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Forum: Warriors 12/26/10, 4:16 PM

Replies: 646 Arms DPS: 4.0 and Cataclysm Views: 1,347,276 Posted By Odii Messing around with a warrior, and one thing I... Messing around with a warrior, and one thing I noticed that Bladestorm is insanely rage efficient, and can be used to generate a full bar of rage while sustaining decent damage. Got me to thinking it...

Forum: Death Knights 02/23/10, 11:45 AM

Replies: 1,800 Frost DPS in 3.3.3::This will be a day long remembered Views: 2,520,472 Posted By Odii Unintentional back to back posts. Unintentional back to back posts.

Forum: Death Knights 02/23/10, 11:39 AM

Replies: 1,800 Frost DPS in 3.3.3::This will be a day long remembered Views: 2,520,472 Posted By Odii The only difference would be for the starting... The only difference would be for the starting rotation, and that would be delayed all of one GCD. And even then, you could easily just put 2 RP dumps at the end instead of having one in the middle,...

Forum: Death Knights 02/22/10, 9:39 PM

Replies: 1,800 Frost DPS in 3.3.3::This will be a day long remembered Views: 2,520,472 Posted By Odii Well, I think the point of any rotation like this... Well, I think the point of any rotation like this is that you will waste KM and Rime procs. But in the GoD rotation its just not worth it to try and capture them all. I think its arguable that it...

Forum: Death Knights 02/22/10, 8:39 PM

Replies: 1,800 Frost DPS in 3.3.3::This will be a day long remembered Views: 2,520,472 Posted By Odii There are two things that make a frost priority... There are two things that make a frost priority with GoD more problematic. #1 you have a narrow window with which you can refresh your runes. The first factor in this is that you have to refresh...

Forum: Death Knights 02/22/10, 1:21 AM

Replies: 1,800 Frost DPS in 3.3.3::This will be a day long remembered Views: 2,520,472 Posted By Odii This particular rotation will waste KM procs... This particular rotation will waste KM procs (most likely, hes not indicating when and how rp and rime procs are used). If you use one that intersperses Frost Strikes and Rime procs between rune...

Forum: Death Knights 09/08/09, 2:03 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Even with CF its going to be a small enough... Even with CF its going to be a small enough difference 4pT9 so as not to change the relationship between the two much. The much greater factor is raid buff stacking, which is another consideration...

Forum: Death Knights 09/07/09, 7:55 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii You are only talking about a modest % increase on... You are only talking about a modest % increase on the difference between disease damage in both specs. its not significant enough to shift the balance between specs much. We are talking about DW...

Forum: Death Knights 08/26/09, 11:19 AM

Replies: 1,164 Kahorie's DK simulator 2.0 Beta - Including Cataclysm. Views: 766,099 Posted By Odii Ill throw this out here as a possible avenue to... Ill throw this out here as a possible avenue to explore at some point. Have you considered changing the simulator to run instead as a series of many short fights, instead of a single long one? User...

Forum: Death Knights 08/26/09, 11:12 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii What? Prioritizing Str over hit and expertise... What? Prioritizing Str over hit and expertise will result in higher dps in fights when the observed miss rate is sufficiently higher then the average miss rate. Wether this is advisable is another...

Forum: Death Knights 08/25/09, 6:52 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Well, technicly the DPS gain from hit vs. str is... Well, technicly the DPS gain from hit vs. str is qualitatively different, in that hit raises the floor (but not max) dps you can do, while strength raises both floor and max. If you really wanted to...

Forum: Death Knights 08/14/09, 12:32 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Except that is clearly not the correct... Except that is clearly not the correct percentages. A quick way to prove it: Every Icy Touch is proceeded by a Blood Strike. ~52% of Blood strokes are followed by an Icy Touch. The other ~48% are...

Forum: Death Knights 08/12/09, 11:31 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii It makes sense, since if you are GCD limited, a... It makes sense, since if you are GCD limited, a missed attack is especially painful. And since 11 of your 12 attacks can be dodged, its especially important. Spell hit ends up being much less...

Forum: Death Knights 08/10/09, 9:28 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii If you need to provide IIT, or even may need to,... If you need to provide IIT, or even may need to, and GoD goes out the window, GoHB if used properly is probably the best of the options for the 3rd glyph. Using it properly though is...

Forum: Death Knights 08/10/09, 11:59 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Dropping Chill of the Grave loses you 25 RP every... Dropping Chill of the Grave loses you 25 RP every 20, which is an awfully big hole to put in your RP pocket. Rime HB would also generate 5 less RP. 0 points is really a non starter.1 point in CotG is...

Forum: Death Knights 08/09/09, 12:21 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii 1. Using the GoHB the way I described ealier in... 1. Using the GoHB the way I described ealier in the thread is an average RP loss per 20 seconds of about 9.5rp iirc. But its a bigger DPS increase if RP doesnt become an issue (IE swamping). 2. As...

