As the title says, I got my 4th t10 piece a few days ago. I missed a lot of dailies and 10 man raids but the wait is worth it. The funny thing is I was in such a rush to get my 4th piece which happened to be gloves, just finished doing a 10 man ICC run and picked them up. Next day in 10 man VOA the gloves dropped and that same day in 25 man the 264 version of the gloves dropped. Lesson here is wait on your gloves / legs since VOA drops them :P
Anyway I am doing a lot more damage with the 4 piece and loving every minute of it. Shame to all you Death Knight's who went and bought the sigil or off pieces first. My advice to you all is get the 4 piece asap. Good luck to you all.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
3.3.3 Patch Notes
Mmo Champion
I am very excited and can't wait to see these changes as it will be beneficial to Death Knight's both for tanking and dps. Let's take a look at these changes shall we...
Abomination's Might
Blizzard has changed this proc to be passive just like Hunter's Mark. This will be very useful but of course not stack with the hunter's or enhance shamans buff. We get to keep the 2% strength that this talent gives us too.
Scourge Strike
They changed this attack to do more physical damage and lowered the percent of physical damage done as shadow damage. "The net result should be larger strikes with no diseases present, while maximum damage with all diseases applied to the target should stay the same.
Icy Touch
Will cause a very high amount of threat, o m g. We produce good TPS as it is and this change to Icy Touch is just great. I personally use IT to begin fights and ALWAYS re-apply it when needed. Finally another move that gives us very high threat.
Improved Icy Talon's
This is now passive instead of being a proc which is better but no need to have it if you have a enhance shaman in the raid, unless you are DW dps.
Nerves of Cold Steel
You will now being doing more damage with your offhand, great for DW tanks and / or dps. "8/16/25%, up from 5/10/15%"
Unbreakable Armor
They boosted this talent to get a total of 20% strength compared to the current 10% strength we receive from this talent live.
All in all these changes are great for all Death Knight's and hope you enjoy them as much as I will be when the change is live.
I am very excited and can't wait to see these changes as it will be beneficial to Death Knight's both for tanking and dps. Let's take a look at these changes shall we...
Abomination's Might
Blizzard has changed this proc to be passive just like Hunter's Mark. This will be very useful but of course not stack with the hunter's or enhance shamans buff. We get to keep the 2% strength that this talent gives us too.
Scourge Strike
They changed this attack to do more physical damage and lowered the percent of physical damage done as shadow damage. "The net result should be larger strikes with no diseases present, while maximum damage with all diseases applied to the target should stay the same.
Icy Touch
Will cause a very high amount of threat, o m g. We produce good TPS as it is and this change to Icy Touch is just great. I personally use IT to begin fights and ALWAYS re-apply it when needed. Finally another move that gives us very high threat.
Improved Icy Talon's
This is now passive instead of being a proc which is better but no need to have it if you have a enhance shaman in the raid, unless you are DW dps.
Nerves of Cold Steel
You will now being doing more damage with your offhand, great for DW tanks and / or dps. "8/16/25%, up from 5/10/15%"
Unbreakable Armor
They boosted this talent to get a total of 20% strength compared to the current 10% strength we receive from this talent live.
All in all these changes are great for all Death Knight's and hope you enjoy them as much as I will be when the change is live.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Guild first Shadow's Edge
I want to say grats to Rhetoric for getting the guild's first Shadow's Edge. Finally got Fester down the other night after finally getting together what looks to be a solid raid group. Myself and Rhetoric will be the only two in guild going after Shadowmourne so wish us luck.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tier 10 Tank Gear Change
The title says it all, few things blizz has changed to the t10 tank gear. Gloves and chest pieces get a lot more armor, YES! This change comes with a downside which is less dodge and defense rating. These changes have been made to the 251, 264 and 277 pieces, I personally welcome these changes because armor is very important and we are way over the 540 defense mark. Anyways let me leave you guys with a link to MMO champ.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/
http://www.mmo-champion.com/
Friday, February 5, 2010
Tank changes
* Frost Presence now provides 8% Stamina, up from 6% Stamina.
