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visas
It bumps it to 14.5% with improved rune tap, not 55%.
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visas
ghouls will be free-cast now, as far as runes/runic power goes. They dont generate any either. The reasoning was that the cost while summoning out of combat wasnt needed, and in-combat you already need a corpse or corpse dust.
Blood tap isnt an 'item', just an ability that consumes a rune and gives you health. It has a built-in cooldown to balance it (1 minute).
As for the presences... that's not the point, we shouldnt be forced into using blood/frost presence all the time because unholy just sucks, it needs to be a valuable presence in it's own right, offering something that is beneficial enough to turn down 45% armor or +15% damage.
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narrul
hows this for an unholy leveling build, starts at 55
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=jihzeof0ischhz
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visas
hows this for an unholy leveling build, starts at 55
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=jihzeof0ischhz
um... why are you calling it an unholy leveling build when you have zero points in unholy?
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ravenbl4de
im interested in starting a dk once the expansion comes out ....... blood and unholy look like very fun specs. but u was wondering if it is viable to level unholy ? and visas being the most knowledgeable dk which unholy spec would u recommend for someone who is looking into going pretty heavy into the unholy tree for raiding and pvping.
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visas
hmm..
the biggest evidence for unholy as a levelling spec is the video of someone AOE grinding in hellfire as unholy..
she was actually mostly blood spec at that time, only down to corpse explosion in unholy, and that was before Death and Decay was nerfed.
Unholy does seem to be the best tree for aoe purposes though. You've got two aoe spells gained from talents (corpse explosion and unholy blight) that can be used in conjunction with death and decay. All three are considered diseases as well, so they all have a 15% chance per-tick per-target to deal damage to all enemies nearby, which furthers aoe damage.
Frost's only real AoE ability is to use hungering cold + howling blast for a big aoe crit, but the cooldowns on those abilities prevent it from being used as often as an unholy DK would be able to aoe with his spells.
I really hope Unholy keeps (and even gains more) aoe ability as a strength of the tree. Right now it's single-target damage is significantly lower than frost and blood, and Personally I love aoe grinding =P I've done it as both a mage and a prot pally in TBC, and the deathknight will have the best of both classes.
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CloudFish
Since the talent tree on the WoW site is so much different to WoWheads ill just go with original site
Just looking for a bit of help with the build i have made, i am wanting to use if for mainly soloing and instances, but,
not raiding.
Want it to be good DPS with a lot of survivability
Blood/Unholy 51/00/20
Any comments are fine since im a noob when it comes to builds =P
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If i have to pick between DPS or survivability then DPS wins hands down
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visas
frost will have great burst damage, but that's not necessarily a good thing when you're going for pve DPS. You dont want to chain a bunch of burst hits together that cause you to pull aggro.
If you want to do a frost damage build rather than tanking, it should probably be for pvp purposes, I dont think it will be all that effective in pve.
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