Daniel Whitcomb of WoW.com continues his series of beginner guides for Death Knight specs, this time covering the Unholy DPS spec. He covers the strengths and weaknesses of the spec, reviews the recommended talent build, lists the stats to look for on gear, and includes leveling advice, best dps rotation, glyphs, gems and enchants.
The basics of the Unholy DPS DK spec
The basics of the Blood DPS DK spec
Daniel Whitcomb of WoW.com has posted a basics guide for Blood spec Death Knights with an emphasis on DPS. His Blood 101 piece covers the pros and cons of the spec, what stats to look for in gear, talent builds and leveling, damage rotations, glyphs, enchants and gems.
Death Knight Blood spec for best single target dps
The Death Knight Tactics blog has a guide to arguably the best single target dps spec, Blood. The arguable part comes into play since theoretically Blood should be tops, but in application Unholy is currently coming out slightly ahead. This may change in the future. The post includes glyphs, rotations and analysis.
AoE DPS spec for Unholy Death Knights
The Death Knight Tactics blog has a guide to AoE DPS for Unholy DK's that includes suggested rotations, glyphs, strengths and weaknesses. The guide doesn't have tooltips active so you'll have to cross reference the icons used to explain rotation.
DPS guide for Frost Spec Death Knights
Fulguralis at the Killing 'em Slowly blog has posted a DPS guide for Frost Death Knights. He goes over spec, glyphs, rotation and gear stat priority. This guide touches on raid spec as well.
3.1 Death Knight DPS builds, glyphs and rotations
The gnomeDK blog is at it again, this time with 3.1 Death Knight DPS builds, glyphs and recommended rotations distilled from the hardcore Elitist Jerk’s forums. The Unholy, Blood and Frost builds are all based on wielding two-handed weapons.
Comprehensive Best in Slot Listing
Skeleton Jack has continued his excellent listing of best in slot items for Death Knight, this time listing off the top 10 best in slot items for nearly every conceivable combination of gear. The list is one of the best one’s that I’ve seen on the internet, and it’s too bad other classes don’t have such a greatly compiled resource.
Skeleton Jack answers questions on Glyphs, DK weapons, leveling builds and more
Skeleton Jack reached deep into his reader mail bag and came out with a metric ton of questions and answers covering a myriad of Death Knight topics. Just a few of the subjects he touches upon include:
- DK Normalized damage
- DK Leveling builds
- New DK spec ideas
- Best weapon for a DK
He also links to his Death Knight Best In Slot on-going project which is worth checking out.
Undocumented Death Knight changes and Glyph analysis on Patch 3.1 on PTR
WoW Insider’s Eliah Hecht looks further into the Patch 3.1 notes on the PTR to analyze the unannounced changes as well as explore the new and changed Death Knight Glyphs introduced.