch from Unholy Presence to Blood Presence (something like +300 haste), but I notice it's gone now. So does that mean that the optimal rotation assumes we are going to always DPS in Blood Presence regardless of our haste rating?

I've been experimenting with running in both presences and in some cases (trash) it almost feels like UP > BP?

There should be a free GCD immediately after HoW and no other major gaps. Remember that the interface has never been good at displaying rune ability cooldowns (so don't wait for the interface) and that you are mixing melee GCDs with spell GCDs. Those two factors together can make it seem like there are significant gaps, but there is no design flaw in that rotation that unnecessarily increases its length.

That is supposed to happen in theory. Remember that GoD resets the number of ticks on the disease to its maximum without altering the timing of the disease ticks, so when a glyphed Pestilence refreshes a disease, the disease's "duration" is "reset" to between just over 21 sec and just below 24 sec (assuming 2/2 Epidemic). Since diseases are on 3-sec cycles and the rotation is on a 20-sec cycle, your Pestilence refresh time fluctuates on a 60-sec cycle. The two diseases are on separate cycles, so in practice you are usually on the short end of the refresh leeway for at least one disease on any given Pestilence refresh. Of course, there are a number of ways to manipulate the tick timing further (for example, tabbing to a secondary target and infect your primary target with Pestilenced ticks; all of these things also have consequences on WP, of course).

Where does your spreadsheet put the last point in Morbidity for AE purposes?

Some pages back somebody concluded that the last point in Morbidity was pointless for AE purposes based on Kahorie's sim putting 20-sec AE rotations slightly ahead of 15-sec AE rotations. My own calculations has always put 15-sec AE rotations substantially ahead of 20-sec AE rotations. I didn't get a chance to look into the discrepancy until recently when I was doing rotation tests on DnD/2pT10-based Frost and Unholy tanking specs I was experimenting with for 3.3.

Realistically, the average rotation length for 3/3 Morbidity DnD rotations is around 15.25 sec, targetting click and all. However, Kahorie's sim rates 3/3 Morbidity DnD rotations at ~16.75+ sec. This is not like the 3.2 Reaping issue where the sim is a couple hundred miliseconds off and you eventually graduate to Reapingless anyway when you get near BiS haste. Kahorie's sim is 15 to 17.5+ hundred miliseconds off here. To make it worse, the increased rotation length also happens to turn very favorable disease refreshes for the 3/3 Morbidity DnD rotations into unfavorable ones.

It's hard to justify dropping a point in Morbidity When you weigh the substantial sustained AE DPS loss against the wee single-target DPS gain.