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Low DPS; what am I doing wrong?
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combobreaker
When doing PvE, I am managing about 600-650 DPS.
My rotation is usually: Death Grip, Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Blood Strike, Blood Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil (or Unholy Blight) and back to Scourge Strikes, refreshing my death runes as I need to.
I am an unholy build, and the link to my armory is in my signature. Should I be doing more damage, or does this seem right? It seems as though there are some people just a couple levels higher than me who do somewhere around 900 DPS in 5-mans, and they are also death knights with a DPS build.
Maybe my spec is done wrong... I am not sure.
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combobreaker
600 dps? What level are you? You shouldn't worry about your DPS AT ALL until you are level 80.
Level 71. And why shouldn't I? My self-healing depends on how much damage I am doing, and how quickly I can complete quests and how much down-time I experience depends on how often I need to eat. So, increase my damage, lower my down-time, increase my speed in which I level.
My DPS DOES matter.
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Aleanos
First off, your rotation is a bit off. For unholy PS should always come first and you need to include a "runic dump" section after the first SS. Making it look something like this:
PS - IT - BSx2 - SS* - Runic dump
Followed by:
SSx3 - Runic dump
*Now I personally tend to SS before I BS (because the mobs i fight never survive the first SS), so the BS's and the first SS can change place.
Keep in mind that Unholy blight's full duration deals more damage than a DC crit so if the mobs you're fighting will live long enough (or if you're fighting many mobs) it's a good thing to keep UB up at all times.
Now the next and more advanced step to your unholy rotation is DC/UB weaving, but since you're leveling you shouldn't have to worry about it :) But do let me know should you be interested in it (it's mainly for bosses/groups/raids)
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