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Best Leveling Spec?
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Spectre27
Anyone have suggestions for a leveling build for a DK who is currently level 63?
Post by
GenXCub
What have you been running so far? I'm partial to Unholy. Here's what I'd look like at 63. Start filling out blood.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#joZZfMhI0cdxcq0csut
Post by
Spectre27
I like Going Blood cause of the efficiency, and i don't have to heal, Frost, with Unbreakable armor, makes me indestructible, and unholy is good because of the dps it gives off along with the pet to tank for you...
I'm currently specced unholy though
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Micia
unholy is good because of the dps it gives off along with the pet to tank for you...
The Ghoul does not tank (besides offtanking an add). If it does, you're not smacking the mob around enough =P
What have you been running so far? I'm partial to Unholy. Here's what I'd look like at 63. Start filling out blood.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#joZZfMhI0cdxcq0csut
Without On A Pale Horse & Necrosis?
The former is godly for levelling as many quests in Northrend send you on quite some trips. If you have patience, you can skip this talent. But I found it extremely helpful for levelling.
Necrosis is just a must-have imo. +20% weapon damage as shadow dmg (thus unmitigated by armor) every auto-attack is not something to ignore. Especially considering you should never be outside melee range to begin with and thus will always be chugging auto-attacks against your enemy (unless you're kiting).
Also, Morbidity just isn't worth it. You won't be using DnD often enough to make it worth taking up 3 points that are better spent elsewhere. And DC isn't a very high damaging spell and nor is it very high on the priority list. As such, doesn't really benefit all that much from a percentage increase in damage.
Personally, I'm following
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jZZfM0Ixfdxcq0csud
atm at 63. Working towards
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jfVMVZZfM0Ixfdxcq0csud
. Ofcourse, at 80 I'll be shuffling around a few points here and there since I won't be levelling anymore and move towards dungeon-based pure DPS/Tank dual spec.
I used to be a Blood fanboi because it adheres to the phrase;
I. Just. Won't. Die.
And although I still believe Blood to be an excellent levelling choice, I now favor Unholy because now the phrase goes as follows;
I. Just. Won't. Die. Because. You're. Already. Dead.
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Post by
Micia
Wrong. Its +20% only to your auto attacks, in raid enviroment necrosis brings only about 4% total damage. While leveling your fights will be short with just a few white swings.
Its not a bad talent, but there are better ones.
Tbh, I don't think it's wrong. But that's probably mostly because I tend to pull at the very least 4-5 mobs whenever possible, allowing for somewhat more protracted fights and a lot more swings.
Wrong again. D'n'D is great to use if you pull more than one mob and its scales great with your stats. Admittedly you won't be using it more than once per fight, but the other part (+15% damage on DC) is a really nice boost: if you are not frost spec, Death coil is your main runic power dump. Buff it and you will see the results.
If I pull more then 1 mob, most of my runic power goes to UB+Gargoyle (90 RP total iirc). By the time I get my second DC off, the mobs tend to be quite dead =P I just don't see it outdoing Necrosis as you'll constantly be auto-attacking.
You yourself stated that you probably won't be using DnD more then once per fight. That throws 50% of the talent out of the window right there. And 15% of a ~1k crit (@lvl63) is a shameful 150 dmg extra on your runic dump. Let's not even discuss non-crits. Imo simply not worth 3 talent points.
And to be perfectly honest, the best part of Necrosis over Morbidity is the fact that it requires no runic power at all. I prefer not to feel pressured into using DC over other skills as not to feel as if I would've wasted points in that talent if I didn't use it (hope that made sense :S). Because let's be honest; do you honestly use DC so often that it's more then a low percentage of your total damage output?
But for the rest its true: ghoul won't tank for you and On the pale horse is really useful when leveling. Unholy works great as a leveling spec since you can AOE grind mobs, but it fails bit on group quests (where blood is simply amazing).
Agreed.
Then again, I have the luxury of dual-talent specs for levelling. So for me it's a win-win. =D
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Post by
Seregon
What have you been running so far? I'm partial to Unholy. Here's what I'd look like at 63. Start filling out blood.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#joZZfMhI0cdxcq0csut
Leveling without On a Pale Horse is bad and you should feel bad!
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Post by
wall91
note that Vendetta sucks, even for levelling, if you don't use diseases while soloing non-elite mobs, just apply IT and PS when you got 50ish% health and pop a death strike =)
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