[Death Knight] radi's Blood DK

[radek]

My first farming character was Death Knight. I choose blood spec because it's less gear dependence than Unholy. Since nerfs and buffs Blood Death Knights become so far balanced. So here's my guide for blood DK.

1. Overall look
Advantages:
+ Selfhealing
+ Good DPS

Disadvantages:
- No ghoul support ( at least permanent ghoul )
- No additional mount speed

2. Talent tree, glyphs

56/3/12 Blood build
Talent tree link:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/talent-calc...000000000000002302003020000000000000000000000
This build doesn't really qualify to play PvE with it. I didn't put points into Hysteria and Dancing Rune Weapon because it's useless. Hysteria does dmg to DK and probably you'll never have enough runic power to cast DRW.

But if you really think that Hysteria and DRW is that what you need, here's a second build:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/talent-calc...000000000000002302003000000000000000000000000

Glyphs
Major:
- Glyph of Death Strike - higher damage with Death Strike
- Glyph of Death Grip - your DG cooldown will be ready for every new fight.
- Glyph of Icy Touch - more damage

Minor:
- Glyph of Raise Dead
- Glyph of Horn of Winter
- Glyph of Blood Tap

3. Macros and bar setup

3.1 Macros
Mount macro

/use Crystallized Life
/use Crystallized Earth
/use Crystallized Shadow
/use Crystallized Air
/use Crystallized Fire
/use Crystallized Water
/cast path of frost
/cast Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade

Start attack macro - Helpful when mob is a caster also looks more 'human' versus other players who attack you from distance.

#Showtooltip
/cast Mark of Blood
/cast Death Grip
/start attack

Additional info: You can add here racials like Blood fury. Also if you are using second build with Hysteria add /cast Hysteria here

1 sec Attack macro - Fight sequence.

#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=combat Plague Strike, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Death Strike, Death Coil

Additional info: If you are using second build with DRW add Dancing Rune Weapon instead of Death Coil at end of the sequence.

3.2 Bar setup
Action bar 3
Button 1 Mount Macro
Button 2 Empty or Gas cloud sucking ( If you are Engineer ofc )
Button 3 Food ( I don't use any )
Button 4 Drink ( Useless )
Button 5 Rune Tap ( Heals almost to full after ressurection )
Button 6 Start attack Macro
Button 7 Icy Touch
Button 8 1 sec Attack Macro
Button 9 Rune Tap
Button 10 You can put here whatever you want. I have here Lifeblood since I don't use any food on my DK. This may be helpfull when you get some fall damage or something.

4. The end
All feedback, negative or positive, is welcome. You can only help make this guide better. If you find any bugs, report them to me and I'll figure out how to improve it.
Check also my Unholy Guide http://www.buddyforum.de/showthread.php?233-[Death-Knight]-radi-s-Unholy-DK
Have fun

4. History

31/01/2010 - ver 1.0

 

[Xray]

Good Guide

 

[wagstorm]

..

Start attack macro - Helpful when mob is a caster also looks more 'human' versus other players who attack you from distance.

#Showtooltip
/cast Mark of Blood
/cast Death Grip
/start attack

Thank you very much, just a note tot the quote above; need to be a small S at #Showtooltip so it's #showtooltip - else it won't show But thanks!

 

[anonuzer1]

Pretty fun. As we are all aware, Gatherbuddy is not optimal for pvp type encounters. However, I just watched my DK bot kill another 80 non botted DK in Wintergrasp. Was pretty funny to watch.