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DK for farming/grinding?
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Post by
Katalliaan
I intend to get my death knight to 80, and then start to use him for farming. What would be a decent spec to use, in order to reduce downtime while still keeping the time it takes to kill a mob down?
Post by
Alathea
Well all of the DK specs have decent survivability with the appropriate use of
Death Strike
and the mitigation abilities, but if you are AoE farming then I would suggest Unholy.
You get a lot off added disease damage and aoe. With the changes to Heart Strike, making it more of a semi-cleave, and Howling blast, no cooldown, you'll be able to farm effectively with Blood and Frost as well. However, I would still recomend Unholy for the mitigation, added diseases (which makes for stronger Death Strikes), extra AoE, and permanent pet.
This
post
has all the information on different specs and such. Choose one you like that fits your play style and happy farming!
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Post by
Kurtosis
For farming, Unholy for
On a Pale Horse
. All the trees are good at killing stuff fast, but only UH will get you from node to node or mob group to mob group faster than every other class in the game, even
Ret Pallies
and
BM hunters
. It also decreases your farming time (moreso for mine/herb than skinning).
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Post by
skribs
I wouldn't recommend frost, because frost offers the least amount of self-heals, which are very helpful when reducing down-time while grinding/farming.
Blood has the most self-heals, but unholy has some (e.g. extra disease making death strike heal 25% more), as well as other things to reduce down time (on a pale horse, UA lets you use BP and still get run speed), not to mention a lot more AoE than blood.
I'm unholy right now, and I find my spec farms great, tanks great, and DPSes great. It'd probably PvP okay if I was getting into fair fights (e.g. not having 2 mages and a hunter open up on me in a 3 vs 1), although it's not really designed that well for PvP.
IMO, in terms of versatility, the trees go Unholy > Frost > Blood. They all let you DPS, but blood doesn't offer as much for AoE, tanking, or mobility/control in PvP, and frost doesn't offer as much for self-heals or reducing down time.
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