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Orranis
Why on earth would you not take a 50% increased damage cooldown in a DPS spec?
Sup.
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MrSCH
I've always found that if you have to ask 'could this work', it probably doesn't.
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Raleandris
My ideas are useless compared to yours (//_v)
Any ideas about blood dpsing are useless, to be fair.
Hardly. You can pull respectable numbers as Blood DPS. Top of the line? No. Progression raiding worthy? No. More than enough to have fun with on farm nights or LFR? Absolutely.
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JASP01
Well... My DK is 3/8 H DS, and has two Heroic pieces (Heroic Brackenshell Shoulds and the AMAZING Heroic Experimental Specimen Slicer)-- and he can pull out over 20,000 DPS. In Blood Presence, with Tank gear. So imagine DPS gear. Granted, you'd/I'd likely not be getting Vengeance Stacks; you might have to be creative about that... But still.
I would recommend using Frost Presence by the way. I've used both Unholy and Frost, and with the RP regen you get, plus the fact that you'll have to Death Coil mostly instead of Rune Strike (if not always)... Frost Presence will prove to be better.
That being said, Blood DPS does the most "respectable" numbers in dungeons where you can Heart Strike 3 mobs at once. I suppose on Blackhorn LFR (or Normal just to screw around since it's super easy now), you could do it for the Melee adds and such.
Overall it's not something competitive, but something for fun. It is viable, but just way, way, way subpar. You will be doing damage much lower than you could pretending you know Unholy/Frost spec. But, you can still output pretty decent numbers if you attempt. Give it a try!
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Orranis
Well... My DK is 3/8 H DS, and has two Heroic pieces (Heroic Brackenshell Shoulds and the AMAZING Heroic Experimental Specimen Slicer)-- and he can pull out over 20,000 DPS. In Blood Presence, with Tank gear. So imagine DPS gear. Granted, you'd/I'd likely not be getting Vengeance Stacks; you might have to be creative about that... But still.
Why not? What fight in DS doesn't have some form of AoE damage?
I would recommend using Frost Presence by the way. I've used both Unholy and Frost, and with the RP regen you get, plus the fact that you'll have to Death Coil mostly instead of Rune Strike (if not always)... Frost Presence will prove to be better.
Maybe if you're using a Death Strike rotation, but a Heart Strike rotation will prefer Unholy for the lower GCD (especially during Dancing Rune Weapon) and rune cooldown.
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JASP01
Well... My DK is 3/8 H DS, and has two Heroic pieces (Heroic Brackenshell Shoulds and the AMAZING Heroic Experimental Specimen Slicer)-- and he can pull out over 20,000 DPS. In Blood Presence, with Tank gear. So imagine DPS gear. Granted, you'd/I'd likely not be getting Vengeance Stacks; you might have to be creative about that... But still.
Why not? What fight in DS doesn't have some form of AoE damage?
Morchok: I wouldn't consider the stomps reliable, and H Morchok, I'd be weary about the stomps being enough, I doubt it. Spine is iffy. Blackhorn you have to actively be melee'ing and soaking up barrages. So... It depends.
I would recommend using Frost Presence by the way. I've used both Unholy and Frost, and with the RP regen you get, plus the fact that you'll have to Death Coil mostly instead of Rune Strike (if not always)... Frost Presence will prove to be better.
Maybe if you're using a Death Strike rotation, but a Heart Strike rotation will prefer Unholy for the lower GCD (especially during Dancing Rune Weapon) and rune cooldown.
Makes sense actually.
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Orranis
Well... My DK is 3/8 H DS, and has two Heroic pieces (Heroic Brackenshell Shoulds and the AMAZING Heroic Experimental Specimen Slicer)-- and he can pull out over 20,000 DPS. In Blood Presence, with Tank gear. So imagine DPS gear. Granted, you'd/I'd likely not be getting Vengeance Stacks; you might have to be creative about that... But still.
Why not? What fight in DS doesn't have some form of AoE damage?
Morchok: I wouldn't consider the stomps reliable, and H Morchok, I'd be weary about the stomps being enough, I doubt it. Spine is iffy. Blackhorn you have to actively be melee'ing and soaking up barrages. So... It depends. Blackhorn would more than be made up for by cleaving, and there's no reason you couldn't eat a barrage to gain some AP. On Heroic you should be eating barrages either way, and the second phase has the Shout.
Heroic Stomps would definitely be enough seeing as on would probably cap you and they're frequent enough to now allow to much generation.
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Orranis
People in LFR love ninja pulling then leave, auto-attacking being AFK or just stay AFK the whole fight so even a blood dps spec could work there.
Out of LFR it simply doesn't work.
10$ says I could kill every boss I currently DPS in DS as Blood. If I reforge for it and get some decent RNG with the AoE damage and the cleaving (assuming I'm allowed to) I might pull higher than I do in Frost on Heroic Zon'ozz, the only fight I DPS that is remotely difficult. (I pull in the 93'rd percentile.)
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Problimatic
People in LFR love ninja pulling then leave, auto-attacking being AFK or just stay AFK the whole fight so even a blood dps spec could work there.
Out of LFR it simply doesn't work.
When I am gemmed, enchanted, and geared full tank I do more dps than some of the fail pugs that still down regular madness on my server. It takes more than one slightly gimped dps to not kill normals, and on heroics its still possible, just you would need some high dps companions on some fights to compensate. (Though on others like heroic ultrax blood dps would shine as it would get the ridiculous drw uptime along with lots of vengeance from the aoe and you could likely beat some of your normal dps people.) Blood DPS is just a fun thing people do when bored.
My ideas are useless compared to yours (//_v)
Any ideas about blood dpsing are useless, to be fair.
Hardly. You can pull respectable numbers as Blood DPS. Top of the line? No. Progression raiding worthy? No. More than enough to have fun with on farm nights or LFR? Absolutely.
I guess some people enjoy intentionally gimping themselves.
Frost is a dps spec amirite? Well lets have a look here at some WoL rankings for heroic Ultraxion 10 man. The top frost dk dps for this fight is a very respectable 49799. Now lets look at the blood. the top 3 blood on this fight are all higher than the #1 frost dk with 51931 being the highest. So technically, if you are going frost over blood or unholy on this fight, you are gimping yourself. And I highly doubt you would complain about a dk going frost on that fight.
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