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Forum: Death Knights 02/27/10, 11:05 PM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
With Kahorie's new sim, frost sims almost on par...

With Kahorie's new sim, frost sims almost on par with unholy in my gear even without the 3.3.3 button checked. I went back and ran the numbers again with the old sim and got the same result.

The...
Forum: Death Knights 02/22/10, 9:26 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
Rawr.DPSDK shows SotHM as a 500+ DPS upgrade over...

Rawr.DPSDK shows SotHM as a 500+ DPS upgrade over Virulence for every spec I tested. It also shows SotHM as a 500 DPS upgrade over Sigil of Egan's Blaster, a custom item I made that gives the same...
Forum: Death Knights 01/29/10, 7:19 PM
Replies: 228
Views: 143,916
Posted By Lujaar
Has anyone else noticed Rawr lowballing their...

Has anyone else noticed Rawr lowballing their white damage? I show my white damage as about 17%-18% for both 17/0/54 and 14/0/57, which pushes the value of Necrosis below Morbidity. Live logs and...
Forum: Death Knights 01/28/10, 2:29 PM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
I've seen that too, also on Rotface. The ghoul...

I've seen that too, also on Rotface. The ghoul died midway through the fight and Raise Dead went on 3m cooldown.
Forum: Death Knights 01/27/10, 5:16 PM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
Did AotD put the ghoul on cooldown or was it on...

Did AotD put the ghoul on cooldown or was it on cooldown to begin with? I've had Raise Dead gray out permanently when switching from unholy to another spec. It seems like sometimes when the ghoul...
Forum: Death Knights 01/11/10, 3:18 PM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
Did some testing a month or so back to try to...

Did some testing a month or so back to try to figure that out.


Army of the Dead always spawns in Defensive mode, regardless of the state of your ghoul.
Army follows /petattack and /petstay...
Forum: Death Knights 01/02/10, 9:12 PM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
I don't see any gain in macroing /cancelaura into...

I don't see any gain in macroing /cancelaura into bloodtap. Canceling bloodtap only works to your advantage immediately after spending two death runes.

If you scourgestrike off death runes then...
Forum: Death Knights 12/12/09, 3:04 AM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
An additional note on Bryntroll, since it's bound...

An additional note on Bryntroll, since it's bound to be asked a few times: The proc rate on the drain life effect is very high, something like 9-10 ppm counting procs from specials. I'm not working...
Forum: Death Knights 11/22/09, 1:19 PM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,213,364
Posted By Lujaar
To clarify, do you mean that the shadow portion...

To clarify, do you mean that the shadow portion is calculated as if the physical portion didn't benefit from RoR/Outbreak, or just that the shadow portion doesn't double-dip?
Forum: Death Knights 08/12/09, 8:39 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
This is from a couple pages back, but it's come...

This is from a couple pages back, but it's come up a couple times now with no answer, so...

Sigil of Virulence does not proc off deathstrike. The item does exactly what the tooltip says it...
Forum: Public Discussion 07/27/09, 3:18 AM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
Blizzzard has been busting their asses to...

Blizzzard has been busting their asses to reintroduce that character in Wrath. Mal'ganis had a bit part in WC3. He wasn't any more important to the story than, say, General Garithos. If you read that...
Forum: Death Knights 07/20/09, 9:45 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
RE: rolling diseases, assume you get your...

RE: rolling diseases, assume you get your diseases up with Fallen Crusader and a Greatness proc, and you're throwing up diseases at probably +1400 AP. After Ebon Plague that's +87 damage per disease...
Forum: Public Discussion 07/20/09, 3:46 AM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
Theramore was/is a colony of Kul Tiras though, I...

Theramore was/is a colony of Kul Tiras though, I believe. At the very least Theramore wasn't politically distinct from Kul Tiras in Frozen Throne. I may be unclear on whether the name applies to the...
Forum: Public Discussion 07/20/09, 3:19 AM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
Kul Tiras is the only alliance city that has been...

Kul Tiras is the only alliance city that has been attacked by the horde as it exists in WoW. (Edit: As posters below pointed out to me that attack was in Theramore, although it was an attack on...
Forum: Death Knights 07/18/09, 4:22 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
Glyph of Disease is the best use of a major glyph...

