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Post by
Adamsm
Whatever you want to level as; since it's simple to get the gold for Dual Spec, you can have Blood for Soloing and Unholy or Frost for dungeon running.
Post by
sandreid87
Blood, no dungeon queue time = insane exp / hour. Nuff' said.
Post by
Interest
I'd probably say Blood spec is the best.
Post by
Arksa
Dungeon leveling is not as effective as normal questing. So I would say, it depends on your playstyle. With Blood you will haveno downtime for regenerating, but you won't have that good DPS as in Frost. So I think Frost will be slightly better, because of Death Pact in compination with Raise Dead it's a really good healing source.
I hope you understand my crappy english ;)
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Problimatic
Dungeon leveling is not as effective as normal questing. So I would say, it depends on your playstyle. With Blood you will haveno downtime for regenerating, but you won't have that good DPS as in Frost. So I think Frost will be slightly better, because of Death Pact in compination with Raise Dead it's a really good healing source.
I hope you understand my crappy english ;)
It is until late 70s. In fact its faster if you are a tank or healer with quick queues. My fastest 85 was just under 30 hours /played and a majority of it was dungeons. (Healing in disc = penance = moar dps for faster dungeons.) Blood honestly is best leveling spec due to ability to tank dungeons for quick queues, still do tons of damage, and the fact they can aoe quest (Pull mobs together, and cleave them down while surviving)
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Arksa
hmmm... sure it's a exp-boost, when you have a quick queues... but at 2-5am (or a bit later) you don't have quick queues. In beta I were ~2h faster with my frost build, because i had a insane dps, so I rushed through the mobs, without any problems. And I tried the Blood on my second DK.
Post by
Xamnation
I would have to say Frost because blood dps over the amount of time it takes to level isnt anywhere close to frost overall dps.
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Problimatic
I would have to say Frost because blood dps over the amount of time it takes to level isnt anywhere close to frost overall dps.
Which is why you aoe pull for vengeance and cleave everything down.
Post by
kemppy
i would say go blood. not for ease of leveling but more so when you max lvl you have good tank gear already and know what you are doing so you can jump right in
Post by
QuickBASIC
Unholy maybe (it's more fun than frost/blood) /cowers
Post by
Adamsm
Unholy maybe (it's more fun than frost/blood) /cowers
I agree, far more fun....but its understandable that some can't pick it up at first heh, since it's the most micromanaged one.
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Post by
QuickBASIC
Unholy maybe (it's more fun than frost/blood) /cowers
I agree, far more fun....but its understandable that some can't pick it up at first heh, since it's the most micromanaged one.
Definitely more micro-management for Unholy... managing your pet stacks and making sure you have enough runic power as soon as
Dark Transformation
wears off, so you can pop it again makes Unholy much more fun then waiting for runes in Frost. You might not do as much damage as frost or blood at first, but when you learn how to manage your pet it's definitely comperable... especially if you're an
Orc
for
, although less so now that it's only 2%.
Post by
Problimatic
waiting for runes in Frost..
..... Umm frost has next to no downtime. With runic corruption or runic empowerment spec just using frost strike will give you virtually no downtime unless you get REALLY unlucky with procs or just don't manage your RP and runes properly. Unholy just doesn't have the huge crits and being a constant killing machine factor of frost or the ability to just cleave all the mobs down that blood has. I might be biased a bit since unholy is my least favorite dk spec, though I honestly can't think of any real benefit to choosing unholy over frost or blood for leveling. Sure there are times where it is the best raiding spec for dps, however that doesn't exactly translate into low health mob situations that you encounter while questing.
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QuickBASIC
I'm a bit biased against Frost myself... I remember clunking through the first 10-15 levels of it wondering when it was going to stop feeling so slow/unmanagable... swtiched to Unholy and never looked back.
Lacking the critty-ness of Frost, isn't much of a big deal for Unholy for me, when I can dump a whole bar of Runic power into Death Coils on someone and have my pet eat them alive when I use Dark Transformation.
Questing on an Unholy DK, you can play a little loose with your pulls and put diseases on a target and move to the next while your pet finishes them off (Especially now with
... you can pull tons of stuff at a time dot it up and keep running to the next mobs.
It really just comes down to a matter of preference.
Post by
Adamsm
I've always found Frost to be the worst spec to me personally; been Unholy and Blood since the DK's first came out.
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