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Blood, frost or holy death knight witch is the better dps?
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Pwntiff
Currently, Unholy. Blood is also dedicated tanking.
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Murrdurr
For your future DK related questions.
And I agree, Unholy is the best dps.
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Orranis
I was going to say something about Red Mage's until I saw he said Holy DK's.
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Monday
Holy DK lol.
As it is, Unholy is the current top, but it's getting the nerfbat. I am unsure as to whether it makes Frost better or if it just brings Unholy in line.
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Orranis
As it is, Unholy is the current top, but it's getting the nerfbat. I am unsure as to whether it makes Frost better or if it just brings Unholy in line.
Well, Two-Hand Frost is currently about 12% behind Unholy, so I think it might win out next patch, followed by DW Frost and then Two-hand Unholy.
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AnrDaemon
And everyone took the bait...
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Carukia
Just chiming in on the 2 handed v. DW for frost i tried it on a test dummy and DW was about 1500 dps behind 2 Handed.
Did you take into account the fact that DW and 2H use different gear, different talents, a different presence, likely with some other differences as well? DW was slightly ahead of 2H but 2H got a small buff. They should be almost equal.
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dervasavred
I've NEVER been out-dps'd by an unholy dk. As an experienced Frost dk, I suggest going frost spec. Unholy dps takes a long time to get high, which it does get high, but it takes quite a while. Frost, however, does massive dps all the time, without having to wait a few minutes. But, it still depends on your play style and the rotations you are more comfortable with.
Anecdotal evidence means nothing. Just because YOU have never been beaten does not mean that the spec is worse than yours.
It's the old, "I am a better fisherman than you because I caught a fish THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS big" argument.
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MournyWish
From Elitis Jerks
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Assuming an average iLvl of 359 (normal t11), the order goes something like: 2H Unholy > DW Frost = 2H Frost > DW Unholy, with 2H Unholy being ~2% ahead, DW Frost and 2H Frost being within 0.5% of one another, and DW Unholy being hopelessly behind. For reference's sake, the approximate dps at this gear level is 20k, pending the fight. This is the simulated result, remember, which means it's assuming no AoE, no movement, no fight specific buffs/debuffs, all raid buffs/debuffs and so forth.
In reality, Frost will tend to underperform compared to what it theoretically should be at, partially because it's more heavily affected by RNG, partially because of the rune bug where they skip back half a second, partially because it's more heavily affected by movement, and a handful of other minor factors. Generally speaking, this leads to DW Frost and 2H Frost falling an additional 5% behind on most of the current single target centric fights of the tier, although the two specs are very competitive on AoE-centric fights.
So, whatever does swit you, go for it; you just don't need feel uncomfortable thinking you could do much better using another spec.
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