Glyph of Disease is the best use of a major glyph slot in almost any situation where you're using pestilence. If you want to use it, carry a stack of disease glyphs and a stack of whatever glyph they...
Forum: Public Discussion 07/09/09, 10:19 AM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
A WC1 remake with Doomhammer as the hero would...

A WC1 remake with Doomhammer as the hero would have a different story than the original. In the WC1 orc campaign, the Shadow Council offs Blackhand midway through the campaign to make room for your...
Forum: Public Discussion 07/09/09, 1:06 AM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
Well, we already have tauren druids just so there...

Well, we already have tauren druids just so there wouldn't be a second alliance-only class. At one of the early Blizzcons (2005?) they mentioned that the druid class almost didn't make it into the...
Forum: Public Discussion 07/05/09, 10:06 AM
Replies: 122
Views: 41,137
Posted By Lujaar
I don't see raid guilds switching factions...

I don't see raid guilds switching factions because of racials.

In the last four pages people have predicted a mass exodus out of horde and a mass exodus out of alliance. We've got people debating...
Forum: Death Knights 06/26/09, 10:06 PM
Replies: 1,333
Views: 1,251,699
Posted By Lujaar
That's why I was comparing DnD to 1 and 1/2...

That's why I was comparing DnD to 1 and 1/2 scourge strikes. If you're DnDing every 20 seconds, you're effectively losing a death rune, not a blood rune. It isn't a particularly exact comparison...
Forum: Death Knights 06/26/09, 5:50 PM
Replies: 1,333
Views: 1,251,699
Posted By Lujaar
Death and decay may not be just for AoE anymore....

Death and decay may not be just for AoE anymore. The nerf to scourge strike and the jump in iLvl going into the Coliseum may make DnD outscale scourge strike.

Assume 7k AP raid buffed, 40% melee...
Forum: Death Knights 06/25/09, 2:04 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
That's the Torment of the Weak mechanic. Torment...

That's the Torment of the Weak mechanic. Torment of the Weak is the mage equivalent of the blood strike glyph, and it was changed in 3.08 to work off attack speed debuffs in addition to snares. Glyph...
Forum: Death Knights 06/21/09, 5:21 PM
Replies: 3,089
Views: 2,635,203
Posted By Lujaar
UA being inferior to VB or Bone Shield (at least...

UA being inferior to VB or Bone Shield (at least on current encounters) is exactly why boss design favors DK cooldowns right now. UA is shield block. If shield block as a cooldown were competitive...
Forum: Death Knights 06/20/09, 2:12 PM
Replies: 3,089
Views: 2,635,203
Posted By Lujaar
Well, blood health needed a tune down. Hitting up...

Well, blood health needed a tune down. Hitting up Vot3W makes sense. Hitting up frost presence and leaving Will of the Necropolis intact is a strange choice. Will of the Necropolis is a big...
Forum: Death Knights 06/18/09, 6:54 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
You threw 19 DCs, which means either you're...

You threw 19 DCs, which means either you're talking about more than 2 minutes of fight time, or you're AMSing doomfire and using the forced downtime from shockblast to work in extra deathcoils....
Forum: Death Knights 06/18/09, 6:08 PM
Replies: 1,333
Views: 1,251,699
Posted By Lujaar
I don't see much of a DPS loss from the 3.2...

I don't see much of a DPS loss from the 3.2 stuff. Aside from AoE these changes don't look like a net nerf.

Scourge Strike change- roughly -10% Scourge Strike damage. Probably a -3% DPS loss...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/18/09, 4:18 PM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
Yeah, it's a cool idea. Engineering always felt...

Yeah, it's a cool idea. Engineering always felt to me like a class that got nerfed down into a profession. You could just take the engineering profession, take away the long cooldowns, failure...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/18/09, 3:35 PM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
I'm at a loss to figure out what new hero class...