* Icebound Fortitude now provides 30% base damage reduction, up from 20% damage reduction. For a geared tank with high defense, this translates to 50% damage reduction, up from 40%.
This is from MMO champion and makes all DK tanks very happy, more stamina and damage reduction is awesome. This should (haven't done the math / research) make us the 2nd highest health tanks again right under druids of course. DK's are able to tank all endgame bosses but this just makes life easier, healers will love to actually see a DK tank. All in all this is a great change for us.
* Icebound Fortitude now provides 30% base damage reduction, up from 20% damage reduction. For a geared tank with high defense, this translates to 50% damage reduction, up from 40%.
This is from MMO champion and makes all DK tanks very happy, more stamina and damage reduction is awesome. This should (haven't done the math / research) make us the 2nd highest health tanks again right under druids of course. DK's are able to tank all endgame bosses but this just makes life easier, healers will love to actually see a DK tank. All in all this is a great change for us.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Macros
Sorry about the wait for a new post, just working on a talent tree post that will come soon enough. There are a few macros that are pretty useful for Death Knights. I take no credit for these macros, just what I have found extremely useful and would like to share with you all.
Macros
Gargoyle Macro
#showtooltip Summon Gargoyle
/cast Blood Fury
/use Potion of Speed
/cast Summon Gargoyle
This macro is a beast. I recently changed to orc and man o man the burst damage from this macro is insane. If you aren't a orc just replace Blood Fury with a on use trinket or just completely take off that line from the macro. Reason why we want to pop a CD and speed pot before summoning the gargoyle is because the gargoyle will take a screenshot so to speak with all of your stats and uses it for the whole time he is out.
Rune Strike Macro
#showtooltip (place attack name here)
/cast (place attack name here)
/cast !Rune Strike
Make this macro for every attack you have while tanking. TPS will skyrocket for you as you spend less time trying to hit rune strike to get it que'd up.
Bone Shield Macro
#showtooltip
/cast Blood Tap
/cast Bone Shield
/cancelaura Blood Tap
Pretty useful while dpsing as unholy.
Hysteria Macro
#showtooltip Hysteria
/cast [target=PlayerName] Hysteria
As a tank this can work very well if you already have a lot of threat. If you are going to use this on a dps, aim to use it on a feral cat, warrior or rogue since most of there damage is physical. If you happen to be a blood spec dps do NOT use this on another dps, reason behind it because you want to pump out max dps and will need it to compete on the meters and help down the boss.
Macros
Gargoyle Macro
#showtooltip Summon Gargoyle
/cast Blood Fury
/use Potion of Speed
/cast Summon Gargoyle
This macro is a beast. I recently changed to orc and man o man the burst damage from this macro is insane. If you aren't a orc just replace Blood Fury with a on use trinket or just completely take off that line from the macro. Reason why we want to pop a CD and speed pot before summoning the gargoyle is because the gargoyle will take a screenshot so to speak with all of your stats and uses it for the whole time he is out.
Rune Strike Macro
#showtooltip (place attack name here)
/cast (place attack name here)
/cast !Rune Strike
Make this macro for every attack you have while tanking. TPS will skyrocket for you as you spend less time trying to hit rune strike to get it que'd up.
Bone Shield Macro
#showtooltip
/cast Blood Tap
/cast Bone Shield
/cancelaura Blood Tap
Pretty useful while dpsing as unholy.
Hysteria Macro
#showtooltip Hysteria
/cast [target=PlayerName] Hysteria
As a tank this can work very well if you already have a lot of threat. If you are going to use this on a dps, aim to use it on a feral cat, warrior or rogue since most of there damage is physical. If you happen to be a blood spec dps do NOT use this on another dps, reason behind it because you want to pump out max dps and will need it to compete on the meters and help down the boss.
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