Comments on: Death Knight Combat Rotations

By: Reaper

Reaper — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:29:47 +0000

Im just wondering if this new patch changes anything, becouse it seems like the unholy class has gotten nerfed so i tried going Frost, i will just have to see……..

By: Zeega

Zeega — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:09:23 +0000

Personally i find Frost to be the best DPS tree, trying all trees.

Atm im short of 2 10 man epics and and pulling off 2.5K DPS in Heroic dungeons and 3k in 10 man raids.

I use the rotation

Icy Touch – Plague strike – Howling Blast -Blood Strike – Blood Strike – Frost Strike – Obliterate

Renew Diseases then same again but with 3 Frost strikes

Cant remember what exactly talents i have but i can generate all 6 runes to be Death runes.

Hope this helps ^^

Gonna try this rotation out posted in the article.

By: Hellbound

Hellbound — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:31:25 +0000

As mentioned above a duel wield frost/unholy spec is currently the best dps, however to utilize this you would realistically need t7 or even t7.5 and epic weapons. Therefore realistically most ppl reading this would be going 2hd, deep unholy. Your rotation would be

PS, IT, BS, BS, SS

SS, SS, SS,
BS, BS, SS, SS

This second part would b your rotation until you see your diseases coming off (this is assuming you have the scourge strike glyph), when diseases come off you would go back to the first line. You would also be popping gargoyle at appropriate times and using up runic power in between cds e.g. keeping Unholy blight up and using death coils for maximum dps.

By: Wiik

Wiik — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:01:29 +0000

I thought this was good, for me I have no experience with a deathknight and this creates a good starting point… so thanks

By: Deepneau

Deepneau — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:12:33 +0000

Enough with the Death Knights? Lets move on to other things. I’m thinking you guys could just expand your articles a bit more and get the last 3 DK articles into one. Don’t get me wrong, I like seeing this stuff, but the same class every week gets a bit dull for those of us who don’t play DK.

By: Vishas

Vishas — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:55:14 +0000

Mm just taking a look at this to see other rotations. Personally, im unholy and have around 2k dps on one target and up to 3k and higher on multiple mobs. This is with a rotation of:

Icy Touch > Blood strike > Blood strikex2 > Scourge strike

which includes the talent to turn blood runes into death runs when blood strike is used. The second rotation is then Scourge Strikex3

I also use glyph of scourge strike, which sometimes refreshes the disease duration.

For AoE i use Icy touch > Plague strike > Pestilence > DaD and a little more runic power adds Locust swarm. Hope this was helpful!

By: Glenno

Glenno — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:39:58 +0000

Americans… – sigh…

By: Wargkin

Wargkin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:09:27 +0000

my death knight is lvl 60…im trying to soak everything up b4 i go any further and these articles may be basic but they sure are useful. if theres one thing i dont utilize well enough its runic power so thx for the kick in the arse.. ill hav to change me rotation around

By: Cooter

Cooter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:33:00 +0000

I really like getting info about rotations. But I also agree with Trixem. I know how to make a rotation. Lithaniel, you are a Domination article writer. Give us some more rotations you think would be good to use to dominate mobs. I’m not into the timing and what glyphs I need. Give me rotation ideas. Thanks for the great DK articles.

By: Bigear

Bigear — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:21:33 +0000

Just because this is obvious information to you doesn’t mean it is useless to others. It is good info to build on for those still learning the class and developing their play style to develop rotations that fit their specific spec.