Unholy Death Knight - Dps Guide 4.3 (PvE)

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[Solno]

0:50 talents
1:45 enchants
2:45 Gems
3:45 reforging
4:45 DPS rotation + other usefull spells

[NICKD]

one of the best videos on unholy DKs ive seen, thanks for the help

[Lightfalls]

As soon as I tried Unholy spec, I could not go back and change to Frost. Thanks for the guide, it really helped!

[DravenCarey]

@Jevagen the only reason i only discussed DC is because thats the ability you wanted to bring up. that aside, look at my origional posts about the first set of testing (when i had this stat priority: hit>exp>haste>mastery>crit) where my crit damage was only 5-6% of my damage total. it was incredibly marginal and meager.

[Haxxardax]

Heres hoping youre still active! Since Cata Classic is around the corner and the pre-patch just released Ive been scouring the web for guides like these, but none answer my question:

At the start of a pull, do you use Gargoyle before Dark Transformation to line it up with pre-pots and trinket procs, or is DT priority?

[dudestick]

Hello mate I was wondering if u keep using death coil while ur pet is at Dark transformation. BTW it was the best unholy guide so far :)

[memedoni]

Cool guide bro :D

So is the frost or unholy better now ?

[ooandy]

Awesome! >:D Sounds cool and all but do you think you could make a DW frost guide too please? I liked your Unholy dps, and I dont see many pull that off, but a frost guide please :D

[DravenCarey]

@DravenCarey21 other than that, it was short and simple, it gave a good overview, and your voice is alot better than mine =D but despite my criticisms and prolly a somewhat negative attitude (some guides seem incomplete to me and can lead ppl in the wrong direction) thank you for ur effort in putting this guide together and taking the time to produce something for the community.

[XboxEliteHacker]

Holy shit. You should read ebooks. Yours voice is perfect.

[Jevagen]

@DravenCarey21 It's good to know that people are interested in the actual work. To be brief...

1.) I do alot of research and reading (glyphs, talents, abilities, stats, etc.) I do MULTIPLE tests on the training dummies with recount. Guild members provide extensive data and i spend alot of gold reforging. Raiding helps determine where you stand with your dps somewhat.

2.) It's basically Crit (dmg X2 on all abilities and pet dmg) VS. Mastery (% increase of only shadow dmg)

[gohelleva]

this may sound weird but, i like this guy's voice

[Solno]

use blood tap to make from your blood a death rune, use scourge strike on that one, ur the death and frost for festering(if you need extension on diseases) else you will use your horn of winter and use scourge on both the deathrunes you have left, then you will wait for the runes to activate again and use festering strikes, hope its a bit clear

[DravenCarey]

hey, you've made a pretty good guide but there are some things i find questionable (and i could totally be wrong). here they are:

1.) where did you get your info? was it all produced after hours of slaving over a hot target dummy/WoL reports/personal raids? or was it derived from a popular site like EJ?
2.) why do u value crit over mastery when most DK's scourge strike shadow damage, as well as your diseases and DnD, (which are directly influenced by mastery) are near the top of their recounts?

[whatanerd]

This video took me from 20k dps in TB to about 32k in pvp gear only. Great vid keep them coming! :)

[MrZombicore]

@420FreeLife hes spec'd into a talent that increases the dmg by 30%, and the dmg/healing of deathcoil by 15%, so it helps the dps

[DravenCarey]

@Jevagen well lets actually look at this. my toon is now reforged in favor of mastery (i tested it and it does more dps by 400-1k over haste) HOWEVER before making that reforging difference i did some testing and took some screenshots. here is what i've got:

Death Coil Damage:
Non-Crit:10, 029 min/12, 001 average/16, 867 max --- 83 / 96.5%
Crit: 20, 962 min/23, 160 average/25, 133 max --- 3 / 3.5%

I had a total of 86 death coils, 3 of them crit. So take the 3 that crit and multiply it by

[Destruktorz]

Best guide I've seen for quite a while. Subbed.

[wknight]

@Jevagen very cool. At 3:05 in the video, you mention some socket bonuses that I don't i've ever seen. I guess it's just a preference thing though because I go for 99% of socket bonuses.

[DravenCarey]

@1994joris my point is this: the information he's giving out (about crit>mastery>exp) is false. he prolly heard it from someone else or read it on EJ and neglected to effectively analyze it and process the thought behind it. he then put that information into a guide that is sub-par at best. he showed us how well he can burst the dummy (thats impressive...) and a very quick overview of some of the minorest things about the class. i have a problem with that, especially when he cant back