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Tank with a hint of dps
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bwirum
So, while leveling and a wee bit at 80, I dps'ed some as blood. Was fine for the most part, but I always seemed to enjoy tanking more, so I pretty much haven't dps'ed in months (apart from the solo questing I've been doing, but that's mostly been the daily jc's which I've pretty much done in tank spec and gear).
Now, I'm mostly in the gear I want to have from heroics and badges (I pretty much don't raid), save for a couple of ups. For tanking that is. Now, the other day I figured I'd be well off from a change of pace and decided to wipe my old blood spec and turn it into unholy to try out the only tree I've never really gone into before. Did a couple of quests out and about by myself to get used to where my new and shiny spells were, then off we went into a normal HoR.
Now, I don't have REALLY bad gear, it's mostly lvl 200 blues and epics, the 219 axe from ToC and a couple of other 219 epic pieces iirc. I did a horrendous 1.3k dps over the course of the instance. I did ~2k with blood before I put it on the shelf with the same gear. Worse even, I bought the mirror trinket after that, and got another upgrade or two I'm sure. Is that bound to increase with habit? Is unholy generally more difficult than blood? Is HoR maybe a bad instance for unholy (I'd like you to say yes to this ;-))?
Hmm... anyhow, I'm gonna give it a couple of more tries I guess, but I was just really disappointed in myself at that point... Now I think I'm just looking for assurance that everything's gonna be allright :P
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bwirum
My armory:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Neptulon&n=Edicarne
However, that shows him in tank gear atm, can't get online to swap now, but you can see his dualspec for the talents at least.
Now for rotation, first of all I always have my ghoul up, I do IT-PS-Pest-BB if there's more than 3 mobs, otherwise swap BB for BS-SS and DC for runedumps. I don't think I released my Garg more than twice during the whole instance, I got to get more used to that. I tried to Pest to refresh when my diseases were running off too.
Now that I think back, I don't think I actually used Bone Armor, that would help a miniscule bit of course, but... still.
Another thing that gets me is that the blood build that I used to rack up around 2k with was in no way an optimal dps build, it was the regular leveling solo build I'd used since early 70ies. Very peculiar. I'm going to give it a couple more tries before I give up on it and say it's just not for me, but it's not looking good :P
One problem may be that as a tank you get used to more of a reactionary playstyle, as opposed to keeping within the strict confines of a set rotation, that may not be really good as a dk dpser. I always have half an eye on my rune cd's to see what I can cast next.
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