Forum: Death Knights 08/08/09, 6:02 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii This is, to a degree, true. But you don't want to... This is, to a degree, true. But you don't want to delay your rune refreshes either by excessive interruption.

Forum: Death Knights 08/07/09, 2:46 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii What? Switching to UP is a substantial loss over... What? Switching to UP is a substantial loss over blood presence. In the neighborhood of 10%. When you factor in that the rotation represents only 2/3 of your total damage, and Frost Strike/Rime come...

Forum: Death Knights 08/06/09, 5:37 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Regarding Killing Machine: I recommend moving... Regarding Killing Machine: I recommend moving away from a true priority, and to a rotation for single target DPS, and just evenly spacing KMs throughout it. If you have Rime and KM up leading into a...

Forum: Death Knights 08/05/09, 6:45 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii @Grimmu: Read the discussions about using the... @Grimmu: Read the discussions about using the Glyph of Howling Blast to replace ITs, without costing you Obliterates. @Kevak: Replace those Ds with Bs and you see why its a very big deal. The whole...

Forum: Death Knights 08/05/09, 12:41 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Actually, what I mean is that your F rune will... Actually, what I mean is that your F rune will fire off before you U rune, and will therefore refresh 1.5 seconds earlier. If you are carrying over a death rune from the previous rotation, then you...

Forum: Death Knights 08/05/09, 11:47 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii This actually gets me to something on the HB... This actually gets me to something on the HB glyph rotation that Ive been thinking about. I havent dove in head first to the full HB rotation at this stage because my timing is still on a UP spam...

Forum: Death Knights 08/04/09, 12:37 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii One thing about Unholy I'm finding is that there... One thing about Unholy I'm finding is that there is so much ballast in terms of damage that is not related to your weapons, you can almost use whatever weapons you want with any spec, and really only...

Forum: Death Knights 08/04/09, 11:45 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Thanks Astallion, I think that more or less... Thanks Astallion, I think that more or less validates the theoretical work I did. Now is it practical to actually do? ;) But one advantaged with the Glyph of Howling Blast that hasn't been discussed...

Forum: Death Knights 08/03/09, 6:30 PM

Replies: 1,333 Unholy Gains Shadow of Death (Unholy DPS Discussion now with more 3.2!) Views: 1,251,605 Posted By Odii Yeah, looking at it 0-17-54 looks the better... Yeah, looking at it 0-17-54 looks the better deal. Im not sure what I did to get that run over 7k, but I am getting reproduce-able 6850 results with 2hstatset2. Not a bad result, but you can get...

Forum: Death Knights 08/02/09, 5:33 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii @Foxx: Thinking in terms of GCD rotations rather... @Foxx: Thinking in terms of GCD rotations rather then strict rune rotations is exactly why I had an issue with calling FS filler. If you are given a choice of sacrificing an underperforming rune for...

Forum: Death Knights 08/01/09, 4:26 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Its definitely more then filler, something like... Its definitely more then filler, something like 20+% of your damage will be Frost Strike. Frost Strike and its glyph are going to be major component and contributor to any Frost build. It just...

Forum: Death Knights 08/01/09, 11:32 AM

Replies: 1,333 Unholy Gains Shadow of Death (Unholy DPS Discussion now with more 3.2!) Views: 1,251,605 Posted By Odii Im curious what best in slot you used for Frost... Im curious what best in slot you used for Frost was, since the stat weights will have completely changed for 3.2, and it should look much more like Blood's BiS.

Forum: Death Knights 07/30/09, 12:38 AM

Replies: 1,164 Kahorie's DK simulator 2.0 Beta - Including Cataclysm. Views: 766,099 Posted By Odii I couldnt get your pest rotation to work until I... I couldnt get your pest rotation to work until I set the retry=0 for pestilence. Once I did that I didnt have a problem.

Forum: Death Knights 07/29/09, 11:48 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii I had some trouble getting Unlimiter's rotation... I had some trouble getting Unlimiter's rotation to work, but was able to eventually. Came in at 6216 DPS on a 24 hour simulation run with stat set 2. Standard 200ms latency, etc. etc.

Forum: Death Knights 07/29/09, 10:26 PM

Replies: 1,333 Unholy Gains Shadow of Death (Unholy DPS Discussion now with more 3.2!) Views: 1,251,605 Posted By Odii So a simulated result isn't necessarily... So a simulated result isn't necessarily translatable into real raid damage? Wouldn't be the first time that happened. Worst, and I mean the absolutely worst not going to happen bad timing, case...

Forum: Death Knights 07/28/09, 11:55 PM

Replies: 1,333 Unholy Gains Shadow of Death (Unholy DPS Discussion now with more 3.2!) Views: 1,251,605 Posted By Odii Ive been palying around with various 2h specs in... Ive been palying around with various 2h specs in Kahorie's simulator, and I found one that seems to work for 2h Unholy in 3.2. Its a plague strike/icy touch spam build. Plague Strike actually hits...