I'm at a loss to figure out what new hero class they'd add, if not runemaster. Like other people have said, deathknight fit an archetype and a set of WC3 lore that wasn't covered by the existing...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/18/09, 11:29 AM
Replies: 621
Views: 266,446
Posted By Lujaar
I guess the idea is to keep gems from being a...

I guess the idea is to keep gems from being a smaller percentage of total stats as your gear gets better.

I'm glad they're not making epic gems too hard to get though. Hyjal gems were a mess. Gems...
Forum: Death Knights 06/11/09, 7:05 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
Presumably it doesn't snapshot all your stats....

Presumably it doesn't snapshot all your stats. Blizzard has stated repeatedly that there's a technical limitation preventing pets from scaling with some stats.

For what it's worth, I got some...
Forum: Death Knights 06/11/09, 9:03 AM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
I did some quick DRW testing tonight. I'm 99%...

I did some quick DRW testing tonight. I'm 99% sure DRW gets hysteria and inherits at least some talents.

Tested by comparing deathstrike damage, full DPS gear minus trinkets, Giant Mace (no...
Forum: Death Knights 06/04/09, 4:18 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,547
Posted By Lujaar
Good point about the HSx2. Glyph of disease...

Good point about the HSx2.

Glyph of disease still doesn't seem worth it though. 1077 damage over two rune sets is about 54 dps. If I remember the numbers right for the DRW and Dark Death glyphs,...
Forum: Death Knights 05/28/09, 9:08 AM
Replies: 840
Views: 708,453
Posted By Lujaar
That's exactly my point. Leaderboards or any...

That's exactly my point. Leaderboards or any other collection of combat logs can't give us stat weights. If the top blood parse for some boss uses a fish feast instead of strength food, that...
Forum: Death Knights 05/26/09, 7:19 PM
Replies: 840
Views: 708,453
Posted By Lujaar
Where do these statistics come from? The EP...

Where do these statistics come from? The EP weights we use are generated by sims. The best tool I know for polling actual boss DPS is WMO, and the WMO leaderboards include tons of parses from people...
Forum: Death Knights 05/25/09, 6:35 PM
Replies: 840
Views: 708,453
Posted By Lujaar
Simulation probably undervalues hit and...

Simulation probably undervalues hit and expertise. Any time you HS off a death rune while blood runes coming off cooldown, a miss or dodge can delay spending the death rune until the blood runes are...
Forum: Death Knights 05/16/09, 8:40 AM
Replies: 1,333
Views: 1,251,699
Posted By Lujaar
Changing unholy blight doesn't seem like the...

Changing unholy blight doesn't seem like the right solution, but it does seem like the solution least likely to interfere with unholy's tanking or single-target damage.

If unholy has a problem with...
Forum: Death Knights 05/04/09, 6:29 PM
Replies: 840
Views: 708,453
Posted By Lujaar
With the upcoming nerf, 4pcT7 should generate 40...

With the upcoming nerf, 4pcT7 should generate 40 RP or 1 deathcoil over 80s. DRW zeros out your RP every 90s, so really you're getting 1 extra DC every 90s. That DC costs a GCD, and there are only...
Forum: The Dung Heap 04/17/09, 1:36 PM
Replies: 177
Views: 168,487
Posted By Lujaar
We're looking for best-case though, not to set a...

We're looking for best-case though, not to set a bar. XT may invalidate a lot of attempts to parse DPS because because someone got fucked by bombs, but eventually enough people are going to get lucky...
Forum: Death Knights 04/14/09, 7:00 PM
Replies: 1,333
Views: 1,251,699
Posted By Lujaar
Bloodmourne, your trinket comparisons assume 100%...

Bloodmourne, your trinket comparisons assume 100% proc uptime. Suffice to say that makes them way, way off. (EDIT: That's been fixed now.)

But you're right, just going by AEP, Grim Toll isn't great.
Forum: Public Discussion 04/14/09, 5:34 PM
Replies: 10,771
Views: 2,450,608
Posted By Lujaar
The Wrathgate chain from the horde side made it...

The Wrathgate chain from the horde side made it clear that neither Thrall nor Sylvanas knew about Putress.

