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The toon is called Kelthuna. As you may know we did a WotLK LAN marathon last weekend. On day one i tried the Blood tree, on day 2 Unholy, and day 3 Frost. We did a lot of quests, but also many instances.
Blood is by far the best lvl'ing/grind specc. Several self healing abilities, makes elites and mini bosses easy. But also make sure you have absolutely zero down time. Ive heard that in endgame DPS Blood is also the place to be.
Unholy for me did the most DPS. The permanent pet (Ghoul) helps alot. Unholy has an anti magic shell that covers an area, which may be usefull on certain boss fights.
Frost is the Tank tree. This is the first time for me that the standard interface doesnt have enough space for all the abilities. For instance, DK's have 2 taunts standard and 1 panic button, frost adds 2 panic buttons. Frost offers 1 extra runic power abilitie then the other trees. This is all to much to keep track of with the standard interfac, meaning if i go Frost ill have to install a mod.
Single target threat generation seems pretty good. AoE tanking can be done, but requires quit some practise. The standard AoE abilitie 'Death and Decay' (red bubbles) has a long cooldown, so cant be spammed, it also uses 3 runes, making it hard to use midfight. The other AoE abilitie 'Howling Blast' is frost specific and requires a target to have the DK frost disease DoT (Frost Fever) on it. There is more then 1 way to get the dot on a target, but at the start of the fight the easiest is to cast 'icy touch' on a target, which leaves the DoT, then cast 'Pestilence', which spreads the DoT to other nearby targets. Then cast 'Howling Blast', which damages the target and all nearby targets with the DoT.
As you can guess a 3 spell combination to get 1 AoE effect takes quit some time. All targets are left with a DoT and Howling Blast itself does quit some damage so the threat is good.
Atm its hard for me to combine the 2 AoE abilites due to the Runes they use. Death and decay uses BFU. The Howling Blast combo uses FUF (preferably with an extra U to get a 2nd DoT on targets). The only way to combine this is with the usage of Deathrunes, but due to the interface shortage i havent been able to get this working.
When the dual specc is
When the dual specc is possible i'll probably go frost and unholy.
and one more comment for the
and one more comment for the test
I like the graphics around
I like the graphics around here btw, but ive also seen the original Jelle made, which looks better. The pics need a little tweaking (less white pixels and white edges).
I've always wanted to Dual
I've always wanted to Dual Wield, but as paladins cant ive never done so. When i started with Kelthuna, i started wiht the thought of going Tank Dual Wielding. But after some reading on Elitestjerks i gave this idea up. You get to many parry's which only hastes the Boss, making it a bad idea in general. There is however a weird DPS DW specc for DK's...
With Daniel joining as a tank, Hedzer having good gear on both Shrubs and Teleute, and Jelle working on his tank gear, i think there is enough balance in the guild for me to try this DW specc out. Therefor i will respecc soon, and try DPS for a while. If we're short on tanks i can always respecc.
Go for it! :D
Go for it! :D
So thats why you picked up
So thats why you picked up the Torment of the Banished the other day :)
Nice one, go for it!
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Fear is the mindkiller...
Great, have fun :D
Great, have fun :D
In 3.1 they have nerfed my
In 3.1 they have nerfed my Frost Dual Wield build to death. I tried it once and quickly respecced after i stopped crying. Last evening i tried the other and last viable Dual Wield specc, Unholy. It has good AoE dmg but mediocre single target dps. Problem is that im fairly sure that if i take roughly the same specc but use a 2H weapon my single target dps will increase.
I'm gonna try out the 2H specc to see what the difference is.
Trash dps looked great
Trash dps looked great yesterday. Hope the 2H will improve that on single target, do you have a nice weapon for it?
Probably lower ilevel on his
Probably lower ilevel on his 2h than on his 1h weapons, if I remember correctly those were ilevel 200 and 213.
I still have Wraith Spear
I still have Wraith Spear polearm from Naxx, its lvl 200. Should be good enough to give me an idea.
Well that one beats my 2h
Well that one beats my 2h :P
Good luck trying the new spec.
It's become pretty obvious.
It's become pretty obvious. My Dual Wield Frost specc averaged a dps around 2100, Dual Wield Unholy 2400 on single target, and 2H Unholy 2650. This is with same gear (except weapon ofc) and roughly same raid composition. The 2H unholy was even on the hodir fight with all its running around, standing still i could reach 3000 on a single target which i couldnt manage with any of the DW speccs.
So, unfortunately, Dual Wield has been nerfed to death. Big bummer, i really liked the looks of it and the smg spam. I'm gonna stick to the 2H because the difference is to big to ignore.
Thats indeed quite a
Thats indeed quite a difference... Nice numbers though.
Too bad we wont have the haste buff, thats one huge buff for melee DPS :(
So you'll no longer have the
So you'll no longer have the ticklish damage-spam, but now you can relish in the pleasure of Big Numbers.
BIG NUMBERS I tell Ya!
A great improvement I'd say. Now strive for a critpercent of 40%+ and youre in for a fun ride :) .
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Fear is the mindkiller...
I think DW dps is still
I think DW dps is still viable, check this thread, it also links this wws log. It's about unholy, but it IS DW and he IS doing 6k dps :D
That guy is doing some
That guy is doing some impressive dps indeed. I have checked that EJ threat, even got the basis for my specc from it.
I havent done a in depth comparison, in time i will. But for now my first glance at the differences is favoring the 2H specc, which is no drama ofc its still good fun.
Im not giving up tho :D if i find a good excuse for DW i will go back ;)
Think im gonna have a go at
Think im gonna have a go at Tanking again, at least untill 3.2 hits. When it does ill try out the new DW again.
HA I knew you would get
HA I knew you would get jealous at the real men.
(And sweet, I'll get to dee pee es more :))
oh noes now teleute will dps
oh noes now teleute will dps again ?