Forum: Death Knights 07/28/09, 1:56 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii @Foxxx2405: other then the spec xml that is... @Foxxx2405: other then the spec xml that is listed on your unholy test (not a big deal, I see UB in there), wandering plague damage is conspicuous in its absence on that parse. @Kistrel: A couple...

Forum: Death Knights 07/28/09, 12:42 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii KM Rime really makes a big difference. The... KM Rime really makes a big difference. The problem with using the rime proc in the sim was that Rime, when used semi randomly, was a dps loss over Frost Strike. But not using Rime just cheats you out...

Forum: Death Knights 07/27/09, 9:14 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii OB is better then pretty much everything else you... OB is better then pretty much everything else you can do, except keep both diseases up. The whole point of your rotation/priority should be to make sure OB fires on time, every time, whenever...

Forum: Death Knights 07/27/09, 3:29 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Thats closer. Id describe the runes GCD use as a... Thats closer. Id describe the runes GCD use as a priority, where its HB>FF refresh>BS. The idea is that you never use IT unless you have to refresh FF. You could just use BS with blood runes and IT...

Forum: Death Knights 07/27/09, 1:40 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Ok, ill try to explain what Im doing a little... Ok, ill try to explain what Im doing a little more clearly. As to why it "works" as more DPS, its assuming you are limited to 12 GCDs per 20, and it is simply using a free resource (Rime procs) to...

Forum: Death Knights 07/25/09, 8:50 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii My math on the Glyph of Howling Blast was off. I... My math on the Glyph of Howling Blast was off. I was overusing Icy Touch and underusing Blood Strike. I also looked at using HB every time rime procs, replacing either frost strike or the BS/IT spot....

Forum: Death Knights 07/24/09, 10:15 PM

Replies: 1,164 Kahorie's DK simulator 2.0 Beta - Including Cataclysm. Views: 766,099 Posted By Odii 2 notes: Unholy Blight still seems to be at 30%... 2 notes: Unholy Blight still seems to be at 30% in 0.9.5 (instead of the current 20% is is currently on test) and Obliterate is currently getting 2 chances to proc Rime (1-0.85^2) on test, 1 for...

Forum: Death Knights 07/24/09, 7:14 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii I was thinking of a way to use the Glyph of... I was thinking of a way to use the Glyph of Howling Blast instead of the glyph of Blood Strike (assuming you needed to provide IIT). The basic rotation (after a starter, probably one used in...

Forum: Death Knights 07/23/09, 10:36 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii I think its worth checking then if OB gets double... I think its worth checking then if OB gets double chance to proc Rime still.

Forum: Death Knights 07/22/09, 11:38 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Starting at... Starting at http://elitistjerks.com/f72/t64830-dw_builds_3_2_revenge_offhand_updated_7_22_09_a/p16/#post1319408 Astallion and I discussed the viability of Unholy presence and extra RP. The offshoot...

Forum: Death Knights 07/22/09, 9:36 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii It has less to do with any build, but more of a... It has less to do with any build, but more of a rotation optimization. DW Frost in blood presence has wasted RP/Rime procs because there aren't enough free GCDs to use them all if you are applying...

Forum: Death Knights 07/22/09, 12:06 AM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii I'm more worried about things like whether the... I'm more worried about things like whether the reduction from 30% to 20% for UB is included, if KM is causing 100% crit on the off hand. And in particular cross spec comparisons, like between Unholy...

Forum: Death Knights 07/21/09, 10:27 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Its the last stat in the list, but the problem is... Its the last stat in the list, but the problem is if you are using Kahorie's its not fully up to date. Further making the comparison problematic is that the set is rather random. To properly compare...

Forum: Death Knights 07/21/09, 9:48 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Ok, Im actually not arguing about this thread in... Ok, Im actually not arguing about this thread in particular. Im focussing more on the notion that when 3.2 actually hits live, their should only be 1 DW thread. If both specs are viable, both should...

Forum: Death Knights 07/21/09, 9:22 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Except that they are two totally different... Except that they are two totally different models. The old frost DW specs shared much in common with the old unholy DW specs, as both were abut maximizing non-strike based damage, So its natural that...

Forum: Death Knights 07/21/09, 8:48 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii The problem with having one thread for DW Frost... The problem with having one thread for DW Frost and DW Unholy is that it presumes people care about the DW part, not the major tree selection. DW Frost is functionally different the DW Unholy, in...

Forum: Death Knights 07/21/09, 2:49 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Its not quite that simple. First you need to... Its not quite that simple. First you need to compare 100% crit HB vs 100% crit FS mianhand +Base crit rate off hand, and come up with which is more damage. If you are using a 4 OB, 4ish FS, Blood...

Forum: Death Knights 07/20/09, 2:28 PM

Replies: 2,021 DW Builds 3.2 -Revenge of the Offhand Views: 1,495,882 Posted By Odii Your taking the Strike focused design of deep... Your taking the Strike focused design of deep frost DW, and the spell focused design of Unholy DW, and your watering down both with this spec.

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