I get what you're saying about some of the other "atrocities" - the Royal Apothecary...
Forum: Death Knights 04/14/09, 4:18 PM
Replies: 1,333
Views: 1,251,699
Posted By Lujaar
Miracleknight, both of the cookie cutter specs...

Miracleknight, both of the cookie cutter specs you posted take Morbidity over Necrosis. For single target DPS, Necrosis should be the better talent. Do you know something I don't, or is this just...
Forum: Death Knights 04/05/09, 8:32 PM
Replies: 2,157
Views: 1,502,557
Posted By Lujaar
Linking the T8 vs T7 thread again: World of...

Linking the T8 vs T7 thread again: World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> DK: FULL Tier7 to FULL Tier8 is a DPS loss....
Forum: Death Knights 03/27/09, 3:37 PM
Replies: 2,157
Views: 1,502,557
Posted By Lujaar
Glyph of IT sucks now. The value of Glyph of UB...

Glyph of IT sucks now. The value of Glyph of UB vs Glyph of Dark Death depends mostly on whether you have 4pc T7.


Some more napkinmath on glyphs, IT vs Dark Death vs UB. Dark Death gives you extra...
Forum: Death Knights 03/16/09, 5:11 AM
Replies: 2,157
Views: 1,502,557
Posted By Lujaar
As a sanity check on Bladed Armor, let's assume...

As a sanity check on Bladed Armor, let's assume each point of BA is worth 80 AP (see above for discussion on why this is a reasonable figure), and assume you do 5000 DPS because it's about right and...
Forum: Death Knights 03/08/09, 9:14 PM
Replies: 2,157
Views: 1,502,557
Posted By Lujaar
Look at Treytreyex's numbers again. Assuming his...

Look at Treytreyex's numbers again. Assuming his PS and SS average hits held up over a larger sample size, he actually lost DPS on those deathrune PS's. His scourge strikes are hitting for slightly...
Forum: Death Knights 03/02/09, 4:32 PM
Replies: 983
Views: 537,745
Posted By Lujaar
This smacks of a bug. I could see Blizzard...

This smacks of a bug. I could see Blizzard converting SS to physical damage, but I can't imagine they'd deliberately make an ability that double-dips on armor modifiers and shadow damage modifiers....
Forum: Death Knights 02/27/09, 12:58 PM
Replies: 1,148
Views: 572,880
Posted By Lujaar
0/44/27 runs a different rotation than other...

0/44/27 runs a different rotation than other frost specs. The best I've been able to figure out is

IT-PS-BS-BS-HB-(FS dump)-HB-IT-IT-FS-HB-(FS dump).


There's no consensus on what exactly this...
Forum: Death Knights 02/25/09, 1:29 PM
Replies: 983
Views: 537,745
Posted By Lujaar
5%? I can't remember the last time I saw more...

5%? I can't remember the last time I saw more than 4% BCB damage, and usually it's 2-3%. Assuming there aren't any hidden mechanics we don't know about I'd expect it to be about 2% overall DPS in...
Forum: Death Knights 02/25/09, 4:34 AM
Replies: 983
Views: 537,745
Posted By Lujaar
Ohh man, you have no idea. The TBC enh shaman...

Ohh man, you have no idea. The TBC enh shaman thread devoted hundreds of nerd-hours to figuring out how the windfury cooldown worked and never agreed on where exactly haste becomes devalued. You're...
Forum: Death Knights 02/24/09, 1:14 PM
Replies: 983
Views: 537,745
Posted By Lujaar
Presumably Master of Ghouls still gives you a...

Presumably Master of Ghouls still gives you a permaghoul. The language on MMO-champion was "also reduces the cooldown of your Raise Dead spell..." (emphasis mine). Resummoning every 2 minutes won't...
Forum: Death Knights 02/24/09, 12:17 PM
Replies: 983
Views: 537,745
Posted By Lujaar
Dualwield may be dead, but IT/PS spam is here to...

Dualwield may be dead, but IT/PS spam is here to stay. With glyphed Plague Strike hitting for 80% weapon damage before Outbreak, and Black Ice still in tier 2 (albeit nerfed), I expect to see a lot...
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