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Post by
TVRobot
Just wanted to get some feedback on this build (glyphs included). Would you say its good for soloing?
Level 80 Death Knight (10/5/56)
Blood (10 Points)
Butchery - Rank 2/2
Whenever you kill an enemy that grants experience or honor, you generate up to 20 runic power. In addition, you generate 2 runic power per 5 sec while in combat.
Subversion - Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike chance of Blood Strike, Scourge Strike, Heart Strike and Obliterate by 9%, and reduces threat generated while in Blood or Unholy Presence by 25%.
Bladed Armor - Rank 5/5
Increases your attack power by 5 for every 180 armor value you have.
Frost (5 Points)
Toughness - Rank 5/5
Increases your armor value from items by 10% and reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 30%.
Unholy (56 Points)
Vicious Strikes - Rank 2/2
Increases the critical strike chance by 6% and critical strike damage bonus by 30% of your Plague Strike and Scourge Strike.
Virulence - Rank 3/3
Increases your chance to hit with your spells by 3% and reduces the chance that your damage over time diseases can be cured by 30%.
Epidemic - Rank 2/2
Increases the duration of Blood Plague and Frost Fever by 6 sec.
Morbidity - Rank 3/3
Increases the damage and healing of Death Coil by 15% and reduces the cooldown on Death and Decay by 15 sec.
Ravenous Dead - Rank 3/3
Increases your total Strength by 3% and the contribution your Ghouls get from your Strength and Stamina by 60%
Outbreak - Rank 3/3
Increases the damage of Plague Strike by 30% and Scourge Strike by 20%.
Necrosis - Rank 5/5
Your auto attacks deal an additional 20% Shadow damage.
Blood-Caked Blade - Rank 3/3
Your auto attacks have a 30% chance to cause a Blood-Caked Strike, which hits for 25% weapon damage plus 12.5% for each of your diseases on the target.
Night of the Dead - Rank 2/2
Reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 90 sec and the cooldown on Army of the Dead by 4 min. Also reduces the damage your pet takes from creature area of effect attacks by 90%.
Unholy Blight - Rank 1/1
Causes the victims of your Death Coil to be surrounded by a vile swarm of unholy insects, taking 10% of the damage done by the Death Coil over 10 sec.
Impurity - Rank 5/5
Your spells receive an additional 20% benefit from your attack power.
Desecration - Rank 2/2
Your Plague Strikes and Scourge Strikes cause the Desecrated Ground effect. Targets in the area are slowed by 50% by the grasping arms of the dead while standing on the unholy ground. Lasts 20 sec.
Master of Ghouls - Rank 1/1
Reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 60 sec, and the Ghoul summoned by your Raise Dead spell is considered a pet under your control. Unlike normal Death Knight Ghouls, your pet does not have a limited duration.
Desolation - Rank 5/5
Your Blood Strikes cause you to deal 5% additional damage with all attacks for the next 20 sec.
Crypt Fever - Rank 3/3
Your diseases also cause Crypt Fever, which increases disease damage taken by the target by 30%.
Wandering Plague - Rank 3/3
When your diseases damage an enemy, there is a chance equal to your melee critical strike chance that they will cause 100% additional damage to the target and all enemies within 8 yards. Ignores any target under the effect of a spell that is cancelled by taking damage.
Ebon Plaguebringer - Rank 3/3
Your Crypt Fever morphs into Ebon Plague, which increases magic damage taken by 13% in addition to increasing disease damage taken. Improves your critical strike chance with weapons and spells by 3% at all times.
Scourge Strike - Rank 1/1
An unholy strike that deals 50% of weapon damage as Physical damage plus 400. In addition, for each of your diseases on your target, you deal an additional 25% of the Physical damage done as Shadow damage.
Rage of Rivendare - Rank 5/5
Your spells and abilities deal 10% more damage to targets infected with Blood Plague. Also increases your expertise by 5.
Summon Gargoyle - Rank 1/1
A Gargoyle flies into the area and bombards the target with Nature damage modified by the Death Knight's attack power. Persists for 30 sec.
Glyphs
Glyph of Plague Strike (Major Glyph)
Your Plague Strike does 20% additional damage.
Glyph of Scourge Strike (Major Glyph)
Your Scourge Strike increases the duration of your diseases on the target by 3 sec, up to a maximum of 9 additional seconds.
Glyph of the Ghoul (Major Glyph)
Your Ghoul receives an additional 40% of your Strength and 40% of your Stamina.
Glyph of Death's Embrace (Minor Glyph)
Your Death Coil refunds 20 runic power when used to heal.
Glyph of Pestilence (Minor Glyph)
Increases the radius of your Pestilence effect by 5 yards.
Glyph of Raise Dead (Minor Glyph)
Your Raise Dead spell no longer requires a reagent.
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Post by
hellsslayer
Honestly. Blood is king for soloing. The self heals just can't be beat. With your spec, the only self heals you will get are minor ones every one in a while from your blood presence (if you even use that instead of frost)
Post by
TVRobot
so what would you say this is good for if anything?
Post by
hashmel
A
FrosttTap
build is my personal favorite for soloing.
It has superior mitigation to blood, Hungering Cold for the ultimate oh *!@# cd if you get overwhelmed and need to make a tactical or full retreat, exceptional aoe capabilities as trash will be a large portion of your combat, and Acclimation which not only helps on trash but will allow you to solo encounters such as The Prophet Skeram with much less nature resistance pieces taking up loot space.
For content where you just take too much damage blood may be more beneficial largely due to VB, WotN, and ImpDS
Post by
cousx
@ hashmel:
What have you been able to solo with this build?
I'd really like to try out a "frosttap" build simply because I love the frost tree :D
@ OP:
In my opinion (I gladly let someone convince me otherwise) the only viable option is blood!
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0E0qIhIsbMboshhxbzhZcx:hGizMV
This is what I'm using. The main focus is survivability! Though I didn't include Will of the Necropolis.
With the build posted above you have plenty of options to heal (or improve healing):
Rune Tap, Mark of Blood, Imp. Death Strike, Vampiric Blood, Imp. Blood Presence, Lichborne / Death Coil
Post by
Apodictic
It's worth noting that, for instance soloing, bloodworms should
never
be in your build. I enjoyed them while leveling and made the mistake of keeping them for a while. They sound good until you hit bosses that mind-control (couple examples:
Hakkar
,
Skeram
). Said bosses won't mind-control if no other friendly targets, including your ghoul, are alive in the instance.
Just something to point out while you make a solo build. ;)
Post by
TVRobot
gracias for the suggestions
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