Daniel Whitcomb at WoW.com has posted a guide to gearing your brand new level 80 DPS Death Knight. The top of the article has links to great guides on speccing for Blood, Frost and Unholy as well as previously published DK gear guides. The rest of the piece looks at the best in slot gear depending on what kind of end game encounters you're running. This guide should be good until Cataclysm class changes drop. Current as of WoW patch 3.3.3.
[DK DPS] Gear guide for new level 80 DPS Death Knights
[Frost] Alternate Frost Death Knight DPS builds
Last week Daniel Whitcomb of WoW.com posted his recommended Frost DPS spec for Death Knights. This week he covers the popular alternate Frost DPS DK talent builds as well as Sigil choices. This guide is current as of WoW Patch 3.3.3.
The basics of the Unholy DPS DK spec
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 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.
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.
WoW Patch 3.3 Death Knight DPS talent guides
Skeleton Jack has posted Death Knight PvE DPS talent guides for Blood, Frost and Unholy specs. He includes recommended rune, sigil and presence choices. This list is current as of Icecrown Patch 3.3.
Patch 3.1 Death Knight DPS and Tanking builds
Daniel Whitcomb at WoW Insider posts his latest Death Knight column covering DPS and tanking builds for Blood, Unholy and Frost builds and a few in between updated for Patch 3.1.
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.
Death Knight 3.1 Raid and Arena specs
Popular DK blogger Skeleton Jack lists his recommendations for Death Knight specs in Patch 3.1. These specifically cover high end raiding and Arena PvP and span all three major specs, Blood, Unholy and Frost. He also breaks it down into DPS and Tank builds.
New Death Knight changes on PTR build #9658
MMO-Champion is running with the latest class changes for the Patch 3.1 PTR build #9658, which should be hitting the PTR servers tonight. Howling Blast has returned to some of its former glory, Frost Presence and Lichborne has been significantly nerfed, while the Blood tree has seen itself buffed slightly. It’s rather clear that Blizzard isn’t done implementing all the changes yet, so there are no doubt more to come.