Mekila
08-01-2008, 02:03 PM
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=jiIbx0cb0oZxMcxZbcthx0oz
I tried this spec out yesterday for the first time and found it to be the only spec where I don't feel rune starved. Sustained dps seemed to be way higher than with other specs, yet it lacks any sort of burst damage required for pvp. At level 71 it feels like the max single target dps spec.
Key talents that make this spec work:
Blood rune Mastery: 10% chance on diseased targets for all melee attacks to proc a buff that speeds up your blood rune reactivation time.
Unholy rune Mastery: 20% chance to speed up your Unholy rune reactivation time on every Plague Strike or Degeneration.
Icy Talons: 3/6/9/12/15% haste for 20s when casting Icy Touch.
Nerves of Cold Steel: 1/2/3% to hit w/ 1-h weapons and 5/10/15% extra damage from offhand weapon.
Necrosis: 5/10/15/20/25% extra shadow damage is dealt by your normal weapon attacks.
Rotation in Unholy Presence:
Time Special attack - Runes remaining - Runic Power
00 Icy Touch - BBFUU - 10
01 Plague Strike - BFU - 20
02 Degeneration - BF - 30
03 Blood Strike - F - 42
04 Death Coil - F - 02
05 pause - F - 02
06 pause - BF/BFU - 04
[B]Only Blood Mastery procs
06 Blood Strike - F - 14
07 pause - F - 14
08 Blood strike - F - 24
09 pause - F - 26
10 Repeat from Time 00
Both Blood Mastery and Unholy Procs
06 Plague Strike - F - 14
07 Degeneration - F - 24
08 Blood Strike - F - 34
09 pause - F - 36
10 Icy Touch - F - 46
11 Plague Strike - F - 56
12 Degeneration - F - 68
13 Blood Strike - F - 78
14 Death Coil - F - 38
15 Death Coil - F - 0
16 Repeat from Time 00
This spec feels like you are playing a rogue due to you being able to use almost every GCD rather than having to wait for runes to reactivate. Most of the damage comes from you spamming specials with 30% base haste from talents/unholy aura, disease dot ticks, and NECROSIS.
Necrosis does not do more shadow damage when you crit, it takes the 25% bonus shadow dmg from the base hit and ignores crit modifiers. Say you hit for 500 and crit for 1000 on your autoswing, Necrosis does 125 shadow damage on both hit and crit, making haste rating more desirable than crit rating. Once I noticed this I immediately put on my Howling Fjord quest reward haste plate pieces in place of my Borean Tundra crit heavy quest rewards.
I tried this spec out yesterday for the first time and found it to be the only spec where I don't feel rune starved. Sustained dps seemed to be way higher than with other specs, yet it lacks any sort of burst damage required for pvp. At level 71 it feels like the max single target dps spec.
Key talents that make this spec work:
Blood rune Mastery: 10% chance on diseased targets for all melee attacks to proc a buff that speeds up your blood rune reactivation time.
Unholy rune Mastery: 20% chance to speed up your Unholy rune reactivation time on every Plague Strike or Degeneration.
Icy Talons: 3/6/9/12/15% haste for 20s when casting Icy Touch.
Nerves of Cold Steel: 1/2/3% to hit w/ 1-h weapons and 5/10/15% extra damage from offhand weapon.
Necrosis: 5/10/15/20/25% extra shadow damage is dealt by your normal weapon attacks.
Rotation in Unholy Presence:
Time Special attack - Runes remaining - Runic Power
00 Icy Touch - BBFUU - 10
01 Plague Strike - BFU - 20
02 Degeneration - BF - 30
03 Blood Strike - F - 42
04 Death Coil - F - 02
05 pause - F - 02
06 pause - BF/BFU - 04
[B]Only Blood Mastery procs
06 Blood Strike - F - 14
07 pause - F - 14
08 Blood strike - F - 24
09 pause - F - 26
10 Repeat from Time 00
Both Blood Mastery and Unholy Procs
06 Plague Strike - F - 14
07 Degeneration - F - 24
08 Blood Strike - F - 34
09 pause - F - 36
10 Icy Touch - F - 46
11 Plague Strike - F - 56
12 Degeneration - F - 68
13 Blood Strike - F - 78
14 Death Coil - F - 38
15 Death Coil - F - 0
16 Repeat from Time 00
This spec feels like you are playing a rogue due to you being able to use almost every GCD rather than having to wait for runes to reactivate. Most of the damage comes from you spamming specials with 30% base haste from talents/unholy aura, disease dot ticks, and NECROSIS.
Necrosis does not do more shadow damage when you crit, it takes the 25% bonus shadow dmg from the base hit and ignores crit modifiers. Say you hit for 500 and crit for 1000 on your autoswing, Necrosis does 125 shadow damage on both hit and crit, making haste rating more desirable than crit rating. Once I noticed this I immediately put on my Howling Fjord quest reward haste plate pieces in place of my Borean Tundra crit heavy quest rewards.